That the film works so well is a testament to Schumacher’s pop sensibilities, his slick production design and an iconic soundtrack — Echo & the Bunnymen’s version of People Are Strange is a majestic way to begin a movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2022

The Lost Boys, in its artless way, asks us to consider that being for ever young isn't a sweet Edwardian evocation of innocence, but a vision of pure hell, like vampirism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2020

Schumacher falls far short of the talent for pop wit that Joe Dante showed in Gremlins and The Howling.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 21, 2014

The Lost Boys, which attempts to be funny while preserving the shock value of the vampire legend, aims somewhat higher... and misses.

| Jan 21, 2014

It's often sloppy and thinly plotted, but this is, after all, a summer movie, and if it's nothing to really sink your fangs into, it's often very funny.

Full Review | Jan 21, 2014

There's always room for fancy trash, and this movie -- about a gang of punk vampires terrorizing the new kids in town -- seems capable of providing some. Then the characters open their mouths.

| Jan 21, 2014

Schumacher`s sputtering, short-term approach to the material is a disappointment, because there's something in it that ought to make for a good movie, and from time to time makes The Lost Boys good enough.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 21, 2014

A horrifically dreadful vampire teensploitation entry.

| Mar 24, 2009

Killing bloodsuckers was enough to make Fright Night a hit, and it will probably do the same for the crass, obvious Lost Boys.

| Feb 21, 2007

Directed with a cavalier disregard for intelligibility, this has to be one of the most anaemic vampire flicks ever made.

| Feb 9, 2006

Did I mention both Coreys are in it?

| May 4, 2005

A supremely watchable example of something the '80s did right.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2004

It laughs at the form it embraces, adds a rock-and-roll soundtrack and, if you share its serious-satiric attitude, manages to be very funny.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2004

Arguably Joel Schumacher's finest film.

| Mar 10, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2002

An exhilarating hybrid of horror and suburban comedy.

| Jan 1, 2000

It starts slow, but finishes fast with some clever plot twists. In the end, all is not lost with these boys.

| Jan 1, 2000

When everything is all over, there's nothing to leave the theater with -- no real horrors, no real dread, no real imagination -- just technique at the service of formula.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000