Today’s post is more or less inspired by the recent Mondo poster releases. You got to love this company and their stable of artists who just turn out some amazing prints like today’s:
Now I am a buyer of all things Mondo and I do have a certain fondness for this movie, along with the Corey’s and Sutherland who made a killer vampire movie. This print though, doesn’t scream The Lost Boys, mainly cause of the bat. While excellent, I was drooling over Phantom City Creative’s secondary print, which I am currently bidding on Ebay for:
Now that is what I call a perfect poster that reflects the pure 80s feel of this movie. The Lost Boys though will always conjure up images of one thing in particular for me. One thing that defines this vampire movie as one of the best out there. Sure it could be the Goonies like feel amongst the vampire slayers, the gritty, punk aesthetic the vampires have or the sheer insanity of the violence and ensuing battle that happens near the end of the movie.
One iconic image.
In this hit ’80s hybrid of the horror movie and the teen flick, a single mom and her two sons become involved with a pack of vampires when they move into an offbeat Northern California town. Lucy (Dianne Wiest) and her sons, Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim), move to Santa Carla to live with Lucy’s lovable but curmudgeonly father (Barnard Hughes). Lucy gets a job from video-store owner Max (Edward Herrmann), then begins dating him, while Sam hangs out with Edward and Alan Frog (Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander), a pair of vampire-obsessed comic-shop clerks. Soon Michael falls in with some actual vampires after becoming enamored of one of their victims: Star (Jami Gertz), a gypsy-like vixen who is trying to hold on to her humanity even though vampire leader David (Kiefer Sutherland) wants to play Peter Pan to her Wendy. When Michael visits the cavernous hangout of David and his cronies and unwittingly drinks from a wine bottle full of vampiric blood, he becomes an unwilling member of the bloodsucker biker gang. Soon, it’s up to Sam and the Frog brothers to destroy David and his ilk without killing Michael and Star. Shot on location in the coastal California town of Santa Cruz and directed by Hollywood pro Joel Schumacher, The Lost Boys became a pop-culture phenomenon thanks to its attractive young stars, offbeat soundtrack, and hip, clever marketing campaign. The film’s tagline — “Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire.” ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
SAX MAN BITCHES!
LOOK AT HIM AND HIS MACHISMO
He was so iconic that they even brought him back for that horrific sequel or whatever they called it.
Time hasn’t been kind. He will still be the Sax Man to me.
Also this is how the clip above should have played out in the movie. Thank god for Youtube and people with too much time on their hands.
