Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys is messy. Painful. Unhinged.
From Blade to Buffy, we’ve always needed fearless soldiers to battle creatures of the night.
It has a handful of gratifying moments and nuances you don’t expect from the genre, starting with girls who eat and curse like boys.
It won’t convince Crank: High Voltage’s naysayers, but for those on the film’s insane wavelength, it’s a worthy DVD package.
The film is a pure narcotized rush of blistering action, odious stereotypes, and shock-for-shock's-sake nastiness.