History YMMV / TheLostBoys

** "Cry Little Sister"

** A little TruthInTelevision here, as Schumacher is gay, and vampires were (and still are) commonly used to represent the AIDS crisis that was especially prominent among the gay community in the 80's. There's actually a few articles floating around on homoerotic subtext in the movie - you can read one [[http://www.horror-movies.ca/2014/09/new-perspective-lost-boys-homosexual-film/ here]].

** [[Film/BillAndTed Bill S. Preston Esq.]] is one of his {{mooks}}.

* DracoInLeatherPants: The boys themselves, but especially David.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Michael randomly lifting weights, the vamps flirting with the girl at the video shop, Marco holding the chopsticks between his teeth as he hands out the Chinese food, and Grandpa making a spooked face at Max when he arrives for dinner.

** ''Film/TheLostBoys: The Beginning'': In the script written for the unproduced prequel of the original film, [[VampireMonarch Vlad Tepsch]] is a legendary vampire king known as "[[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler The Impaler]]" for how he dispatches his victims. First arriving in America while butchering the crew of a ship he's aboard, after being mugged Vlad chases down the Lost Boys and begins to slowly turn them into vampires. Seeming to have their best interests at heart, Vlad helps make the boys rich and acquire ownership of a extravagant hotel, while killing random people all around him, from hotel guests, to a gang, to a unit of Marines. Later, Vlad reveals his intent to use the coastline of San Fransisco to create armies of vampires and a worldwide empire for himself to rule over. When David tries to leave him, Vlad forcibly turns his girlfriend Anastasia Rostov into a vampire as a "gift", causing the girl to [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]] out of terror, and makes it clear to the boys that he sees them as mere soldiers he can easily throw away.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Cry Little Sister"
** The ENTIRE soundtrack.
** Music/EchoAndTheBunnymen's cover of "People Are Strange" by Music/TheDoors certainly stands out.

** Music/EchoAndTheBunnymen's cover of "People Are Strange" certainly stands out.

* BetterThanCanon: The scenario set-up in the alternate stingers to "The Tribe" - featuring [[spoiler:Sam arriving in Lunar Bay to warn Edgar that a head vampire was heading there to settle an old score with the two of them; said vampire being Edgar's brother Alan]] - was considered a far more interesting prospect by fans than the [[spoiler:Edgar vs. Vampire!Sam]] stinger that was used in the film.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Sam and Michael make jokes about marijuana and crack cocaine, which are less funny after Corey Haim became a drug addict and ultimately died prematurely.

** Joel Schumacher directing a movie about creatures with a [[Film/BatmanForever bat]] [[Film/BatmanAndRobin motif]]. Especially since Sam walks into a comic book store looking for Batman comics. This also doubles as a CreatorThumbprint, as in that same scene, Sam asks for Superman comics as well (Executive Producer Richard Donner worked on the first two Superman movies).

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The fashions are aggressively 1980s. The Lost Boys have hair metal-inspired costumes, and Michael gets one ear pierced with a dangling earring in an early scene. Sam also wears a gold stud in one ear and some incredibly colorful, baggy shirts that even other character remark are gaudy.
** Lucy gets a job working at a video store renting out VHS cassettes. Not much job security there.
** There's a conversation about TV Guide, a relic of the days when you needed a published programming listings to know what was going to be on television. Sam is confused by Grandpa reading it, since he doesn't have a television, making it useless. Modern TV Guide is more like a magazine with articles and would actually be more useful for Grandpa's intended use.
** Tim Capello's shirtless saxophone performance is treated as the hip sound of teens and headbangers.

** A little TruthInTelevision here, as Schumacher is gay, and vampires were (and still are) commonly used to represent the AIDS crisis that was especially prominent among the gay community in the 80's. There's actually a few articles floating around on homoerotic subtext in the movie - you can read one [[www.horror-movies.ca/2014/09/new-perspective-lost-boys-homosexual-film/ here]].

* {{Squick}}: The maggots and worms. Doubly so when WordOfGod instructs budding filmmakers that maggots tend to just lie there. How to get them to wriggle? Squeeze lemon juice on them.

** In the comic ''The Lost Girl'', by Tim Seeley et al., taking place shortly after the first film, [[GreaterScopeVillain Agnes Underwood]] is a [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingly-sweet]] [[EvilOldFolks old lady]] in Santa Carla, but is in fact the head vampire behind the Blood Belles and the secret mastermind of their operations. Agnes recruits the Blood Bells by preying on the needs of lost and lonely girls before turning them into vampires. With Agnes operating behind the scenes, the Blood Belles kill off the hunters of Santa Carla, including Grandpa Emerson, abduct and turn multiple [[WouldHurtAChild children]], and plot to awaken ancient vampires (Tlahuelpuchi) to conquer the world and bring about the age of vampires. Agnes also had Star placed in Santa Carla to infiltrate the Lost Boys to make a power play of her own. What makes Agnes worse is that all these things are a mere means to a [[EvilIsPetty petty]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish end]]: for centuries Agnes sought the pure blood of the mother vampires to [[ImmortalityImmorality restore her youth]]. Agnes also takes Lucy Emerson and Laddie hostage under the threat of death, as well as kills and turns the residents and orderlies as a local retirement home. Besides having no loyalty to the Tlahuelpuchi, Agnes dismisses the deaths of the Blood Belles by simply saying [[WeHaveReserves she can make more]], and tries to force Star to test the pure blood to see if it will kill her or make her lose her humanity, calling it a win-win scenario.

** Joel Schumacher directing a movie about creatures with a [[Film/BatmanForever bat]] [[Film/BatmanAndRobin motif]]. Especially since Sam walks into a comic book store looking for Batman comics.

** Joel Schumacher directing a movie about creatures with a [[Film/BatmanForever bat]] [[Film/BatmanAndRobin motif]]. Especially since Corey Haim's character walks into a comic book store looking for Batman comics.
** Two members of Tony's posse are named [[WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil Star and Marco]].

** Joel Schumacher directing a movie about creatures with a [[Film/BatmanForever bat]] [[Film/BatmanAndRobin motif]].

** The [[Franchise/LawAndOrder Manhattan District Attorney]] is dating one of the narrators for TheHistoryChannel.

** In the comic ''The Lost Girl'', by Tim Seeley et al., taking place shortly after the first film, [[GreaterScopeVillain Agnes Underwood]] is a [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingly-sweet]] [[EvilOldFolks old lady]] in Santa Carla, but is in fact the head vampire behind the Blood Belles and the secret mastermind of their operations. Agnes recruits the Blood Bells by preying on the needs of lost and lonely girls before turning them into vampires. With Agnes operating behind the scenes, the Blood Belles kill off the hunters of Santa Carla, including Grandpa Emerson, abduct and turn multiple [[WouldHurtAChild children]], and plot to awaken ancient vampires (Tlahuelpuchi) to conquer the world and bring about the age of vampires. Agnes also had Star placed in Santa Carla to infiltrate the Lost Boys to make a power play of her own. What makes Agnes worse is that all these things are a mere means to a [[EvilIsPetty petty]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish end]]: for centuries Agnes sought the pure blood of the mother vampires to [[ImmortalityImmorality restore her youth. Agnes also takes Lucy Emerson and Laddie hostage under the threat of death, as well as kills and turns the residents and orderlies as a local retirement home. Besides having no loyalty to the Tlahuelpuchi, Agnes dismisses the deaths of the Blood Belles by simply saying [[WeHaveReserves she can make more]], and tries to force Star to test the pure blood to see if it will kill her or make her lose her humanity, calling it a win-win scenario.

* CompleteMonster: Peter from ''The Thirst'' is known publicly as the brother of vampire novelist Gwen Lieber but is secretly is the Alpha Vampire and her alleged lover. He is seemingly held hostage by DJ X, who used Peter's blood to make a drug to create vampires. However, once DJ X was killed, Peter took control of the consumers, nearly sending them into a feeding frenzy. Upon being revealed as the Alpha Vampire, we are treated to a flashback of him leading a vampire attack of a village. He offered Gwen a chance to become a vampire if she brings him Edgar and Alan Frog, and once she does the task, he kills her. He reveals that his true intentions all along were to turn Edgar and Alan into vampires themselves, so they can be his personal hitmen and cull the expanding vampire race, so there can be more people to feed on. Since Alan was already transforming, Peter uses his partial control over Alan to force him to fight Edgar.

* HilariousInHindsight: Take a look at the drying vampire gore on the heroes' clothes when they flee the hotel. It's strangely...[[Literature/{{Twilight}} sparkly]].
** [[TwentyFour Jack Bauer]] Playing a vampire was funny enough to think as it is, but then ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' took it to the next level by having Dracula replace Jack Bauer as the lead.

** [[BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure Bill S. Preston Esq.]] is one of his {{mooks}}.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Given that it set the tone for ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''TrueBlood'', viewers forget how different this was when it first came out.

** The [[LawAndOrder Manhattan District Attorney]] is dating one of the narrators for TheHistoryChannel.

* MemeticMutation: All the god damn vampires!

** A little TruthInTelevision here, as Schumacher is gay, and vampires were (and still are) commonly used to represent the AIDS crisis that was especially prominent among the gay community in the 80's. There's actually a few articles floating around on homoerotic subtext in the movie - you can read one [[{{www.horror-movies.ca/2014/09/new-perspective-lost-boys-homosexual-film/}} here]].

* FunnyBackgroundMoment: Michael randomly lifting weights, the vamps flirting with the girl at the video shop, Marco holding the chopsticks between his teeth as he hands out the Chinese food, and Grandpa making a spooked face at Max when he arrives for dinner.

** In ''The Thrist'', [[spoiler:DJ X is set-up as the [[BigBad Alpha Vampire]], it's revealed towards the end that it's really Peter Lieber, and most of the film was an EvilPlan so he could turn Edgar into his personal hitman]].
* {{Squick}}: The maggots and worms. Doubly so when WordOfGod instructs budding filmmakers that maggots tend to just lie there. How to get the to wriggle? Squeeze lemon juice on them.

* HoYay: David and Michael. Just...David and Michael. David pretty much seduces him in a strange blood drinking sequence, half hypnotises him with continuous usage of his name, ignores the pretty love interest in favor of Michael, and spends the whole movie trying desperately to get Michael to see things his way. Never mind David's insistence [[spoiler: leads to him dropping his guard, therefore leading to his death... he never makes a move to kill Michael, even when his victim blindly refuses to become a full vampire. David actually looks genuinely hurt by this rejection.]] The amount of eyesex and shimmering sexual tension in this film concerning these two is just amazing. This could translate to FoeYay as well.