History Film / TheLostBoys

* JumpScare: Shane's gang announce their vampire status to a group of unsuspecting humans jokingly around a campfire, and then all hell breaks loose the second time they say it.

* ShowerOfLove: Chris shares one with a female party-goer before realizing something is wrong with Nicole and leaves to check on her.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: The film both plays this straight and subverts it. Out of all of the vampires, Star is the only one who never puts on her GameFace, and she is a good character. However, Michael and Laddie do show their vampire faces, but they're not bad either, and Michael and the Lost Boys are all easy on the eyes when not in GameFace.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: The film both plays this straight and subverts it. Out of all of the vampires, Star is the only one who never puts on her GameFace, and she is a good character. However, Michael and Laddie do show their vampire faces, but they're not bad either, and the Lost Boys are all easy on the eyes when not in GameFace.

A TV series adaptation was in the works at Creator/TheCW for the 2018 season, but has wallowed in DevelopmentHell. Helmed by [[Series/VeronicaMars Rob]] [[Series/{{iZombie}} Thomas]], it would be an anthology series with each season set during a different decade. As of 2024, a [[https://deadline.com/2024/01/the-lost-boys-musical-1235803592/ musical adaptation]] is in the works.

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* FeralVampires: One of the [[TropeMaker Trope Makers]]. Instead of being [[VampiresAreRich glamorous aristocrats]], the vampires are portrayed as nomadic hoodlums.

--> '''David:''' In 1906, when the big one hit San Francisco, the ground opened up, and this place took a header, right into the crack. So now it’s ours.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Along with ''Film/NearDark'', this movie rewrote the book on vampires, in the same way ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' and ''Film/TheHowling1981'' (also both in the same year) rewrote the book on werewolves. Notably, while they have many of the folkloric strengths and weaknesses (even sleeping in native soil is alluded to, with the vampires' lair described as "one big coffin"), the one they play with the most is the "invitation". [[spoiler: Vampires ''can'' enter a residence uninvited, but if you ''do'' invite them, you lose all power over them while inside, including attempting to exploit any weaknesses vampires naturally have such as the lack of reflection.]]

--> '''Max:''' It was all going to be so perfect, Lucy. Just like one big, happy family. Your boys... and my boys.
-->'''Edgar Frog:''' A bloodsucking Brady Bunch!
-->'''Max:''' ''(faces the heroes, now morphed into his true vampire form)'' But I still want you, Lucy. I haven't changed my mind about that!

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--->'''Vampire:''' Oh, but seriously... ''(eyes glow dark, voice deepens)'' '''WE'RE VAMPIRES!!!''' ''(bites a woman in the neck)''

--->'''Edgar Frog:''' Your sister's a suck monkey!
* VampireRefugee: Nicole [[spoiler: and Chris.]]

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* BadBoss: [[spoiler: Peter Lieber kills Gwen for no real reason other than seeming to find her annoying.]]

--> '''Edgar Frog:''' I'm going to need weapons. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Lots of. Really expensive. Custom made. Weapons.]]

* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: DJ X.]]

* FlatCharacter: The vampires this time around, [[spoiler: with the exception of Peter]], have no personality.

* TheMole: [[spoiler: Gwen Lieber was TheRenfield all along.]]

* TakeThat: Gwen Lieber is a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed thinly veiled]] {{Expy}} of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' creator Stephenie Meyer. When Edgar says that he knows she's the author of a series of romantic novels about vampires which are now being adapted into films, Gwen states that she's flattered. Edgar responds by saying the books suck, and derides the fans of the books as "emo goth teens".

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A TV series adaptation was in the works at Creator/TheCW for the 2018 season, but has wallowed in DevelopmentHell. Helmed by [[Series/VeronicaMars Rob]] [[Series/{{iZombie}} Thomas]], it will be an anthology series with each season set during a different decade.

* {{Fanservice}}: The titular "lost boys" are all very easy on the eyes.

* FinalSolution: [[spoiler:Kill the head vampire, and ''all'' the new half-vampires who haven't killed anyone yet return to normal]].

A TV series was in the works at Creator/TheCW for the 2018 season, but has wallowed in DevelopmentHell. Helmed by [[Series/VeronicaMars Rob]] [[Series/{{iZombie}} Thomas]], it will be an anthology series with each season set during a different decade.

Recently-divorced mother Lucy Emerson (Wiest) and her two sons move to [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed Santa Carla, California]]. Older son Michael (Patric) soon falls in with a gang of bikers led by David Powers (Sutherland), all of whom turn out to be vampires, while his kid brother Sam (Haim) befriends a couple of [[GenreSavvy seemingly insane]] comic store assistants obsessed with ''hunting'' vampires (not that they've ever met one before). After sharing a mysterious drink with David, Michael begins turning into a vampire, and it is up to Sam, with the help of the Frog brothers, to save him.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:The merry-go-round sequence foreshadows the order in which the Lost Boys die. Marko dies first, Paul second, Dwayne third, and David last]].

-->'''Max:''' ''(faces the heroes, now morphed into his true vampire form)'' But I still want you, Lucy. I haven't changed my mind about that.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Along with ''Film/NearDark'', this movie rewrote the book on vampires, in the same way ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' and ''Film/TheHowling'' (also both in the same year) rewrote the book on werewolves. Notably, while they have many of the folkloric strengths and weaknesses (even sleeping in native soil is alluded to, with the vampires' lair described as "one big coffin"), the one they play with the most is the "invitation". [[spoiler: Vampires ''can'' enter a residence uninvited, but if you ''do'' invite them, you lose all power over them while inside, including attempting to exploit any weaknesses vampires naturally have such as the lack of reflection.]]

A second Direct-to-Video sequel, ''Lost Boys: The Thirst'', was released in 2010. [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Vampire-romance novelist]] Gwen needs Edgar Frog to find her brother, who went missing after getting sucked into a series of underground raves called 'X Parties', held by an enigmatic spinner named DJ X. In a last, frantic message, he mentioned being given a new party drug known as the Thirst, which Edgar identifies as really being vampire blood. With the next X Party only days away, Edgar is faced with the threat of an army of vampires unless he can stop DJ X and save Peter -- but DJ X isn't ''just'' a vampire, he's the ''Alpha Vampire'', the ultimate head vampire, and someone Edgar's going to need help to defeat. Edgar hopes to recruit his reclusive brother, who's dealing with his own dark past. The movie stars Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander as the Frog brothers, and Tanit Phoenix.

** Subverted, but only because Edgar Frog returns from the first film.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Along with ''Film/NearDark'', this movie rewrote the book on vampires, in the same way ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' and ''Film/TheHowling'' (also both in the same year) rewrote the book on werewolves. Notably, while they have many of the folkloric strengths and weaknesses (even sleeping in native soil is alluded to, with the vampires' lair described as "one big coffin"), the one they play with the most is the "invitation". [[spoiler: Vampires ''can'' enter a residence uninvited, but if you ''do'' invite them, you lose all power over them while inside, including attempting to exploit any weaknesses vampires naturally have.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Edgar and Allen have ([[TheAllegedExpert some]]) of the right ideas when it comes to vampire slaying, but they tend to fall apart at the execution phase.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Edgar and Allen have the right ideas when it comes to vampire slaying, but they tend to fall apart at the execution phase.