Stranger Things’ Billy is a Kiefer Sutherland riddle wrapped in a Rob Lowe enigma
Note: This post contains light plot points for season two of Stranger Things.
The Lost Boys originally had a post-credits scene
Though post-credits scenes are increasingly associated with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they’ve always been fair game for any genre. Matthew Broderick shooed away lingering audiences after the credits wrapped on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, while The Grey ended with round two of that “Liam Neeson versus a wolf” fight.…
Take a trip back to Santa Carla with The Story Of The Lost Boys
Last year, we told you about a book from author Paul Davis about the making of An American Werewolf In London called Beware The Moon: Remembering An American Werewolf In London. And now Davis is back with a new, equally comprehensive look at the making of Joel Schumacher’s 1987 vampire cult classic, Lost In The…
A slayer’s lineage: 9 pop cultural precursors to Buffy
When Buffy The Vampire Slayer debuted on The WB in 1997, it signaled a new direction for the fledgling netlet, a pivot toward audiences who could see themselves reflected in Buffy Summers and her Sunnydale High classmates. Of course, it’s the distinctions between Buffy and all previous TV teens that made all the…
The CW pushes back The Lost Boys and Charmed reboots to 2018
The CW is holding development on two of its planned reboots—Charmed and The Lost Boys—to next season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The CW is busy with six other pilots and a successful roster of returning shows, making room scarce for the two anticipated reboots. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the…
The Lost Boys soundtrack walked awkwardly between worlds
When The Lost Boys arrived in 1987, popular music was in a state of change, transitioning from the brooding, poufy-haired synth-pop that dominated the early ’80s into the boisterous, poufy-haired metal that straddled its latter half. Like the movie’s shapeshifting vampires—or like Kiefer Sutherland’s Billy…
CW orders super-ambitious Lost Boys TV revival from iZombie’s Rob Thomas
Last month we brought you news that Vertigo was attempting a Lost Boys revival in comic-book form, portraying the ongoing efforts of Sam Emerson and the Frog Brothers to wipe out all the damn vampires in Santa Clara, California. Little did we know, though, that Lost Boys revivals are like house centipedes. Which is to…
Supercut proves that ’80s films loved them some dance sequences
Tomorrow, August 5, is a special day that may be missing from calendars in a gross oversight: It’s the 30th anniversary of Lionel Richie’s hit song “Dancing On The Ceiling.” Such a momentous occasion as that shouldn’t go unnoticed and must be celebrated in some fashion. Luckily YouTuber Robert Jones has rushed to the…
The Lost Boys gets another sequel, this one in comic form
How do you make a sequel to a movie about teenagers staying eternally young and perfect, when the actual, corporeal stars of the film demonstrably (and, in a few cases, tragically) have not? If the movie in question is The Lost Boys, the answer is to hop mediums, apparently, over to the gentle, age-forgiving world of…
Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald’s son and destroying the first 24 action figure
Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
R.I.P. Edward Herrmann, star of Gilmore Girls and The Lost Boys, portrayer of F.D.R.
Edward Herrmann, whose formidable figure made him as familiar on television and in film as his distinctive voice made him instantly recognizable as a narrator, has died at the age of 71. Per his agent, Herrmann died Wednesday at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York after months of treatment for brain…