For this week, I chose Kiefer Sutherland in The Lost Boys. Although many people many age haven’t seen this movie, it is one of my favorites. In fact, it is my favorite vampire film. It has the serious issues of life as a vampire and also a comical twist. Also, like most of the films made, they tie in a love story. The Lost Boys brings attention to the 80’s subculture in California. It shows the beauty of the city and the great curse of the bloodsuckers within its outskirts. The vampires in this film are not the school going, soft teenagers like in Twilight and The Vampire Diaries. They are rough punks who thrive on violence and attention. They are indestructible and vicious. The director, Joel Schumacher, focused in on Kiefer Sutherland’s character, David, as a bully but a bully of the worst kind.
This movie was also filmed in an interesting way. During the scenes of immense destruction, the screen seemed to bleed through with red and black shadows and images.
In my opinion, this did not give us the loving vampire that we all expect to see today. The Lost Boys showed the horror and pain of becoming and living as a vampire.
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