The Lost Boys Reviews
Antagony & Ecstasy
That Schumacher handles the transitions between very light horror, comedy, teen romance, and action as well as he does is evidence of a sure hand found nowhere else in his filmography.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Reel Film Reviews
...a passable yet unspectacular relic of the 1980s.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Common Sense Media
Scary '80s vamp film. Older teens only.
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| Original Score: 3/5
eFilmCritic.com
It hasn't aged well. At all.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Film4
A hugely enjoyable picture that proves Joel Schumacher really can direct and that not everything about the 1980s was awful.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Despite its flaws, however, the film is an interesting addition to vampire cinema.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
A horrifically dreadful vampire teensploitation entry.
Film Freak Central
The picture affirms that the only thing truly important is this image of the older brother with his arm around the younger.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Groucho Reviews
With its cool cast and classic kiss-off ending, The Lost Boys will forever be a cultural touchstone of '80s cinema. [Blu-Ray]
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Time Out
Top CriticDirected with a cavalier disregard for intelligibility, this has to be one of the most anaemic vampire flicks ever made.
Empire Magazine
A supremely watchable example of something the '80s did right.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Movie Metropolis
The movie may not offer a lot in the way of serious frights or even originality, but it is most definitely weird and decidedly funny.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Horror.com
A coffinload of DVD extras to sate your Lost Boys bloodlust!
Filmcritic.com
The Lost Boys is not a movie you want to put in a time capsule or even revisit, unless your name happens to be Corey.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Overdirected and junky, but mildly amusing.
| Original Score: 3/5
Kalamazoo Gazette
Gothic style, humor and sexy stars -- a cult classic
| Original Score: 4/5
Sunday Times (Australia)
A corn-ball '80s vampire classic! Starring the two Corey's!
| Original Score: 4/5
Movie Eye
A schlocky and stylish teen-oriented gorefest that's humorously off-kilter and frothy--it's something worth sinking your fangs into!
| Original Score: 4/5
Moviehole
One of the best thrillers of our time...rocks as well as it rolls
| Original Score: 4/5
