Good films never die! It may not have launched a thousand ships but Joel Schumacher’s 1987 The Lost Boys has influenced many of the subsequent mainstream vampire films and series that have followed it. From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the Twilight-saga, the Never-Never-land that is inhabited by the eternal teenager and Mall-Rat vampire is never far away. Finding itself situated in the middle of the explosion of teen-vamp films of the 1980’s, The Lost Boys configures a seminal point in the transition of the Old World European revenant of Count Dracula to the young and achingly hip teenage vamp of New World America, consequently it is as popular now as it was when it was first released.
