Director: Joel Schumacher 
Cast: Corey Haim, Keifer Sutherland, Jason Patric & Corey Feldman.

The Lost Boys is a 1987 American horror film about two young Arizonans who move to California and end up fighting a gang of teenage vampires.

Michael Emerson (Jason Patric) and his boyish brother Sam (Corey Haim) move with their just-divorced mother Lucy (Dianne Wiest) to Santa Carla, a coastal California town plagued by gang activity and unexplained disappearances. The family moves in with Lucy's father (Barnard Hughes), a cantankerous and eccentric old man who lives in the outlying suburbs of town, with a hobby of taxidermy.

The center of town life is the boardwalk and amusement park. While Lucy gets a job at a local video store run by a man named Max (Edward Hermann), Michael is fascinated by Star (Jami Gertz), a beautiful young woman who lives with the leader of the local gang. Michael finds her the next night, but is provoked by gang leader David (Kiefer Sutherland) into a motorcycle race, in which he is baited into almost going over the edge of a sea cliff.

David invites Michael to their lair, where he is put through an unsettling initiation that includes drinking blood from a wine bottle. He joins the gang in hanging from the underside of elevated train tracks, watching in horror as each willingly drops into a foggy gorge below. Unable to hold on any longer, Michael falls... waking up in his bed, groggy and disoriented.

In the meantime, Sam meets brothers Edgar and Alan Frog (Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander), self-proclaimed vampire hunters who give Sam horror comics to teach him about vampires. Sam scoffs at them until Michael's developing vampirism becomes clear: their dog is forced to fend off Michael's blood-lust-driven attack on Sam, who notices that Michael's reflection has become transparent.

Sam turns to the Frog brothers for help, but refuses their advice to kill Michael. He turns their suspicions to Max, who has begun dating Lucy, suggesting that he is the head vampire whose death will free half-vampires such as Michael, who have not yet killed. They put him through a series of tests, which appear to indicate that he is normal.

Michael resists joining the gang in a feeding frenzy. Star reveals to Michael that she too is half-vampire, and wants his help. The next day Michael leads Sam and the Frog brothers to the gang's lair, where they intend to kill the vampires in their sleep. But the killing of one vampire awakens David and the two others, and the Emerson brothers, Frog brothers, Star, and a recently abducted child half-vampire barely escape.

That evening, while Lucy is on a date with Max, and her father is out of the house, the teens arm themselves with weapons based on traditional defenses against vampires. David and the others attack, but are killed spectacularly, with Michael ultimately impaling David on deer antlers. But Michael doesn't transform back to normal with David's death, as they expected.

Max and Lucy arrive, and Max is revealed as the head vampire, having passed the Frog brothers' tests only on the technicality of being invited into the house. Max's objective all along was to get Lucy to be a "mother" for his "lost boys", but is thwarted by her father — who has been aware of the vampires all along — crashing his jeep through the wall of the house, killing Max on the wooden fence posts it was carrying. Michael, Star, and Laddie go back to normal. Everyone is relieved, but grandpa normally goes to get something to drink. He then declares, "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach...all the damn vampires".