12 Fun Facts About THE LOST BOYS
The Lost Boys is one of the few Joel Schumacher films that I actually really love. He made some solid movies in the '80s. It wasn’t until he started making those Batman movies in the '90s that he started to go downhill. The Lost Boys is easily one of my favorite vampire movies as well. It had such a great cast and an incredibly fun story. I realized that I haven't done a Fun Facts list on this movie yet, so I thought now would be just as good a time as any.
The information you will find below was found on IMDB. I've included my own commentary and added some photos and videos for the film as well.
- The original screenplay originally centered around a group of "Goonie-type 5th-6th grade kid vampires," with the Frog Brothers being "chubby 8-year-old cub scouts." Star was also a boy in the movie instead of a female love interest. Schumacher hated the first script and apparently told the producers he would only sign on if he could change them to teenagers, as he thought it would be much sexier and more interesting. The change worked out well, but I would have loved to see that original version as well!
- Executive producer Richard Donner was originally attached to direct the movie himself, but dueo to the slow development process of it, he moved on to direct Lethal Weapon. Knowing this, the original script they had for the film makes a lot more sense.
- Corey Haim and Corey Feldman were two of the decade's most popular young actors, and they become incredibly close friends over the years. This was the first film that they starred in together, and from there on out "The Two Coreys" starred in several films together.
- The names of the Frog brothers, Edgar and Alan, are obviously a reference to the classic writer of horror fiction, Edgar Allan Poe.
- “In the cave of the Lost Boys you can see a poster of Jim Morrison who recorded the original version of "People are Strange" with The Doors. And when Star and Laddie are being carried into Sam's room, you can see a poster of Echo & The Bunnymen who recorded the version used in the movie.”
- Kelly Jo Minter still received billing in the film's opening credits, but almost all of her scenes were deleted from the final cut of the film. The only real appearance that made it into the film was over Lucy's shoulder in the video store. Her scenes can be viewed in The Lost Boys DVD special features. You can watch one of them below.
- This movie invented the phrase "vamp out," which was used again in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- “The merry-go-round sequence foreshadows the order in which the Lost Boys die. Marko dies first, Paul second, Dwayne third and David last.”
- Feldman’s Edgar Frog foreshadows how each of the vampires die: "No two vamps die the same way, some yell and scream, some go quietly, some explode, some implode." Marko, when staked by Edgar, screams as he dies, Paul dissolves in a bathtub of holy water causing the plumbing in the house to implode on itself, Dwayne and Max blow up, and David seemingly dies very quietly.
- I always thought it was funny how many times the characters say the name Michael in the movie. Turns out the name is said approximately 118 times.
- Kiefer Sutherland’s character David is impaled by a pair of antlers and doesn't disintegrate like the other vampires. Apparently he was not really dead. This was intended to be part of a sequel called "The Lost Girls," which was scripted but never made. “In the Wildstorm comic mini-series 'The Lost Boys: Reign of the Frogs' (2008) - which helps bridge the 20-year gap between films - it's implied that 'David' not only survived the impaling but went on to create 'Shane' the head vampire in 'Lost Boys: The Tribe.'”
- The movie originally wasn’t supposed to end on a joke. Following the scene with Grandpa at the refrigerator, after he drives into the house killing Max, it was supposed to cut to the surviving Lost Boys regrouping in the sunken hotel. The last shot of the film was supposed to be of a mural on the wall, made in the early 1900s, with Max in it - looking exactly the same as he did today. This was all in the script but never shot.
Below you'll find the original trailer for the film, and 12 deleted scenes from the movie: