Why The Lost Boys still matters 39 years later (and why nothing else comes close)

Even 39 years after they came out of the dark, The Lost Boys shows no signs of slowing down. The 1980s had no shortage of horror icons on the big screen, yet the vampire subgenre was dormant, with the classic creature largely overshadowed by slasher villians. However, divisive director Joel Schumacher would add a youthful twist to the bloodsuckers in his 1987 horror comedy that imagined how a young pack of unruly vampires would fit into contemporary America.