5 vampire movies and TV shows we wouldn’t have without The Lost Boys

&nbs🌳p;Vampires weren’t always ridiculously sexy. Why would you want to wear a cape, swirl around as a bunch of bats, or sound like The Count from Sesame Street? Bloodsucking? Urgh. But it only took one film to change our ideas of vampires for good. The Lost Boys, released in 1987 and directed by Joel Schumacher, revolutionised teen bloodsucking with its blend of ultra cool creatures of the night riding motorcycles around a thinly disguised Santa Cruz. Who needs California sunlight when there is endl𝐆ess fun to to be had as an immortal teen bloodsucker? Now celebrated as a cult classic, The Lost Boys means Schumacher’s bloody fingerprints are all over modern horror. Here are the 5 movies and TV shows we would never have had if it wasn’t for Kiefer Sutherland and his motley, if exceptionally thirsty, crew. 

 1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer  

 If The Lost Boys made vampires cool, Buffy made turning them to dust a toothy artform in a pair of Ray Bans. Joss Whedon’s stratospherically successful teen drama with bonus demons takes everything that made The Lost B꧟oys tick and slots it perfectly into a high school setting. Vampires with glowing yellow eyes? Check. Brooding, ridiculously cool Angel as we🤪ll as the usual stake fodder? Also check. Schumacher’s effortless blend of horror and comedy one liners led the way for Buffy’s now infamously witty script as one girl in all the world takes on the forces of evil and wins. Thanks Joel, we owe you one.  

 2.Interview with the Vampire 

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It might not look like a direct link immediately as Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt go back to the 18th century in 1994’s Interview with the Va༺mpire, but staying immortal and handsome has never looked this good. He might not be wearing leather but Cruise’s Lestat is a 🌼vampire rockstar, at least for a while, taking what he wants from the world for decades without a single wrinkle or hair out of place. Before Louis interrupts his perfect world with those pesky morals, Lestat wears expensive clothes, lives in decadence, and drinks the blood of the rich like wine. Yum.  

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