Lost Boys #6/Michael and Star

This is what is happening on the cliff above as Sam is escaping David - Michael is carrying Star to safety. The Last of the Lost Boys scenes. I am probably going to start posting Alice next week...There will be a sort of coming attraction tomorrow, Friday ??? I have decided to do Donnie Darko. partly because I haven't watched the film for a couple of years.

The last of the three photos shot at San Francisco's Land's End.

Lost Boys #5/David's hand

The film's iconic moment occurs when Sam escapes David's grip. Exposed to sunlight, David's hand bursts into flames. He pulls his hand back in and chuckles "Tonight....". I have one more of Lost Boys for tomorrow.

Edit: I'm looking at this and thinking this is the vampiric equivalent of approaching a light socket with a fork - the thrill of it all. 

Lost Boys#4/The Cave

David passes Michael a curiously decorated bottle of wine - or is wine? Star, in the background, warns Michael not to drink it, but by this time Michael seems to be imitating David's every sneer and is not inclined to listen.

David remarks that the vampire's home is an old Luxury Hotel which collapsed into the earth "When the big one hit in '06". The photograph was shot at San Francisco's Sutro Baths, which survived that earthquake but later burned down in the 1960's.

Lost Boys#3/Caution

Max should have a "Caution" sign on his gate - his dog Thorn is a little over-zealous. Did he chase Lucy from the house because he ate some bad kibble, or is he a Hound of Hell?

Shot on the lovely filbert Street steps.

Lost Boys#2/Max's Video Store

Max, the toothy owner of Max's Video Store, hands a lollypop to Lucy, with whom he appears smitten. "Wild Kids", he says of the vampire gang he has just kicked out. "We were young once", she replies. Passing behind Max, each of the Boys eyes Max eyeing Lucy and sneers mightily, I have pictured only David (Kiefer Suthrland) here. In the background is Jasmine of Silver Screen Video on Grand Avenue, who is also a fan.

Lost Boys #1/Not the Nouvelle Vague

Lucy, with her sons Sam and Michael, moves to Santa Carla after her divorce to live with her eccentric father. On arriving, the first things they see are bizarrely carved wooden totems in his yard. The life of the town is on the Boardwalk, where younger son Sam meets the Frog brothers, who try to give him a horror comic which they insist is a "survival manual".

Well, I belonged to a film group a couple of years back which viewed extremely long circuitous French films from the sixties of people standing around talking. I fear I do not have the makings of an intellectual. I could watch this film every day, the script is a marvel of condensation and character revelation in each line, the ensemble cast is amazing, don't let me get started on the clothes...It is perfect in every detail. Link to the trailer if you want to know who you'll be seeing here.

The scary creature at top was shot at the cliff trail at San Francisco's Land's End, which closely resembles the film's Santa Carla (Santa Cruz) location. The second was shot at Dr. Comics and Mr. Games on Piedmont Avenue.

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Lost Boys/Another Man in Black

So I was thinking about how Hamlet is the drama of adolescence (sure enough, I checked on Google, and this has occurred to other people as well). Brought to mind another guy who dressed in black, the character Kiefer Sutherland played in the 1987 horror comedy Lost Boys. This may have been the first film in this genre, it had a wonderful cast and script. The subtext was (and this is the main thread to Hamlet) that adolescents, with their bizarre fashions and bad attitudes, are in fact different in kind (and I know some of my readers were born around the same time or after this film was released).

     When Keifer and his blood-sucking pals wander into Max's video shop and are asked to leave, Max (Edward Herrman) remarks to Lucy (Dianne Wiest), "Bad kids". 

     "Aw, we were young once", she replies. But they're all VAMPIRES (before vampires were considered good boyfriend material). 

      Anyway, highly recommended for those who want to see Kiefer before he started saving the world. Coreys, we hardly knew ye. Link to trailer. Anybody else got any pop culture favorites?

P.S.: Do NOT rent the sequel by mistake - apparently it's unwatchable.