Lost Boys

So I just finished watching the movie the Lost Boys. Being a movie from 1987, I found it a bit corny and outdated, but still rather enjoyable. I am going to put spoilers in this, so this is the warning here. So, the grandfather of the two main characters is weird and really in to taxidermy which leads to some comic relief, but is really creepy because he does it in this really dark room with red lights and tells the boys to stay out. Their mother is a push-over, yet she handles her boyfriend being a vampire rather well. She does do the sensible thing and runs home when she hears screaming coming from her son on the telephone, though why she couldn't tell Max (the boyfriend) where she was going is beyond me. So, we have a group of delinquents, who also are vampires, running around the town and a ton of missing persons posters litter the boardwalk. I am rather glad they never showed the vampires flying, because I feel the corniness factor would be rather high. Michael for some reason decides to take drink from the gang after they make him see all these weird things. I suppose he decided it was all in his head, but wouldn't it be more sensible to not go drinking strange things. So Michael turns into a half-vampire and his brother threatens to kill him. He also meets these two hippie children who have an issue with vampires and run a comic shop while their parents sleep. I personally think they may be dead and the boys just put them there for show. Sam, the younger brother of Michael, thinks that his mom's boyfriend is the head vampire. I was really confused when that happened because there was nothing that led me to that conclusion. Also you have to kill the head vampire to reverse the half-vampire syndrome. So there is Star, this girl who Michael chases after and likes and becomes a vampire despite her warning, and her little brother who is not really given any introduction or purpose. She and her brother are also half-vamps and in the beginning it seemed that Star was with David, who is allegedly the head vampire because he leads the vampire gang. It turns out that she wants Michael. I was really confused how they ended up having sex when Michael turned up upset about what was happening.Star is upset and says she can't help him, but apparently she can make him feel better by having sex. Which brings me to the reason Michael was so upset. He was flying and he couldn't stop. It looked painful. Coincidentally this is also where the screaming their mother heard came from. So, we have a group of vampire punks terrorizing the boardwalk, a man who is not suspicious who is a suspect, a mother who is clueless about everything, a young adult guy who is turning into a vampire, a kid brother who is obsessed with comics and decides to help his brother with the help of some novice vampire-hunters who may or may not know what the hell they are doing. Oh, I forgot to mention the girl who is suddenly upset at her own vampirism as well as her brothers. I think that they showed missing person's posters of these kids, but it's just not enough. The little boy is pointless. Somehow, though they were very loud, the boys sneak up on the sleeping vampires and manage to kill one. La-di-da, they get ready for night because the vampires are going to come after them. The kids go to a church, fill their canteens with holy water during a baptism, and the people just stare and don't say anything. long battle sequence short, they kill the vampires each in a gruesome and violent way, with the exception of David. For some reason he got a rather peaceful end, and didn't explode; he even got heavenly light. unfortunately, it's not over yet, nope, they were wrong and it was Max the whole time. Wtf, how did that happen? Luckily he lets them know that he just wanted one big happy vampire family with his boys and the mother and her boys. Star and her brother are not mentioned. Another stroke of luck is that Grandpa happens to know that there is a vampire in the house somehow, and drives his conveniently loaded with fence stakes truck backward into the house and impales the evil vampire baddy who just wanted a wife. everyone goes back to normal and grandpa says something about all the damn vampires in the town. So aside from the bad hair, and fashion sense, and plot issues, the movie wasn't all bad.