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Soundtrack

"The soundtrack also features a cover version of The Doors' song "People are Strange" by Echo & the Bunnymen. The song as it featured in the movie is an alternate, shortened version with a slightly different music arrangement. This version has not been released as of yet." YES IT HAS!!! It's on the movie soundtrack.

Santa Carla also in 1988 film Waxwork

The Missing posters in this film refer to the Santa Carla police department. Actually, these missing posters in Waxwork were doctored versions of the missings posters in Lost Boys. Enda80 16:04, 27 June 2006 (UTC)Enda80[reply]

I was going to say that's be useful in an article about the film Waxwork, but for some reason we don't have it. Would it be worth mentioning in this article? -- the GREAT Gavini 10:45, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"In Reservoir Dogs, Mr. Orange, while memorizing a cover story, mentions that he was "Trying to watch The Lost Boys." Ironically, he mentions said cover taking place in 1986, the year before The Lost Boys was released in theaters." That's not irony. 203.206.73.32 10:05, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Possibility of sequels

Some recent news.

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canmag.com 66.114.93.6 06:36, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sequel has a name and a trailer. And it would appear Corey Feldman has a decent-sized role. http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1583178&vid=215372 Mbourgon (talk) 21:47, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tim Capello vs. The Call

From the MUSIC section: "Tim Capello's inspirational hit I Still Believe was featured in the film as well as on the soundtrack. Tim Capello makes a small cameo appearance..." The radio hit version of "I Still Believe" is by The Call, from the album _Reconciled_ {full song title: "I Still Believe (Great Design)".} I don't think Tim Capello's version actually got much airplay, much less became a "hit", even in the most modest sense. 24.173.35.86 17:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should the trivia bullet "There are no colored people seen in the film" even be in the trivia section?

Discussion over the ending

I've deleted this section only because in the long run its pointless and it really doesn't need to be here.

Tag line

The last piece of trivia quotes the tagline incorrectly. It misses 'Never grow old, Never die" (see the poster image). This needs to be fixed somehow. prehaps removed - SimonLyall 12:03, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vampire disintegration?

The article states that all the vampires but David disintergrate upon death. I am hard pressed to find a scene in the theatrical or DVD released versions that actually show a disintergration. One is staked, but bleeds profusely, another is burned beyond recognition by holy water, one is electrocuted, and David is impaled. This statement appears false. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.145.150.226 (talk • contribs) 20:09, 4 May 2007

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Root Beer / Dr. Pepper debate

"The middle shelf mine. Keep my root beer and double-thick Mint Oreo cookies here. Nobody touches the second shelf." to quote Grandpa. It's that way in both the film and the novella, I checked. Vila 06:45, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Inaccurate pop culture reference information

The article currently refers to the Vampire computer game. The Vampire computer game comes from the tabletop RPG, which of course predates it, and was strongly influenced by the movie as vampires in the modern world. See the article at Vampire:_the_masquerade. Kaerondaes (talk) 12:53, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I recently removed it. There are no direct references to the lost boys. Seeing illusions of eating maggots and destroying the "head vampire" are not original vampire concepts from the lost boys. They go back further. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.192.236.174 (talk) 02:11, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The 69 Eyes

I might of missed it but I don't think I saw anything about the song Lost Boys by The 69 Eyes in pop culture or anywhere. That song is pretty much about this movie and many parts of the song and video clip and from the movie. Such as where they are hanging from the bridge, that's in the video clip. The line "Blind boys never lie" that's both in the movie and the song as well. WeLsHy 02:50, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

it's in the pop culture section, part 4 to be exact. Vila 03:46, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Making a vampire

Also, the Frog brothers comment that to become a vampire, one must either get bitten or drink the blood of a vampire. On Buffy, a vampire sires a human by combining those two processes.

Scarcely a reference to The Lost Boys, this is straight out of Dracula! MartinSFSA (talk) 17:33, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comedy?!

I'm I the only one that's lost by this? This wasn't a comedy movie. There were a few funny lines, like "No TV, no MTV!" But that's about it. It was one scary movie for me when I first saw it. Why do you call it a comedy-horror? Dharma6662000 (talk) 01:20, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Corrected accordingly - who laughed watching it? Jim Michael (talk) 20:49, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here, me. Maybe you guys were too young? ;) --Echosmoke (talk) 19:44, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Joel Schumacher himself states on the director's commentary that he was trying to make a comedy horror, and talks about achieving this tone at length, and there is a featurette on the special edition called "Comedy/Horror?" which explores this very element of the film. --Tarrant on Wiki (talk) 05:19, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There is plenty of humour in the film, including the great one-liner by Grandpa at the end. Humour is a subjective topic and to dismiss classifying this out of hand is disingenuous. The director himself says himself he was aiming for horror/comedy, which IMDB has also categorized it as such. Rimmer1993 (talk) 22:42, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vomiting

I've removed the whole "Michael starts to vomit and freaks out" bit from the plot summary. That does not happen in the movie. Maybe it happened in the book, maybe it was originally a part of the plot and was just cut, but if it did it belongs somewhere else, because whatever the case may be, it did not end up in the final version of the film, so it does not belong in the plot summary. 75.210.79.195 (talk) 04:59, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spoiler

Can you please add a spoiler tag to this article's plot section? I don't know how to do that.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.233.54.225 (talk) 03:45, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please see WP:SPOILER. - Jason A. Quest (talk) 00:55, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

References in popular culture

Someone should add that in the comic book one-shot X-Necrosha(part of the crossover event Necrosha, which spans X-Force, New Mutants, and X-Men: Legacy), there is a variant cover that is a direct homage to the infamous Lost Boys movie poster, with the main characters replaced by members of X-Force and the tagline "Heroes by day. Assassins by night. Never show mercy. Never give up. It's fun to be in X-Force."

Also, the song "Infection 13", by Dope Stars Inc., has a line in the chorus that says "Sleep All day, party all night, never grow old and never die", a direct reference to the aforementioned movie poster. GeneticInsanity (talk) 18:28, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article already has too much random trivia in it. - Jason A. Quest (talk) 00:53, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not any more. Hopefully it'll stay that way. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 10:45, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Marvel comics did a lot of movie reference covers, I don't think X-Necrosha is noteable enough. Lots42 (talk) 00:28, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Citations

I notice that most of the citations needed in the Production section can be provided by using the directors commentary and info given on the special edition DVD in featurettes etc. I'm presuming this is where someone has sourced this info from. But how to cite properly? Am happy to do the work, just not sure if I need to go through the DVD and identify quotes/time etc. --Tarrant on Wiki (talk) 05:23, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Peter Pan the Vampire

The ironic thing is, there is a comic book where Peter Pan and the Lost Boy (although it's a different group of Lost Boys) are vampires. It's called, The Lost A couple of issues is by Chaos Comics, then the other one is by someone else. I've only got issues 1 and 3, so I'll have to find them and check.

Wendy (again, a different Wendy, because it takes place sometime in the 1980's or 1990's) is partially transformed into a vampire (she seems drugged) when Peter gives her a soda can that's been spiked with his blood (you can see him bite his wrist and allow the blood to drip into the can). Later, on the way to Neverland (though an underground sewer, not the sky) she runs afoul of the mermaids, who are beautiful when above the waves, but are skeletal when they are underwater. She is injured, and Peter tends to her, predominantly to finish the change to vampire. In issue 3, Peter takes her to an adult SB&M club (his favorite restaurant), and when he's chosen their meal for the night, there's a picture of her with fangs. However, as she is about to bite, she backs out and runs to the bathroom, where Peter finds her kneeling in front of a toilet.

If I find my two issues, I'll start or expand the page for The Lost. --MysticOrbot (talk) 21:13, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Formatting is all messed up

The formatting for the first section is completely messed up. It's all HTML weirdness instead of text and picture and I do not know how to fix it. Lots42 (talk) 00:27, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"critical success"

It's quite common for WP articles to say whether a film was a critical or financial success. Here are a few examples. PRRfan (talk) 05:43, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, and I fix them as I find them. This is a statement of opinion and is original research. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 13:47, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]