The Lost Boys (1987) - Joel Schumacher

It's a real shame that Joel Schumacher isn't recognised as well for this film as he is for the less great (but still enjoyable, to me anyway) Batman & Robin (1997) and Batman Forever (1995).
This film is an iconic vampire movie, and helped to reboot the entire genre. Not a single vampire writer or filmmaker that I am aware of, doesn't cite this as one of their influences. I draw from interviews with people like Joss Whedon and Neil Jordan for this fact. It's a brilliant movie, made ever more entertaining by the comedic personalities of the Frog Brothers and Corey Haim's character, as well as Schumacher himself as the auteur, mixing dark humour and gothicness with pure and simple gore. AN enjoyable watch for any horror fan.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

PS The gang of "Lost Boys" really reminds me and a lot of people of a group of youths in St Helens, which is why we watched it...