Haven't seen any of the movies that dropped so far. What I know about The Lost Boys:
-Producer Richard Donner would have directed it if he wasn't busy with Lethal Weapon (in which a marquee of a movie theater can be seen which reads "Lost Boys" at one point), hence why Joel Schumacher directed it instead.
-The director is a big fan of Batman, hence why Batman comics are discussed in one scene. Ironically when he directed his own Batman movies they were widely mocked, but he was also a hired gun for the studio's campy vision and he swore before he passed away that the Nolan movies resembled more of what he wanted to do with the character. I wound up checking out his Batman movies and A Time to Kill after he passed away and while I didn't like any of them, I was largely impressed with his direction and felt the scripts were what sunk all three. Also I had no problems with his Batman movies being campy, personally. Did Schumacher ever return to the horror genre after Flatliners?
-Siskel & Ebert both gave the movie marginal thumbs down because they thought it was too ambitious and overstuffed. Having seen the CinemaSins and the Dead Meat kill count, I think I get where they're coming from.
Why do people act like the left is the party of social justice crusaders?