Death by Stereo

Advantages fantastic soundtrack
Disadvantages none really

...and Jamison Newlander. The Frog brothers fancy themselves as latter day vampire slayers- Buffy eat your heart out! Unfortunately, they are a pair of bumbling buffoons. They have some wonderful one-liners, which really helped to make the film, which does have a comedy element it must be said! I particularly liked “ Aah- it’s the return of Eddy Munster” and “ it’s the blood sucking Brady Bunch!” Of course the comment “Death by stereo” is now legendary and there is even a band with this name! I am not going to tell you any more about the plot, as I would not want to spoil it for anyone who has not seen it. The film’s success owes a lot to its atmospheric camera work, but far more to the superb musical score. The sound track is one of my favourite albums and contains numbers by INXS, such as Laying down the law and Good Times. There are also... Read review

Advantages Essential 80's cult viewing...
Disadvantages It's not very good!

...You know you're in the Eighties when you're watching a film that stars both Corey Feldman AND Corey Haim, and the scariest thing about a vampire movie is the haircuts and the fruit salad shirts. Shot like a Duran Duran video, The Lost Boys has earned a kind of cult following, that includes Quentin Tarantino (He referenced it in Reservoir Dogs, and the second half of Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn is virtually a remake, with George Clooney instead of Corey Feldman.) Single parent family (Haim, Jason Patric and Dianne Wiest) head to a tatty seaside town to stay with their eccentric Grandpa. Things turn weird when the older brother falls for mysterious Star (Jamie Gertz). Unfortunately, she is girlfriend to David (Sutherland) the magnetic leader of a bunch of punk vampires. Battling valiantly against vampires,... Read review

Advantages It rocks!
Disadvantages "Walk This Way" is missing!

...> Tracks < 01 INXS and Jimmy Barnes - Good Times 02 Lou Gramm - Lost In The Shadows (The Lost Boys) 03 Roger Daltrey - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me 04 INXS and Jimmy Barnes - Laying Down The Law 05 Echo & The Bunnymen - People Are Strange 06 Gereard McMann - Cry Little Sister (Theme From The Lost Boys) 07 Eddie And The Tide - Power Play 08 Tim Cappello - I Still Believe 09 Mummy Calls - Beuty Has Her Way 10 Thomas Newman - To The Shock Of Miss Louise Total running time: 43m44s > Review < When I think of the film The Lost Boys, I instantly think of the soundtrack, and when I think of any song on the soundtrack, I instantly think of the film. Films and their soundtracks are often separable, but not with The Lost Boys - a couple of the tracks are hard to notice in the film, but the rest are very noticeable and integral... Read review