History Film / TheLostBoys

* WeCanRuleTogether: We can ''parent'' together, anyway. [[spoiler: Max believes his boys need a mother's influence, and that Lucy can provide it to them. He specifically told David to target her sons so that once they were turned, she couldn't refuse to be turned herself. His genuine and heartfelt ([[AnOfferYouCantRefuse albeit not-really-negotiable]]) offer is to make her his vampire bride so they can lead his vampire "family" as father and mother.]]

* DiscOneFinalBoss: At first the BigBad seems to be David, the vampire pack leader trying to corrupt the main character into joining him, but it's revealed at the end that [[spoiler:he answers to Max, who wants Sam and Michael's entire family turned]].

* TomTheDarkLord: The head vampire who leads them in regular acts of shockingly brutal murder is simply named David. His friends have the similarly normal names of Marko, Paul, and Dwayne, and [[spoiler: their leader is Max]].

* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: [[spoiler: Max is a perfectly normal-seeming video store clerk who is really the head of a pack of vicious vampires.]]

* MustBeInvited: Played with. [[spoiler:Vampires ''can'' enter a home uninvited, as seen during the climax, but if you invite them in first, you lose all power over them as long as they are inside your home -- which includes rendering them invulnerable to your attacks or attempts to exploit their weaknesses and expose them as vampires. Max uses this to trick the protagonists into thinking he's human]].
* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Max comes within a hair's breadth of getting Lucy turned into a vampire before Grandpa intervenes.]]

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
[[spoiler:Max. A fence post destroys most of his torso, and he's flung backward several feet.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Early on, Max tells the Lost Boys to leave his store, and they immediately do so without a fuss.
** Max confuses the superstition of not seeing the bride before the marriage for being about not seeing the food before the meal. [[spoiler:He plans to make his intended "bride" (Lucy) into ''food.'']]
** [[spoiler:Max very formally requests permission to enter the house. Initially, it seems like an obvious giveaway that he's a vampire, but then he passes all the Frog brothers' vampire detection tests, confusing the issue until it's revealed him being invited in nullified the effects of the tests.]]
** [[spoiler:The merry-go-round sequence foreshadows the order in which the Lost Boys die. Marko dies first, Paul second, Dwayne third, and David last]].

* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: [[spoiler: Max refers to them as "his boys" at the end in a tone that shows he saw them as his sons and it's heavily implied they saw him as a father figure, and he is saddened by their deaths and the two families together not being brought together.]]
* EyeColorChange: Vampires' eyes go from their natural colour to golden-red when they transform into 'vampire mode'.

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Max. He may be the BigBad, but ignoring the "murderous vampire" part, he's just a lonely widower who wants a wife and mother for his boys]].

* {{Flight}}: One of the vampires' abilities.

* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: How David and his buddies lay waste to a group of punk rockers/skinheads having a beach bonfire party.

* TokenGoodTeammate: According to the novelization, Star finds Paul the most approachable of the Lost Boys; he was the most recently turned before she and Laddie joined, and he's always trying to cheer her up with humor.

* ItCameFromTheSink: When one of the vampires is pushed into a bathtub full of holy water, his blood begins coming out of all the pipes, including through the bathroom and kitchen sinks.

* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: The vampires seem to genuinely care a lot for one another, being sincerely saddened at Marko's death. [[spoiler: Max refers to them as "his boys" at the end in a tone that shows he saw them as his sons and it's heavily implied they saw him as a father figure, and he is saddened by their deaths and the two families together not being brought together.]]

** [[spoiler:One of the vampires, Marko, gets impaled through the chest with a stake by the Frog brothers while he is sleeping upside down]].
** [[spoiler:Max. A fence post destroys most of his torso, and he's flung backward several feet.]]

* SexEqualsLove: Michael and Star really don't share that many lines with each other before they [[spoiler: have sex halfway through the film.]]
* SexyDiscretionShot: Michael and Star's first time, which shows them kissing on a bed then cuts to images of clouds in the sky. [[spoiler: The faint bat-noises and constantly shifting camera angles imply that this is actually the POV of the Lost Boys returning home right before sunrise, which might explain why David wasn't upset about Star having sex with Michael instead of making him her first kill; he was in too much of a hurry to get to the cave before sunrise to notice!]] While the original scene lasted about three times longer, it didn't get any more explicit (you can't even be sure if Star is actually topless or Michael just slid down the straps of her camisole).

* HypnoticEyes: Vampires apparently have this power, but the only time it's used is when David makes Michael see Chinese takeout as maggots and worms.

* NaiveEverygirl: Star, at least as much as she can be in an R-rated movie.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Subverted with David and Star, since she since starts taking an interest in Michael, who, while still a teen rebel, is a nicer guy than David. The trope is also deconstructed in that even though we don't know how Star came to be involved with David, she doesn't seem to enjoy the life of a vampire very much, since [[spoiler:she refuses to kill, even when David intentionally sets her up with Michael so that he can be her first kill, and the two end up having sex instead]].

* TheQuietOne: David, while being one of the lead cast members, has the fewest lines among all leading and supporting cast members. At the same time, he has the most dialogue of the four vampire Lost Boys.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: David and his friends ''revel'' in this mentality. It's pretty hard for security guards and other authoritative figures [[spoiler:except for [[BigBad Max]]]] to keep them from going wherever they want or doing whatever they want, since those people tend to go "missing" afterwards.
* SequelHook: Subverted with [[spoiler:David's body never disintegrating]], because plans for a immediate sequel never came to fruition. Averted in ''The Tribe'' with the two unused alternate endings. See What Could Have Been under Trivia for more detail.
* SenselessPhagia: The "wine" is David's blood, but Michael can't tell the difference. He's horrified to discover much later that he drank blood. The trope is toyed with earlier, when David mind-tricks Michael into believing that he's eating maggots and worms, but it's really just rice and noodles (or so it seems -- it's not clear which version is real), which is why Michael dismisses Star's warning that the wine is blood.

* LivingForeverIsAwesome: David and his gang certainly think so. It's their main sales pitch to Michael.

** [[spoiler:David's death.]]

* HangingByTheFingers: David and the Lost Boys taunt Michael until he joins them in dangling beneath a railroad bridge. The strain and vibrations of a passing train cause his fingers to lose grip, and he slips more and more until he finally falls.

* TheDragon: [[spoiler: David is actually this to Max.]]
* DyingAsYourself: After [[spoiler:David]] dies, he looks noticeably younger and more innocent, even losing his beard.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: David ''really'' wants Michael to understand how awesome it would be to become a vampire, and [[spoiler:Max]] ''really'' wants [[spoiler:Lucy]] to understand how great it would be to be "part of the family." Neither can understand why they would have a problem with that little "soulless blood-sucking monster of the night" detail.

* AmbiguouslyBi: David, who has a girlfriend named Star but spends a majority of his time trying to influence Michael and turn him over to the dark side. He and Michael share a lot of very intense eye contact.

* BigBad: David is the leader of the Lost Boys, [[spoiler:but answers to Max]].

** Edgar and Alan are named in honor of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe.