As The Lost Boys begins, the Emerson family has just moved to fictional Santa Carla, California (really Santa Cruz, CA), the self-titled “murder capital of the world” after a bitter divorce. Mom Lucy, and sons Michael and Sam move in with Grandpa, hoping for a new start, and it doesn’t take long to see just how bizarre it’s going to get.
Oldest son Michael (Jason Patric) immediately falls in with the wrong crowd. His first night out at the Boardwalk, he meets Star (Jami Gertz), and is immediately smitten. What he doesn’t know is Star is a part of a vampire cult, although not a full-fledged vampire. She leads him to the rest of the “lost boys,” David (Kiefer Sutherland), Marco (Alex Winter), Dwayne (Billy Wirth), and Paul (Brooke McCarter).
Meanwhile, younger Sam (Corey Haim) meets up with the Frog Brothers, Edgar (Corey Feldman) and Alan (Jamison Newlander), who proceed to inform him that he lives in a vampire-infested town. They even give him a comic book they wrote about...
