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1987 - 97m.

Jason Patric and brother Corey Haim move with their recently divorced mother (the always steady character actor Dianne Wiest) to Santa Carla, California and end-up getting caught-up with a gang of bad-ass motorbiking vampire teens led by spiky-haired Keifer Sutherland.

Soon Patric has been pulled into their ranks and it's up to Haim and the comic book store working Frog brothers (Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander - giving decent comic relief) to try and stop the vamps and save his brother.

This teen spin on vampire legend is still a popular movie today as people who saw it when it first came out (like me) were pulled in by it's "hip" cast and flashy direction. But how does it stand-up today? It's still an entertaining time that may get a little dopey at times and feels thin on plot ocassionally but makes-up for that with a campy tone, some amusing attempts at humour (such as the whole "dinner party" scene), Sutherland being suitably sleazy in his role and a very pleasing finale (that loads on the vampire deaths, has sinks spraying blood and even "death by stereo!").

Don't even attempt to take this seriously and you'll have fun.

Directed By: Joel Schumacher.
Written By: Jeffrey Boam, Janice Fischer, James Jeremias.

Starring: Keifer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Jamie Gertz.