It's Andy Fish!

You’d be forgiven if you’d passed on watching 1987’s Teen-Vampire film because you thought it consisted of hip vampires and a pop music score– because it does. But it’s the cast, and the fact that Richard Donner, himself a very powerful director, actually produced the film so he must have kept the normally overly flamboyant Joel Schumacher in check and the end result is a really good movie, despite Corey Feldman’s presence.

Two teenage boys move with their recently divorced mother to their grandfather’s house in the seaport town of Santa Clara– known as “the murder capital of the world” because of all the missing people.

Trying to fit in, the boys encounter some of their peers, Sam, the younger brother, finds himself in the company of The Frog Brothers whose parents own the local comic book shop and are both a bit eccentric trying to convince Sam that Vampires DO exist, while Michael, the older brother is lured by a girl into the group of angsty teen bikers who are trouble to the local authorities, and that’s without knowing they’re actually vampires.

Meanwhile the Mom tries her best to start a new normal life with her quirky father when she meets the owner of a local video store, Max, who charms his way into taking her to dinner.

Diane Weist is the mom, and like everything she’s in, she’s exceptional here. Kiefer Sutherland is terrific as the lead teen vampire and Schumacher does a great job of peppering the sound track with covers of some great old rock classics by then modern arists like Echo and the Bunnymen covering the Doors “People Are Strange” along with several songs made just for the film that really add to the storytelling. You’ll never see a saxaphone performance the same way again.

Five Stars- it’s a go to for me every Halloween season.