The Lost Boys (1987) feat. Marisa Mirabal

<p>Grab your leather jackets and shape up your mullet because we're celebrating our 150th episode with a seminal queer vampire text in Joel Schumacher's <em>The Lost Boys </em>(1987)! Joining us for the discussion is Marisa Mirabal, a co-host of the Black Magic Coven podcast!</p><p>After taking a look at the historical context of the film's release (height of the Reagan era, AIDS crisis, the Moral Majority), we'll go all-in on this time capsule of the '80s, which originated as a sort of "<em>Goonies</em> Go Vampire" before Schumacher stepped in and sexified everything up.</p><p>Plus, "Cry Little Sister" (a lot), vampirism as a metaphor for oral sex, Kiefer Sutherland's "dance bars," a late-in-the-episode discussion of the film's two sequels and an anecdote about how <em>The Lost Boys</em> tricked Trace into reading Mormon propaganda.</p><p>References:</p><ul><li>Vrai Kaiser. "<a href="https://vraikaiser.com/2019/07/13/boys-beware-of-vampire-punks-queerness-in-the-lost-boys/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Boys Beware (of Vampire Punks): Queerness in The L</em></a><em>ost Boys". </em>Fashionable Tinfoil Accessories.</li><li>Alex Godfrey. "<a href="https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/lost-boys-joel-schumacher-making-of-interview-feature/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Lost Boys: Joel Schumacher On Making The Coolest Vampire Movie Of All Time</a>". Empire.</li></ul><p>Questions? Comments? Snark? Connect with the boys on <a href="https://twitter.com/HorrorQueers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/horrorqueers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV0QZBaB6yenX9xTPmCXkWg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Youtube</a>, <a href="https://letterboxd.com/horrorqueers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Letterboxd</a> and/or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HorrorQueers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, or join the <a href="http