Remember Corey Haim with The Lost Boys merchandise

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This week we got the news that actor Corey Haim had sadly passed away. But we don’t want you to dwell on this, so we’ve been revisiting one of his greatest movie roles; Sam Emerson in The Lost Boys. Way back in 1987 there wasn’t the same fascination we have with vampires now, yet the decade still gave us some great blood-sucking movies. There were ridiculous comedies like Once Bitten (starring a young Jim Carrey), brilliant kid’s films like The Monster Squad, The Hunger starring an ageing David Bowie and the interesting Near Dark. But the one we all know and love has to be The Lost Boys for its fantastic cast, soundtrack and script.

In the first draft of the film it was set to resemble The Goonies, with a bunch of kids hunting the vamps along with the “chubby 8-year-old cub scout” Frog brothers. But thankfully director Joel Schumacher told producers he would only sign on to the project if the characters were changed to teenagers. And the changes paid off with box office success and a movie that will be remembered for years. There was even a comic series The Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs, and in 2008 the sequel Lost Boys: The Tribe, starring Corey Feldman and Corey Haim, was released. There’s also a third instalment in the works, Lost Boys: The Thirst, which Corey Feldman both produces and stars in.

When divorcee Lucy (Dianne Wiest) moves her sons Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam to Santa Carla to live with her father, she couldn’t have known what was in store for them there. The town is plagued with trouble from gangs and unexplained disappearances, and it’s not until Sam meets the Frog brothers (Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander) that he realises what’s really going on. Michael becomes infatuated with local girl Star (Jami Gertz) and joins David’s (Kiefer Sutherland) gang in drinking blood and throwing themselves from railway tracks. But luckily Sam’s comic book reading has paid off and he realises what’s happening to his brother and enlists the Frog brothers to help.

The Lost Boys has a real eighties charm to it that only gets better the more you watch it. The cool soundtrack, featuring artists like Roger Daltrey, Echo & The Bunnymen and Gerard McMann, has become one of the most loved of those from the decade. The costumes are also fantastic; a mixture of typical 80s tee’s and trainers with the New Romantic style of the vamps. And it’s given us some great quotes; who could forget Michael’s fear of his noodles turning into worms and David saying: “They’re only noodles Michael.” And it’s these factors that have spawned some really cool merchandise, including a T-shirt featuring that very quote.

We’ve put together our favourite merchandise so you can relive the movie in all its glory. There’s the DVD of the first and more recent second movie, the fantastic soundtrack and even some great NECA figures of David and Michael. And we’ve found a selection of great T-shirts featuring different quotes and images from the iconic eighties vampire movie. Or why not hang the iconic poster on your wall, featuring David, Star and the gang on a bright red background?