Soooooo.....Max eats kids, right?
Like, preferentially and predominantly? @atowerdweller brought this up the other night and I am extremely inclined to agree. Ever since the musical managed to utterly cook my brain I feel like I've come to appreciate the movie more and more as an encoded object. Not just the queerness (again, on purpose), but connected to it and the movie's eternal battle with its script.
Schumacher packed so goddamn much of what he wanted to say into the visuals (granted the Boam draft I've seen is significantly different than the shooting script in some important ways, but it definitely does not say "Michael finally penetrates David (with antlers) and Kiefer Sutherland has the most heartbreaking o-face you ever goddamn saw").
And sure, having Anne Rice as a formative vampire text does make me rather primed to look for sexually predatory patriarchs in vampire stories. But we couldn't help but notice that in addition to Laddie's whole "the fuck is he doing here" energy, a lot of the background missing posters are specifically for kids.
And y'know what we don't see the boys do? Kill any kids. That's not to say I think they're above it (and no way was the movie gonna get away with killing a kid on screen in '87), but it just doesn't seem like the kind of challenge they'd find fun.
But Max has a jar of lollipops on his counter. Max is watching that lost kid on the boardwalk before Lucy walks into the scene and helps him. And Max is the one that nobody noticed pulling the strings behind the scary queer punks, because he looks like a fine upstanding member of society. Just like all those troop leaders in the Boy Scouts that abused kids for generations.
And boy does David look young after he gets stabbed, with his sideburns and stubble magically gone. Like he was, perhaps, hiding behind his hair. He goes from looking 20/21 to maybe even a little younger than Michael (who's 18ish).
This is largely vibes, mind, but 85% of talking about The Lost Boys is vibes. And it fits too well with one of the story's most interesting themes.
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