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[R.I.P.] ‘The Lost Boys’ Director Joel Schumacher Has Passed Away
We’ve learned the sad news today that legendary filmmaker Joel Schumacher, best known to horror fans as the director of 1987’s vampire classic The Lost Boys, has passed away.
Schumacher died at the age of 80 after a year-long battle with cancer, Variety reports.
Born in New York City, Joel Schumacher began his career as a costume designer before making his directorial debut with the 1974 TV movie Virginia Hill. He subsequently directed an impressive array of films across multiple genres including The Incredible Shrinking Woman, St. Elmo’s Fire, Cousins, Flatliners, Dying Young, Falling Down, The Client, Batman Forever, A Time to Kill, Batman & Robin, 8MM, Tigerland, Phone Booth, Veronica Guerin, The Phantom of the Opera (2004), The Number 23, Blood Creek, and most recently, 2011 thriller Trespass.
The Lost Boys actor Alex Winter paid tribute on Twitter this afternoon, writing: “Joel was a creative genius; a master at clothing design, costuming, writing and of course directing. Joel saw something in me as an actor I didn’t see and gave me the confidence and space to pursue it. Unfairly savaged by critics his entire career, his great work will live on.”
We couldn’t have said it any better ourselves. Rest in Peace to one of the greats.
“She’s mine, and I’m hers.”
The prison movie is a cornerstone of the cinematic landscape. Often adjacent to horror, there’s something inherently horrific about a building full of “convicts” jockeying for power. Criminal masterminds and the wrongfully convicted alike become pawns in a dehumanizing system and struggle to stay alive in the restrictive environment. Claire Denis pushes this genre to its outer limits with sci-fi and horror elements comparing incarceration to the prison of the human body. Her 2018 film High Life follows a group of prisoners turned astronauts who struggle to retain their humanity after the world has cast them out.
When we first meet Monte (Robert Pattinson), he’s raising a toddler on an isolated space station in the galaxy’s outer reaches. His daughter Willow was conceived through assault by fellow inmate Dr. Dibs (Juliette Binoche) as a part of her mission to reproduce in space. As Denis unpacks the story of this troubled crew, they slowly realize they have been discarded and forgotten. Some find freedom to enact their violent agendas while others try to retain a semblance of normalcy in the extreme environment. Essentially guinea pigs, Monte and his crewmates hurtle through space and grope for a reason to keep existing.
The Lady Killers continue Killer Moms Month with Claire Denis’ beautifully complex film. Co-hosts Jenn Adams, Mae Shults, Rocco T. Thompson, and Sammie Kuykendall chart the mysteries of the cosmos in their quest to understand the glacial plot. They’ll chat about screaming babies, space gardens, black holes and spaghetti along with heavier themes like reproduction and bodily autonomy. Why is Dr. Dibbs so obsessed with pregnancy? Why doesn’t Monte partake of the sex box? Does Mia Goth actually have a big booty and what really happened on that spaceship filled with dogs? They’ll approach the black hole and try to withstand spaghettification while zeroing in on the unpleasant themes of this exceptional film.
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