Beat Sheet: The Lost Boys

THE BLAKE SNYDER BEAT SHEET

Movie TITLE: The Lost Boys 1987

GENRE: Horror action-horror

DATE: November 3, 2000

1. Opening Image (1): Sam, Michael and their mother arrive in to Santa Carla California, Michael notices the build board that has graffiti on it saying this is the murder capital of the world.

2. Theme Stated (5): two sons and their mother move to Santa Carla, California where their mother’s father lives. They check out the store and attractions on the boardwalk they each meet different people. Michael the oldest son meets Star, Sam meets the Frog Brothers and Lucy meets Max. When Michael messes around with Star that’s when things start to go wrong.

3. Set-Up (1-10): Michael wants to have dinner with Star but when they’re about to leave David, the gang leader wants to have a motorcycle race with Michael. They start to have the race but then that’s when Michael almost goes over the edge of a sea cliff. He then punches David and tells Michael he has potential.

4. Catalyst (12): David and the gang take Michael to there underground lair, there they tell Michael to drink from a bottle of wine. Buts Star tells him its blood. He ignores her and drinks anyway.

5. Debate (12-25): Sam starts to notice Michael’s strange behaviors, he tells the frog brothers and ask him questions. They then confirm that Michael is a vampire.

6. Break into two (25): Lucy goes on her date with max while Michael leaves the house to go with the gang. Michael watches the gang kill and so he leaves.

7. B Story (30): Michael goes to the underground lair to find Star and explains to him that he’s a half vampire, they start to kiss then they have sex.

8. Fun and Games (30-55): Sam learns that they need to kill the head vampire to get all the half vampires back to human. So Lucy invites Max over for dinner. Sam invites the frog brothers also too. They attempt several vampire tests on Max, with garlic and mirrors he was unaffected by the test.

9. Midpoint (55): Sam and the frog brothers come up with a plan to go into David’s lair hoping to kill the head vampire. They kill a vampire and David wants revenge come sundown.

10. Bad Guys Close in (55-75): Michael, Sam, and the frog brothers prepare for the gangs attack. Sam kills one with an arrow; the other is knocked into the bathtub filled with holy water.

11. All is lost (75): Michael and David battle and throw each other into the wall. Finally Michael pushes David into deer antlers. He then dies.

12. Dark Night of the Soul (75-85): once they kill David they believe that everything is suppose to go back to normal but it doesn’t. They are still half vampire.

13. Break into three (85): max and Lucy come home from their date. Max reveals that he is the head vampire and he wants Lucy to be his mate.

14. Finale (85-110): max is about to bite Lucy’s neck but then her father crashes in with his jeep with large spike s on it, then runs into max killing him. The half vampires turn back into humans.

15. Final Image (110): Lucy’s father goes to the refrigerator grabbing a root beer saying "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach... all the damn vampires," so in the end he knew all along about the vampires.