I love love love this film. It seriously has always been an absolute favourite of mine and watching it today inspired me to devote a post to it.
The whole aesthetic of the film is to die for. The eighties in California was an absolute overload of colour, attitude and hair product. The film was set on the Santa Cruz boardwalk right on the sunny coastline. This location thanks to its fun park and sunny mass populated seaside atmosphere is the perfect place for a deep and dark underground of teenage vampires to thrive largely unnoticed. It is this mix of light and dark that is visually rich and stimulating and the perfect setting for a vampire movie.
The fashion too is worth note as it was achingly cool. The whole film is littered with worn t-shirts, faded denim and jackets that op shoppers would drool over. Accessories had that effortless look that was so appealing. Big eighties sunglasses, overloads of bangles, large drop feather earrings and colourful silk scarves. All of which were applicable to male and female characters. So often when trying to achieve this type of look yourself it looks too contrived or too deliberate. Take it slow and skimp on the hair gel.
oh yeah and go and watch this film...now!
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