Mullet-heavy vampire tale with Kiefer and co

Long before Twilight, this cult, comedyinflected horror made being a teenage vampire look stylish – if very 1980s. A cash-strapped single mum takes her sons, Michael and Sam, to live with their cantankerous grandfather in a crime-ridden town on the California coast. Sam is initially sceptical when two comic-obsessed brothers tell him the high murder rate is down to vampires, but he’s forced to think again when Michael falls in with a gang who party all night and sleep all day... Kiefer Sutherland is a suitably charismatic bloodsucker, Coreys Feldman and Haim provide decent comic relief and Jason Patric is moodily attractive as Michael.

It’s also a fitting tribute to the late director Joel Schumacher. BBC iPlayer, from Friday