Where was The Lost Boys filmed?
1987 film by Joel Schumacher, Richard Donner
The Lost Boys (1987) was filmed in Los Angeles County, Santa Cruz, Santa Clarita, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Santa Cruz Mountains, Palos Verdes Peninsula and 1 more place, 7 places named in its Wikipedia article, in the United States. Wikidata itself records the shoot only as California. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a statement, and every claim on this page says which it is.
Part of the Lost Boys film series
See them on the map → Wikipedia Source data
Places per Wikipedia's article
The article names 7 places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🏙 Towns & cities
Los Angeles County
🇺🇸 United States
county in California, United States
“Other locations included a cliffside on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County, used for the entrance to the vampire cave, and a valley in Santa Clarita near Magic Mountain, where introductory shots were filmed for the scene where Michael and the Lost Boys hang from a railway bridge.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Palos Verdes Peninsula
🇺🇸 United States
landform and a geographic sub-region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area
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🏙 Towns & cities
Santa Clarita
🇺🇸 United States
city in Los Angeles County, California, USA
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🏙 Towns & cities
Santa Cruz
🇺🇸 United States
city in and county seat of Santa Cruz County, California, United States
“Locations include the Santa Cruz Boardwalk, the Pogonip open space preserve, and the surrounding Santa Cruz Mountains.” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
🇺🇸 United States
amusement park in Santa Cruz, California
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Six Flags Magic Mountain
🇺🇸 United States
theme park located in Valencia, California
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Santa Cruz Mountains
🇺🇸 United States
mountain range in California, United States
Recorded only at country level
Wikidata also records this film as shot in California, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.
Filming locations that are mapped there: United States
Also shot in these places
- M*A*S*H 1972–1983
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006
- Desperate Housewives 2004–2012
- American Horror Story 2011–
- The Conjuring 2 2016
- My Name Is Khan 2010
- Bird Box 2018
- Insidious: The Last Key 2018
- Star Trek: Picard 2020–2023
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does The Lost Boys have?
No place recorded on Wikidata, but 7 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
M*A*S*H (1972–1983), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), Desperate Housewives (2004–2012), American Horror Story (2011–) and 5 more, each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.