The long hair wasn’t really the look Kiefer Sutherland was going for though.
The Lost Boys director Joel Schumacher was into the idea of Kiefer Sutherland’s David character having long hair, which makes sense for a movie about vampires.
This was the compromise that was reached to get The Lost Boys made between Kiefer Sutherland and Joel Schumacher.
Hot on the heels of that fresh Lost Boys music video, actor Kiefer Sutherland is sorry for popularizing the mullet hairstyle.