This Day in Halloween: Filmmaker Joel Schumacher -- director of "Flatliners" and "The Lost Boys" -- is born in New York in 1939. / Illustration by Scarlett Kirn
Joel Schumacher is born in New York in 1939. The filmmaker’s career started as a costume designer before he moved into writing, directing and producing. His films include The Lost Boys, Flatliners, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, The Phantom of the Opera, and Blood Creek. He died in 2020.
