Corey Haim dead at 38
Yeah very sad what happens to those who are exposed to fame at an early age. He brings back memories of my teens and i too was a sucker for his films. From license to drive to the lost boys. Sad, sad, sad may he rest in peace!
I always thought he was one of the few child actors that was better than his material
He is great in Lucas and adds a lot to silly movies like Dream a Little Dream and License to Drive
It’s sad but not very surprising. That said, Haim wasn’t much of an actor and had incredibly poor taste. Feldman was clearly the brains behind the operation. I’ll second The Lost Boys as a guilty pleasure and add Silver Bullet as a not entirely bad Stephen King adaptation although I don’t think that makes up for having to suffer through watching Jason Robards, Harry Dean Stanton and Piper Laurie slumming their ways through the Coreys’ body-switch dramedy Dream A Little Dream.
Haim was one of the few young actors I liked (even tho as u say he did have terrible taste in roles)
feldman had none of the talent.The 2nd worst part of this is how he may use poor Haim’s death to be back on tv.
Or ask to sing at Haim’s funeral. But you’re being too hard on Feldman. He made better movies than Haim and is pretty good in Stand By Me and The Goonies.
Not to change the mood and joke around, but I can’t help but think of that Simpsons episode where Homer says, “Geez, are all these guys named Corey??” when looking at Lisa’s teenybopper magazines.
for some reason i expected this years ago…one Corey down ,one to go…
“for some reason” – uh, yeah, I think that “some reason” would be lots and lots of drugs. His death now makes clips like this that much more poignant (but no less bizarre and unintentionally hilarious).
I was thinking suicide..but yeah drugs would def. speed up the process :D
corey haim in crank 2:high voltage
rest in peace
No way. That was HIM in CRANK 2? He was GREAT in that role! I had no clue till just now.
More child star roadkill.
he was a good reactor as much as an actor.
I really have a guilty pleasure love for the Fast Getaway films, Haim, Leo Rossi, and Cynthia Rothrock (the least wooden she was ever been).
Why is “The Lost Boys” a guilty pleasure, Ari?
Why feel “guilty” about it?
Why do people say the term “guilty pleasure” in connection to films they enjoy?
There are much bigger things in life people ought to feel guilty about…like Gucci-shoe stepping over the top of some homeless person on the street without a second thought, while you’re toting bags full of overpriced European designer trash clothing…or wasting time lining up to see Zac Efron walk down a red carpet into the multiplex, when classic films are playing in the art deco cinema down the road…seemingly recurring happenings in the toffy part of my city.
I positively adore films with Raquel Welch and I sure as hell don’t use that “guilty pleasure” B.S. cop-out. Nothing to feel guilty about there.
Very sad…when I was 11 I devoted a whole wall of my bedroom to pictures of Corey Haim and another to River Phoenix, now both are dead. Strange.
who were the others on your wall, Katherine?
Mark: oh, I’m just using the term in the conventional sense. I experience no actual feelings of guilt in watching The Lost Boys. But I’ll use the phrase because I am unable and unwilling to defend the film as being “good” in any qualitative sense of the term. I just don’t think any film in the Corey Haim oeuvre has any real artistic merit. Raquel Welch, on the other hand, may be of dubious acting abilities but she did make some good and/or interesting films like The Last of Sheila, the Three and Four Musketeers, Myra Breckinridge, and Mothers, Jugs and Speed. So there’s no shame in that game.
Katherine: Corey and River? How could you have room for both? To me, they were the polar opposites of the late 80s/early 90s teen heartthrob spectrum. The brooding, intelligent and talented one versus the unskilled, goofball dufus. I have vague memories of a 1-900 Corey telephone hotline at the height of Corey mania.
I saw him last year at a horror film festival in Indianapolis and I accidentally called him a whore. Well actually that’s what everyone thought I said, but it wasn’t. I was trying to ask him a question, I can’t remember what, and someone must have heard differently and everyone started laughing. He looked like he was pretty pissed.
@Prudence. Ummm…I was partial to Johnny Depp too but circa 21 Jump Street I’m ashamed to say :-).
‘Lucas’ was one of the first few Hollywood films I saw….big crush on Corey Haim at the time :) R.I.P
Dream A Little Dream is a mess but it is strangely edited for a film that was made in the late 80’s. it tries to be a little artistic and fails but i’ll give the director credit for at least trying.
last resort is the worse corey film i saw and one of the worst films ever.
last resort is bad but dream a little dream 2 is even worse
the most agreeable later Haim films were the Fast Getaway series imo
^^that’s a big call. They are both pretty terrible though.
what about Prayer of The Rollerboys? ;_)
I kind of like Prayer for the Rollerboys
I kind of like the fast getaway films too tho
I think Rothrock actually had some charisma in those films
and Leo Rossi is always enjoyable
Dennis Brian
Corey Haim was a very good childhood actor. He was fantastic in Lucas and Murphy’s Romance and of course Lost Boys. He was my favorite of the two corey’s, seemed like a sweet man who had some problems.
When he was given the chance at good material he was very good. And as I child of the 80s, I will miss him terribly.