The Story of the Coreys

They were the teen idols of the 1980s. Corey Feldman and Corey Haim lit up movie screens, magazine covers, and the hearts of an entire generation. In this episode, we rewind the VHS to explore how these two child stars took Hollywood by storm, how they met, and why their on-screen chemistry became legendary.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome back to Children of the Eighties. I am one
of your hosts, Jim and I am joined as always
by the lady who would let me write in her
Mercedes no matter what. It's my co host, Lindsay if
I had one, you do have one. It's a it's
a matchbox. It's like I do. Is it in the

(00:38):
room with us right now? It's a hot wheel? Am
I driving it right this very moment? Oh? How you doing?
I'm all right, How are you doing? I'm doing great? Yeah,
it's time for another episode, and I'm pretty pumped up
about this one.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yes, I'm excited about this episode. But before we talk
about what today is all about, let's talk a little
bit about what we got coming up, or maybe what
came out yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Or what came out over the weekend. Yeah, so we
were on Brian Colburn's show, My Weekly Mixtape, and we
were talking eighties MTV videos and that just dropped on
Sunday night slash Monday morning. So that's still fresh out there.
Take a listen if you haven't already. Yeah, it was

(01:30):
a lot of fun. We dive into I don't want
to say deep ones, iconic ones. Right, most people are
going to know these yeah, and it's going to be
a lot of fun. So and it was a lot
of fun, So listen up, as they say.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
And we recorded a couple of interviews over the weekend
with some folks that'll be coming up in future episodes.
And I think both interviews went really well and I
can't wait for everybody to hear them.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, yeah, I think they're going to be a blast.
One is about eighties music, and another one is about
eighties baseball and specifically the nineteen eighty five World Series.
But yeah, I geeked out on both of them. But
I really geeked out on the eighty five World Series
one because that is fresh in my memory forever. So
back up a little bit.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
You mentioned something about eighties music. Can I share something
that I saw on social media in the last few days?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, let me know what you got.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Foreigner has announced several tour dates the end of twenty
twenty five with original singer Lou Grew No Way, Yes.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Lou's coming back now. I like the other singer. I
like the alternate singer. I like him just fine. But
I've seen him a couple of times in concert, and
I've never seen Lou grahamon concert, so I'd love to
see that.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
It'll be shows the first part to mid December. The
headline said in the on the East Coast. So I
got kind of excited because I guess Atlanta sort of
the east coast, but when.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
I looked closer, it's more like the north East.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, so it's I want to say, like three shows
in New York, a couple in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and maybe
a New Jersey thrown in there.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Not going south of the Mason Dixon line. Yeah, I
don't think he's allowed to what is he? John Wilkes Booth,
But I know how much.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
You love Foreigner and especially Lou Graham, and so I
thought you would have been interested to hear that.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Now I'm feeling midnight blue, I know, right, because I
won't be able to attend. I wonder if he still
sounds anything like he used to. I you know, it's
gotta be tough. I mean, it's been more than forty years.
It's been forty five more than forty five years since
they started. I know, right, Why do you have to
do that? Listen? You can't always be a jukebox hero

(03:54):
for the rest of your life. So last week we
covered the Goonies with James from Bad Movies Rule and
we had a lot of fun doing that one. And
so because we were covering the Goonies and one of
the stars of the Goonies is Corey Feldman, we decided
that this week we're going to dive into Corey Feldman

(04:18):
and Corey Ham, affectionately known as the Corris as they
were a thing in the mid to late eighties and
maybe even early nineties, but more mid to late eighties,
which is where we're sticking at for this episode. Here
we go, I got some for you. What do you got?

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Last episode that we did was titled The Jameses.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
It was episode is titled The Cory. I don't think
it was titled the Jameses. But okay, to Jameses, the
too Jameses. And now we're doing the two Corries. Is
it the two James' or the two James? It may
it might be James and then apostrophe and then no
us after it. Okay, So to James, to James, it

(05:04):
sounds like a rat name. To James to James over
there are you doing? Okay? I don't think either one
of us are getting down with the rat, but I
don't know, probably not. You know, I'm surprised when we
did our little intro, you didn't mention anything about old
Reese Witherspoon and George Burns. Daty. Can we back up

(05:26):
and do that for just a minute. Okay.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
So you are the intellectual of this relationship. I am
whatever the opposite. I'm a simpleton of this relationship. So
while you're over there reading the Washington Post every day,
I'm over here reading People dot Com.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Well, well, let's make something clear. I don't read the
Washington Post every day.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
I mean every morning at breakfast, you eat, you're toasted
many wheats, and read your paper.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, that's what I do. It's all of a sudden,
it's nineteen eighty again, Yeah it is.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
So I was reading people dot Com this afternoon and
saw a picture that I had to then go and
investigate a little bit closer. Reese Witherspoon divorced her second
husband a couple of years ago.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
I believe she is now forty nine. That what I say,
A couple years younger than me. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
So she's forty nine years old and she's gone on
a fancy summer vacation with the George Burns with the
reincarnation of George Burns, and so I forwarded you the picture,
and I said, this should give older gentlemen all over
the world.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
A little pep in their step this afternoon, a little hope. Boys,
if you're out there and you're single, and you're old,
and you're thinking that all you can get is Granny
from the Beverly Hillbillies, I got news for you. Reese
is available, and she ain't afraid to dig up a
bye out of a coffin and go on vacation with him.

(07:03):
He's gray fellas, there's hope. He's scrawny and gray and
old and balding. He's like, uh, he's like that old
guy on Big Daddy. Do you know? Do you know
what I heard?

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Though?

Speaker 1 (07:18):
What? He's very wealthy. No, you don't say, Well, he's German,
so you know, no offense to the Germans. I mean,
I am one. He has some some sharp lines, sharp lines,

(07:38):
So does he have blurred lines?

Speaker 2 (07:40):
He's like, who is it mister Burns on the Simpsons. Yes, yeah, okay,
he's got some sharp lines. So I don't know what
this is, but I know what this means. He's a financier.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
He's a financier. Yeah, what is that, mister French, which
is weird for a German. Mister mister money pants, what
is that? He juggles money? He juggles money. Yeah, he's
a jester apparently with money. What is a financier? Somebody
who is rich.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
That's exactly exactly it. So they look they're in some public,
open body of water. I don't know, a lake, a pond.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
I bet it's a lagoon. If he's rich, it's a lagoon.
Looks murky.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
So I don't know if it's a lagoon, but they
are definitely posed and they're very intimate, and it's making
me a little nauseous.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well, yeah, because he's one hundred and thirty and we
still think of his Witherspoon being like twenty five.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, and maybe that's where the disconnect comes in, you know,
much like we have a hard time accepting our own.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Mortality.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
We're having a hard time accepting Reese Witherspoon's mortality.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Well, and I'm having a hard time accepting this dude's
immortality because he fought in the Civil War. Well what
that said? Good for them if they're happy, I'm happy.
If people are happy together. That doesn't do anything for
my life at all. It doesn't make it seems like

(09:12):
the right thing this is. It doesn't make me happy
or unhappy. I will say, hey, old Vella's you got
a chance? You might you got a chance if you're
a financier and financier, yeah, finan financier. I don't know
how to say it. I just I know how it's
filled deal with money all day, but not like this.

(09:34):
I don't deal with Scrooge McDuck money. Okay, you ready
to get to it.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
This is a podcast that looks back on the decade
of the nineteen eighties. We talk about things that were
important to us as children and what we look back
on with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is a
nostalgia podcast, yes.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
And we are talking about the Corries today. We're getting
nostalgic about the Corries, both of them younger than Reese's boyfriend.
But now we're going to dive into this because I
don't know if you know this or not, but back
in the mid to late eighties, like the Corries were it.

(10:22):
They were a big thing. I heard and I wanted
to see all of their movies did you want to
be them? I wanted to hang around them for sure.
They were a few years older than me, which we'll
get into. But before they were teen heart throbs, and
before the magazine posters and the MTV interviews and their

(10:43):
matching leather jackets and their wild nights in Hollywood, they
were just two kids, Corey Hammon, Corey Feldman, and they
were on a crash course with fame. And today we're
going to take you deep into their lives that shape them,
the forces that bonded them, and the movie that launched
one of the most iconic duos of the nineteen eighties.

(11:05):
This is the story of the Corries. You like that,
The story of the Corries, the story of the Cory.
It could be the Cory story, all right. So Corey
Feldman was born first. He was born July sixteenth, nineteen
seventy one, in Risita, California. His father, Bob Feldman, was

(11:25):
a musician who co wrote hits like My Boyfriend's Back
and I Want Candy by Bow Wow Wow. Oh that's
a eighties one hit. Wonder Wow Wow Wow. He was
a member of the band The Strange loves Ah. That

(11:45):
sounds vaguely familiar.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
So they promoted themselves as being Australian because that was
at a time when it was thought that gentlemen with
accents would be more popular.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
But they were not. They weren't Australian. They weren't popular.
They were not Australia. But my Boyfriend's Back, that's a
huge hit. His mother, Sheila Feldman, was a cocktail waitress
and former playboy model, which, let me explain some things
here sounds like a bad combo. Well, turns out she

(12:18):
was highly controlling, managing his career and his life tightly.
And that was Corey, not the dad. The dad could
have liked kicked her to the curb because he wrote
My Boyfriend's Back, I think took off for the hills
pretty quickly. Oh you think, so okay. So Corey Feldman
started acting at age three, appearing in commercials, and by

(12:39):
the age of nine he had been in over one
hundred commercials. He grew up very isolated from his peers,
obviously because he spent time acting and auditioning all that stuff.
His social life was really just the studios and sets,
and by the time he was ten he had been
in The Bad News Bears, the TV show, not the

(13:01):
movie Eight is Enough with Dick van Patten and an
episode of Cheers, And he was in an episode of
Mork and Mindy. And this was all before he was
starring in movie. Yes, this was because because by the
time he was ten, So that would have been nineteen
eighty one. Wow. Right, So Mork and Mindy Nanu Nanu
my brother uh so, But nineteen eighty four would be

(13:29):
his big breakout year. He would simultaneously cause havoc by
getting Gizmo Wet and Grimlins, which would eventually lead to
a whole city being destroyed. However, he would redeem himself
by finally putting an end to Jason Voorhees and Friday
the Thirteenth the final chapter. But fame at a young

(13:54):
age also comes with a price. He was exposed to
drug and partying early later, he revealed that he was
sexually abused by a man in the industry, a secret
that he wouldn't speak publicly about for years, and fame
wasn't freeing to him, it was really more of a trap.

(14:15):
He became the breadwinner for his family, but felt like
he had been emotionally abandoned, and in an interview he
said I was never a kid. I was a product. Okay.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
So you gave us the initial rundown of Corey Feldman. Yes,
I chose to talk about Corey Hame. So let me
give you his early years.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Okay, So from hockey rinks to Hollywood. Oh, what do
you think about that? Well?

Speaker 2 (14:44):
He was born two days before Christmas on December twenty third,
nineteen seventy one, in Toronto, Ontario.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
He was shy.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
He was a sensitive kid who loved hockey and didn't
really consider acting at first. His mom enrolled him in
draw my classes to help him overcome his shyness and anxiety. No, well, okay,
So early his early career he landed TV roles on
Canadian shows like The Edison Twins.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Are they like the Doublemint Twins. I think it's more
like the Bopsey Twins. Okay, I don't even know what
that means. You don't know the Bopsey Twins. No, okay.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
His first major film was called Firstborn, and it came
out in nineteen eighty four, opposite Sarah Jessica Parker and
Robert Downey Junior. His breakout role was Lucas two years later,
in nineteen eighty six, where he played a nerdy, vulnerable
teen in love, raw and authentic. I think if Corey
Haym did anything well, it was those two things. So

(15:45):
the turning point to his career came in a nineteen
eighty six when he did Lucas. It brought him serious acclaim.
Haym was seen as a potential like next big thing
in Hollywood. They were charmed by his boyish charisma, but
like Feldman, he too was thrown into a high pressure
adult world way too early, so he was exposed to

(16:06):
drugs at a young age. Later said he was given
crack cocaine at the age of fifteen. He would struggle
with addiction for most of his life. He described Hollywood
as a machine. If you're not working, they forget you.
If you're working, they use you. It's a quote from
Corey Haym.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Wow. Yeah, that's rough and really sad. You know a
lot of child stars go through this, and some make
it out and some don't. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
I think if the story shows us anything, it's that
one made it out and one didn't.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
They were the faces of a generation, the cool kid
with the edge and the sweet kid with a heart.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
From Vampire Hunting in Santa Clara, to Joy Writing and
Stolen Cadillacs. Corey Feldman and Corey Ham didn't just star
in eighties movies. They defined them. But behind the fame
was a story most people never saw. This is that story.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Welcome to Children of the eighties and our tribute to
the rise, fall and legacy of.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
The two Corris. So at some point the Corries became
marketing gold and it was really after The Lost Boys.
That was the first movie that they started together. We'll
get into that in a little bit. But the studios
saw their chemistry and you remember watching The Lost Boys
a few years ago, right, Yeah, And weren't they just

(17:32):
fantastic together. Corey Feldman was really kind of like the
cool kid and you know, with a with a little
bit more life experience and maybe a little bit more
of an edge, whereas Corey Haym had the charisma, but
he was sweet and he was vulnerable, and they both
kind of played those roles really well in several movies,

(17:55):
but specifically The Lost Boys. The Lost Boys. The next year,
Licensed to Drive came out, and this was the movie
that I went to see in the theater because The
Lost Boys when I rented The Lost Boys, the Corries
had me really yes, and so I'm going to see
License to Drive in the theater. Felman played cool and

(18:18):
Ham played sweet, and then the third year in a row.
So nineteen eighty seven was The Lost Boys, nineteen eighty
eight was Licensed to Drive. Nineteen eighty nine became Dream,
a little Dream, a trippy, spiritual kind of body swap
story that became a cult favorite like Freaky Friday a
little bit. We'll get into that again because we're going

(18:40):
to cover all these movies later, but yeah, those were
the three in the eighties that they started together.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yep, okay, So this launched them into teen idle status.
So things like Tiger Beat, Bop teen fan mags exploded
with the Corries.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
On the cover. Did you have the Corris on on
a teen?

Speaker 2 (19:00):
So I was buying the Tiger Beat, the Bot Magazine,
all of those, but I was buying it for new
kids on the block.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
So the Corries were in there, but I was I
was bipped. They were just getting in your way. They
were they were slowing me down. Well, you know what,
they slowed a lot of people down in life.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
So they tore it together, party together, were even managed
as a package deal. At one time, the two corries
were Hollywood's answer to Beatlemania.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
For Gen xers. You think I do? Okay, I do?
I mean yeah, they were pretty huge there for a
couple of years for sure. I uh and Beatlemania. That's
that's some strong words, but I'll give it to you.
But behind those smiles came addiction, trauma abuse. Eventually, Corey

(19:50):
Haym's drug use became increasingly public, and Corey Feldman tried
to help him, but he was also dealing with his
own demons. Thinking hanging out with Michael Jackson probably didn't
help any of those. That was definitely not a good idea.
So they were two kids trying to survive an industry
built for grown ups, and what started as a bond

(20:14):
between the co stars became a friendship divined by loyalty, tragedy,
and the high cost of fame. So you're ready to
get into their filmography, Let's do it all right. Some
were classics, some were cult hits, and some well we
loved them anyway. Let's take a ride through the highs,

(20:36):
the lows, and the most Corey Corey movies of the
nineteen eighties. Corey Corey Corey. So the first movie that
either one of them was in was nineteen eighty one,
and it was actually just Corey Feldman as the voice
of young Copper in The Fox and the Hound. So

(21:12):
The Fox and the Hound had a box office of
sixty three and a half millions. It scores seventy five
percent on the Majer Meter and seventy eight percent on
the Popcorn Meter. A little bit about it. After his
mother is killed, Todd, the Fox played by Mickey Rooney,
is taken in by the kindly widow Tweed played by

(21:32):
Jeanette Nolan. He soon befriends the neighbor's new hound dog, Copper,
who played by Kurt Russell, but when Copper was young,
it was Corey Feldman. The two are inseparable, but their
friendship is hampered by their masters and by the fact
that they are by nature enemies. They grow apart as
they grow older. Copper has become a strong hunting dog
and Todd a wild fox. The pair must overcome their

(21:54):
inherent differences in order to salvage their relationship. So what
are your thoughts on The Fox and the Hound? Have
you ever seen it?

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh? Yeah, absolutely, I've seen the fox in the Hound
and for a girl growing up in the eighties, I.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Thought this was like a staple. So how much does
Corey Feldman deserve of that sixty three and a half million?
He deserves about five hundred dollars. I thought you were
going to give him maybe a half million or so. Oh, Josh,
now you're good on five hundred dollars, all right. The

(22:28):
next movie Corey Feldman stars in nineteen eighty four, and
he plays a character called Tommy Jarvis. And I bet
our people can guess what this is if they don't know,
just by this music. That is Friday the thirteenth, the

(23:03):
final chapters. Yes, a box office of just thirty three million,
two on the Mayer. Oh that's not very nice. Fifty
two on the popcorn meter. Oh that's not nice either. Well,
it's better than the twenty two percent, I guess. A
carefree lakeside vacation is interrupted by the reemergence of killer

(23:25):
Jason Vorhees played by Ted White the best Jason Vorhees,
by the way. After he escaped from a morgue, leaving
bodies in his wake, Jason travels to Camp Crystal Lake,
where a group of friends is staying. The teens meet
some locals Tommy played by Corey Feldman and Trish played
by Kimberly Beck, his older sister, as well as secretive

(23:47):
hiker Rob played by Eric Anderson. As the group of
teenagers engage in drunken debauchery, their numbers begin to dwindle
and pieces of the past resurface. They slowly start disappearing.
One yes, now, I want you to know that a
year before Back to the Future came out, Crispin Glover
is in Friday the thirteenth, the final chapter. I don't

(24:09):
think I knew that, And he dances around like a fool,
looking like a complete idiot. I don't know what kind
of dance he was doing, but it was insane and
for that he got macheted. But it's Corey Feldman who
takes down Jason in this final chapter of Friday the thirteenth.

(24:30):
Until it wasn't the final chapter. Right of Friday the thirteenth,
when they say it's the final chapter, that's a great
way of knowing. It's not the final chapter until nineteen
eighty five. But as a ten year old, I thought
that this truly was the final chapter, and that Corey
Feldman had knocked out Jason Borehe's for good. She had
done what no one else could do. He was a

(24:52):
bad Yeah. You almost weren't quick enough for me. I'm
pretty quick. Grave there bang, shooting at the walls. A heartache.
Uh yeah, So it was Corey Feldman. You know, people
had thought that Jason had been taken care of in
the past, but they never really knocked him out for good.
Corey Feldman boh for good until it wasn't all right.

(25:17):
Same year, nineteen eighty four, Corey Feldman again as Pete
Fontaine in Grimlins. So Grimlins had a box office of

(25:44):
two hundred and twelve point nine million dollars. That scores
an eighty seven percent on the major meter and seventy
eight percent on the popcorn meter. So the critics like
it actually better than the audience, do Hey. The synopsis
here for this one, which we've talked about in the past.
But a gadget salesman is looking for a special gift
for a son and finds one at a store in Chinatown.

(26:06):
The shopkeeper is reluctant to sell him the magua, but
sells him to him with the warning to never expose
him to bright light water, or to feed him after midnight.
All of this happens, and the result is a gang
of Grimlins that decide to tear up the town on
Christmas Eve. So what are your thoughts on this one.

(26:28):
We've talked about this in the past.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, you know, his character in Grimlins drove me crazy
because it's Pete's fault that Gizmo got wet and started
multiplying and that's when all the problems started.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
So I just felt like he was a buffoon in
this movie. So this would be the first time that
Corey Feldman would cause trouble, but not the last. Last
all right, the next movie is moving on to Your Guy,
also nineteen eighty four.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
It is called Born nineteen eighty four where Corey Ham
plays Brian Livingston. It was the anti Grimblins. It had

(27:23):
a box office of six point three million on a
budget of eight million.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
So oops, yeah, not good, oopsy daisy.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
It was thirty six percent on the Mayor Meter, fifty
four percent on the Popcorn Meter.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
So let me give you a little rundown of what
this movie was about.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
A teen played by Christopher Collette protects his divorced mother
played by Terry Garr.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Now there's an eighty's name if there's ever been one.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Protects his mother from her boyfriend played by Peter Weller,
a drug dealer in a black four wheel.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
You gotta watch out for those black four wheelers. You
gotta watch out for those drug dealers. What are your
thoughts on this? That sounds horrendous?

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, Corey Haane doesn't even get top three billing, but
I could totally see him being Terry Garson. Yeah, I
haven't seen it, but the thirty six percenter meter, I'd
rather go, well, get him watch Friday the thirteen. I
don't think we've missed it. No, I don't think so.
All right, now we are back to my guy for
nineteen eighty five The Goonies, which we talked about last week,

(28:35):
starring Corey Feldman, amongst others, as Clark Mouth Devereaux, a

(28:55):
box office of only sixty eight million, which is somewhat
disappointing considering Gremlins did two hundred and twelve U seventy
seven percent on the Mayor Meter ninety one percent on
the Popcorn Meter. When two brothers find out they might
lose their house, they are desperate to find a way
to keep their home. They find a treasure map and
bring some friends along to find it. Find the treasure. Uh,

(29:18):
they're all out looking for the X and trying to
get away from a group of bad guys who also
want the treasure. I mean, that's a pretty simplistic way
of to do it. But you know what, we just
talked about it last week. So it's a booby trap.
That's what I said, booby trap.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
You know, Star Studding Cast one of the great movies
of the eighties, got a whole lot more to say. Really,
there's not a pretty good score too here that we're
underplaying us here.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
If if you want to hear more about it, and
you haven't listened to last week's episode, just pause this
one and.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Go on to that one. I love that nice throwback there,
all right.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
The next is my guy, Corey Ham nineteen eighty five.
He was in a movie called.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Silver Bullet played a character Marty Kostlaw. Now I see
you over there laughing. Why are you laughing? Did I
mispronounce something? No, I don't know. I would have pronounced

(30:21):
that coslaw. It could be coast law, could be baked beans.
I don't know. Marty baked beans. So I did not
say Coleslaw. Okay, how would you say it? I would
say Coslaw, but I mean that's not at all how

(30:41):
it's spelled. Okay, whatever coast law. Who gives um? Okay?
Silver bullet?

Speaker 2 (30:50):
At a box office of twelve point four million dollars,
it got a forty three percent on the mader meter
and a fifty six percent on the popcorn Meaner.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
Let me give you a quick synopsis.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
When a series of unexplained murders. Now that music we
just listen to does not fit with murders, so okay uh.
When a series of unexplained murders occurs in the normally
quiet town of Tarker's Mill, the residents decide to hunt
down the killer.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
However, many of these.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Vigilantes end up dead, and those who don't are no
closer to finding an assailant.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
But when a young.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Wheelchair using boy named Marty coleslog Comes encounters a were
wolf one night, the pieces begin to come together. Along
with his sister and uncle Red, played by none other
than Gary Busey, Marty begins a mission to capture the werewolf.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Once in for all boy, that sounds like something else. Well,
here's the deal. At some point we're gonna watch this
for Halloween episode. I loved this movie as a kid. Really, yes,
Corey Hame love the Coreys and Gary Busey. I mean,
who doesn't like Gary Busey. And this may have been

(32:09):
the first time that I saw Gary Busey, and I
immediately loved Gary Busey, and so then therefore, when I
saw him playing a bad guy in Lethal Weapon a
few years later, I was like, what not a bad guy?
He's a good guy. But he played a great bad
guy too, So I love this movie. This is based
on the Stephen King book cycle of the Werewolf. This
is one of the few movies that actually do the

(32:31):
book justice in my opinion. Really yeah, good, okay, and
so well, you'd probably think it was horrible, but I
loved it. Gary Busey is Corey Haym's uncle, Like, what
could go wrong there? Let's just let them loose together.
So that's like two of my favorite crazy actors from
the eighties. But really, I do love this movie, and

(32:54):
we will at some point on a Halloween be covering it.
I'm gonna hold you to that, all right. Next movie
I believe is also you. Yes, it's me again.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
So nineteen eighty five, the movie called Murphy's Romance. Corey
Ham played Jake Moriarty. Don't give me crap about that
kissed like love?

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Oh loved me like a friend. Oh that's confusing. I'm
getting some weird feeling. Yes, okay.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
In a box office of thirty point seven million dollars
and got a seventy two percent on the Manner Meter
seventy six percent on the popcorn Meter.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
That song is horrendous. It is terrible, and you probably
won't be surprised by this. It's Carol King. Oh goodness,
that explains a lot, does he? Okay, what'd she say?

Speaker 2 (33:55):
You kissed me like a lover, but you loved me
like a friend. I mean, just right there, just stop,
just stop.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
You should have just said thank you for being a friend.
Traveled down the road and back again, So listen this. Obviously,
it seems like it must be a good movie because
it gets seventy six percent of the popcorn Meter. But
that song right there makes me never ever ever want
to view this movie.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
That song makes me want to never view another movie
ever as long as I live.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
That song makes me want to poke my ear drums
up the synopsis.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Listen, it's got Sally Field, Oh, thank goodness and James Gardner.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yes, okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Emma played by Sally Field, a divorced single mother seeking
to start her life over, moves to a small town
in Arizona. She builds a relationship with Murphy played by
James Gardner, the older local pharmacist, but due to his age,
it remains platonic. Is this Reese Witherspoon might be day,

(34:53):
I'm so grossed out. Their friendship becomes complicated when Emma's
ex husband, Bobby Jack Bobby Jack.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
You can't ever go right with a Bobby Jack Bobby
Jack Brian Kerwin, I don't know who that is shows up.
He claims to have changed his cheating way, but when
he turns out to be the.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Same old Bobby Jack that Emma divorced, she discovers her
true tingly feelings for Murphy.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
All right, So once again, Corey Haym gets like fourth
billing on this one. We never even mentioned Corey Hayman this,
I know, I know, so I've never seen it. I
never even really heard of it. But it gets good scores,
So is it worth watching? The whole question to you. Also,
I saw some still shots from the film. James Gardner
looks like he came straight from South Fork to star

(35:46):
in this movie. He's got a cowboy hat on and everything.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yes, yeah, he would. I can I can see that
James Gardner would make a good cowboy.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yeah, yeah, I can see that James Gardner. Ronald Reagan. Uh,
James Garner could play Ronald Bregan as far as I'm concerned.
He kind of looked like Ronnie in that uh, you know,
on his ranch as he got older. Hey, neither one
of them playing anything right now? Well they might be
Dayton Rees Witherspoon for all we know, play in the harp.

(36:16):
All right, you also get the next wee. You've got
three three uh Haynes in a row. Here.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Finally we're getting to something worth talking about. Nineteen eighty six,
the movie Lucas Corey Haym played Lucas bly at a

(36:42):
box office of eight point two million dollars. It has
a seventy six percent on the Mayd Demeter and a
seventy percent on the Pops Or.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
Here's my question. If it got good critics scores, good
audience scores, why did it only make eight point two movies. No,
I don't know, okay. Synopsis.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Lucas is an unusually bright teenager whose nerdy looks and
meek demeanor make him a favorite target for bullies. His
life at schal seems to improve when he befriends Maggie
played by Carrie Green, a cute new girl whose love
interest Cappy played by Charlie Sheen.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
This is when, uh, this is probably when Corey got
into the drugs. Hanging out with Charlie Sheen.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Cory Hame's life went south protects him from harassment. However,
despite his friend Rena's clear affection for him. Rena played
by a Why No noa Rider, Lucas falls for Maggie and,
in a final effort to impress her, joins the high
school football team.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
So a couple of things here. One eighty five Feldman
gets to star with Carrie Green in the Goonies. She
was in the Goonies. That's eighty six. Ham gets to
star with Carrie Green in Lucas. Now I have some

(38:01):
thoughts on this, Okay. Kerry Green gets to experience the
Corey's Charlie Sheen Wanona writer in this. So it's got
some stars, right, it's got some eighty stars, big cast,
but Corey Haym finally gets top billing in this cast,
and to me, this is the movie that turned around
his career and made him a star, even though it

(38:22):
got crap at the box office. So I reached out
to some friends oh about this movie, and our buddy
Jason Colvin from the Shirley You Can't Be Serious podcasts says,
Lucas is a sweet movie, but if a kid takes
off his helmet in the field to play, the game
is stopped. Plus he jumped off sides about a thousand times,

(38:44):
so I enjoyed that. Thanks Jason for that. Jason getting
all technical on us. Yeah here, okay, all right, you're
ready to move on to the next movie in nineteen
eighty six, which is my guy, Corey Feldman in one
of the great movies of the eighties, as he plays
character Teddy Douke Champ And I'll just let you I

(39:06):
won't even name the movie, You'll just know by this
music when the night has come and the land is dog.

(39:28):
So this is stand by Me starring Corey Felban and
Jerry O'Connell and Will Wheaton and River Phoenix got a
box office a fifty two point three million, and this
is by far our highest scores for either critics or audience,
ninety two on the Mayor Meter, ninety four percent on

(39:48):
the Popcorn meter. And you know what, I'm gonna go
out on a limb. I'm gonna throw down the gauntlet here.
This is the best movie on the list. This movie,
stand by Me is the best movie on this list. Really, Yes.
After learning that a stranger has been accidentally killed near
their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see

(40:10):
the body. On the way, Gordi Luchan's played by Will Wheaton,
Vern Tessio played by Jerry O'Connell, Chris Chambers played by
River Phoenix, and Teddy Duchamp played by Corey Felman encounter
a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches
as they also learn more about one another in their
very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the

(40:30):
boys adventure involves into a divining event in their lives.
What are your thoughts on this movie? I do think
that this is one of the best coming of age
movies of all time. That's for sure. Meat had directed it. Yep,
four buddies. You know, young of age experience a lot
on a weekend trip. Plus Keefer Keifer was mean in

(40:52):
this one and the next one. So there was a
critics consensus on it, and it said stand By Me
is a wise, nostalgic movie with a weird streak that
captures both Stephen King's voice and the trials of growing up.
So did you know that Stephen King actually wrote? I
did not the book that inspired stand by Me. The
book is called The Body, and stand by Me follows

(41:15):
the book again pretty darn well. Wow. So Stephen King
doesn't do just horror. He does a lot of other
stuff and including one of them.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
All.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Right, now we finally get to the movie that brought
together the Corris. I love that song and that that

(41:48):
might be the best song on this list.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Nineteen eighty seven, both Cory's starred in The Lost Boys
box office of thirty two and a half million dollars.
It got seventy five percent on the Mader Meter eighty
five percent on the popcorn Meter. Don't think it's necessary,
but I'm gonna give you a synopsis anyways. Teenager brothers

(42:12):
Michael played by Jason Patrick and Sam played by Corey Ham,
move with their mother, Diane Weist, to a small town
in northern California, while the younger Sam meets a pair
of kindred spirits and geeky comic book nerds Edward, which
is where Corey Feldman comes in, and Alan Jamison Newlander,

(42:34):
the angst written Michael soon falls for Star played by
Jamie Gertz, who turns out to be enthrall to David.
There we go again, another key for Sutherland sighting leader
of a local gang of vampires.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
Of course, which we didn't know at the beginning. Sam
and his new friends must save Michael and Starr from
the dead. Yes, so, my guy Corey Felman played the
character Edgar Frog, vampire hunter with military intensity.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
My guy Corey Ham played Sam Emerson, the stylish kid
brother who buys vampire comics and rocks and epic bathtub
sing along.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
So we saw this a couple of years ago. Yes,
would you say that this still holds up?

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah, Killer soundtrack vampires finally look young and cool rather
than old and freaky looking, although Kiefer was pretty scary
looking in this at times when he got mad, and
so was uh Bill from Bill and Ted Alex Winter
was also one of the vampires. I think he's the
one who bit it upside down when they were hanging

(43:46):
upside down in a sleep. But yeah, just another star
studying cast. I love the name the Frog Brothers. I
just love the Frog Brothers. And I love how Feldman
and his brother knew all of vampires and like they said,
the military intensity. You know, they were like little tackleberries

(44:06):
but you know, hunting vampires. And Corey Haym's vulnerability. He's
kind of nerdy, but he's very vulnerable and sweet. And
then Keifer and Feldman in another movie again together back
to back years. All right, So now we're gonna move
on to the movie that I went to see in
the theater after seeing The Lost Boys on video, I'm like,
all right, next Corey movie I'm going to see in

(44:28):
the theater. And I'm getting to be about driving age anyway,
and so this was just for me on the scene.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
Tell me what you do.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Listen you on the scene. So this is licensed to
drive both of them start in it box office of
only twenty two point four million dollars. I would have
thought with the promotion that it got, it would have
been a lot more only gets twenty four percent from
the critics on the mader meter sixty two percent on

(45:04):
the popcorn Meter. Of course, the audience is always gonna
love the Corries more than the critics, so this is
what the movie's about. Teenager Les Anderson thinks his life
can't get any worse after he flunks his driver's exam,
but he's wrong. Even though he didn't receive his license,
Less refuses to break his date with the cool Mercedes
Lane now is that not an eighties character? Name or what?

(45:26):
Played by Heather Graham, and he decides to lift his
family's prize luxury car for the occasion. Unfortunately, Mercedes sneaks
some booze along and passes out drunk, and a confused
Less makes the bad decision of enlisting his rebellious friend
Dean played by Corey Feldman, to help. So at this point,

(45:47):
like I said, I'm all in on the Corries, you
are one hundred am in. I paid it, and as
a fourteen year old boy who thought the Corries were cool,
I loved this movie. So it's the classic Corey formula.
Feldman is the wild friend, Came is the lovable lead
trying to impress a girl kaos ensues over a car,

(46:10):
a crush, and a case of teenage recklessness? Was this
movie cheesy? Yes? Is it iconic? Abs of freaking loutely so?
The critics consensus.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
Despite a hard working cast and a premise that will
appeal to its teenage target demographic, this deeply silly comedy
only has a license to drive audiences to seek.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
Out better film that's kind of rough. That's not nice.
I wasn't. I wasn't seeking out better films. I love
this movie. Of course, it has probably been since about
nineteen eighty nine or nineteen ninety since I've seen that movie,
so it might be just awful. May not have held up,
but I loved it in nineteen eighty eight, nineteen eighty nine. Okay, well,
unfortunately we must talk about the next one. This is

(46:57):
your guy. Oh yeah, give it to my y. Of course,
your guys starting some stinkers. Let's be honest. Why don't
you give the give the folks what the name is?

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Nineteen eighty eight it was a little movie called Watchers.
Oh that alone is making me extremely uncomfortable. Okay, Corey
Haym played Travis Cornell. Okay, hold hold on to your hat. Yes,

(47:31):
box office of nine hundred and forty thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
I don't know that I've ever seen a movie that
got less than a million dollars in my life. It
has a zero percent Materer meter. So you know what
we maybe should have talked about this last week when
we had a guy on here from Bad Movies Rule,
because this would definitely be a bad movie.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Uh, thirty one percent on the popcorn meter. Let me
give you a little synopsis.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
This might be the worst movie you've ever talked about.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
A spirited golden retriever survives an explosion at a secret
government lab and makes its way to the suburbs, where
it is taken in by Travis.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
Played by Corey Haim, a lonely teenage boy.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Travis quickly discovers that the dog is highly intelligent and
is able to use the English language.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
It's a talking dog. I don't know how It's not good.
It's got a talking dog in it.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
A ruthless government agent named Lem played by Michael Ironside
is out to retrieve the animal, as well as another
mutated beast that was released in the explosion and has
since embarked on a murderous rampage.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
I don't wow. I don't know how. It got a
zero percent on the Mader meter.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
It had a box office of nine hundred forty thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
So I pulled maybe the funniest review I've ever read
off of this. Okay, and here's what I've got. Everyone
else is ripping it. And then some dude says, arguably,
though the film is worth it for the sight of
Haim getting stabbed in the leg and screaming like Demi Moore,
you can't script time capsule stuff like that. Oh my goodness. Uh,

(49:17):
that was classic. All right, moving on to my guy.
Your guy's got a stinker. My guy's got a good one. Here.
This is The Burbs, starring Corey Felban, who plays the
character Ricky Butler my cousin. So The Burbs had a

(49:52):
box office of forty nine point one dollars, fifty six
percent on the Majer meter and seventy one percent on
the pop Corn meter. So, after settling in for some
time off in his suburban home Ray Peterson played by
Tom Hanks, his vacation becomes a horror when the Clopex,

(50:12):
a suspiciously odd family, move in down the block enlisting
the aid of his paranoid buddy Art played by Rick Dukaman,
and his militia man neighbor Rumsfeld played by Bruce Dern.
Ray sends his son and wife played by Kerrie Fisher
away on a trip while he investigates the Clopex. When

(50:33):
a neighbor disappears, Ray and his cohorts risk their lives
to save their cul de sac from the clutches of evil.
So I didn't mink Corey Feldman in this synopsis. He's
why not. He's like fifth billing on this, which is
probably why it's a good movie. I love this movie. Yeah,
I do too. This is a very underrated cult like film.

(50:57):
But what I love about Corey Feldman in this movie, like,
he's the kid who's kind of the narrator of the story.
But it's he's not doing it as a narrator, right,
It's just kind of organically done by him telling his
friends about all his crazy neighbors, right, and he invites
them all over. He orders pizza for him, No, I
got the pizza, dude coming. And it's just a great

(51:19):
role for Corey Felman, and I just felt like a
you know, I'm a big fan of this movie. And
you love this movie too, right, yes? And loved it? Yeah? Yeah,
this is one of those movies that the whole family
would enjoy all right. Now on to nineteen eighty nine,
their last eighties movie together and the last eighties movie

(51:42):
on our list. This one's called Dream A little Dream.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Rock Rock has a box office of five and a
half million dollars. Oh goodness, has nine percent on the
mader meter, who sixty seven percent on the popcorn meter.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
Okay, let me give you a synopsis. An accident swaps
the minds.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Of a married older man played by Jason Robarts and
a teenager played by Corey Feldman chasing his dream girl,
Meredith Stallenger.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
That feels extremely strange. I'm comfortable weird, So Jason Robarbs
who I love? Uh? And Corey Feldman is the bigger
star of this movie over Corey ham. Normally it's Hame
as the main character and then Feldman kind of the
sign character. But this one is the other way around. Okay.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
So a body swap romance with confusing metaphysics and a
killer soundtrack.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
That's how I'm summoning this one up for you. Yeah, well,
we had you know, Michael Damon there on the rock
On this is cringey. It's cringe e. Yeah, I don't
know if you would like it. I loved it. In
nineteen eighty nine, I loved it. I watched this. I
probably watched this more than I watched License to Drive.

(53:20):
Were there some like inappropriate scenes? No, no, not at all,
not at all. Are you just telling me that. No,
I'm not telling you that at all? Okay, it was.
It was a little trippy. I feel like somebody may
have come up with that while on LSD. Yeah, and
the critics obviously were baffled, but the fans were obsessed,
and I was. In nineteen ninety I was obsessed with

(53:41):
this movie. I don't know why, but I was.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
So.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
It's one of the most cory of Corey movies. Style
over logic but full of heart. Yeah right, no logic here,
really weird. But when they were together, like I said,
it always seemed like to Corey Haim was the star
and Feldman was a sidekick, And in this one it's
the other way around. And I don't even really remember

(54:07):
Corey Hames's character very well in this one. I was
gonna ask you didn't even mention who he was in
the movie. He seemed to be more like the down
to earth, feet on the ground type person, whereas Feldman
was not, so you know, he's usually the other way around, right,
all right. And then finally they would start together in
nineteen ninety two Blown Away, and that's technically outside of

(54:29):
the eighties, but you know the intensity of the storyline
and the real life darkness that reflected their struggles, so
kind of gives a peek into where they were headed
post fame. So someone said, you didn't watch Corey movies
for realism, you watch them for attitude, music and the

(54:52):
energy of a generation on screen who said that somebody
with a lot more wisdom than I have.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
Okay, So they grew up on camera, but Hollywood never
taught them how to survive off of it. So as
the nineteen nineties dawned, tastes shifted and the teen heartthrob
model wore off. Haim struggled with addiction, financial instability, and
health issues. Feldman tried to reinvent himself music activism, and

(55:26):
later speaking out about abuse in the industry.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Let's talk a little bit about the reality TV show
that reunited them. The two Coreys that was on A
and E around two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight,
right before we met really, So in the.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Early two thousands, Corey Feldman stepped into a new spotlight,
not as a scripted movie star, but as a reality
TV figure navigating fame, friendship, and personal demons, all in
real time. So it all started in two thousand and
three with Va h one's The Surreal Life, where Feldman

(56:02):
was one of the original cast members, living under constant
cameras alongside other faded celebrities. He revealed a more vulnerable, spiritual,
and sometimes eccentric side.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Wasn't Flavor flav On that the Surreal Life Flavor Flavor
and Bridget mealson Not on this season? Oh no, oh, okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
He even got married on camera to the mother of
his son, Susie Sprague, who was a model, surprising fans
with an impromptu ceremony. So but the real headline came
a few years later in two thousand and seven with
The Two Coreys on A and E, a groundbreaking docuseries

(56:42):
that reunited Corey Feldman and Corey Haim together on screen again,
this time in a much different light.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
So think about that. That was almost twenty years after
Dream A Little Dream, and I know it was about
fifteen to sixteen years after Blown Away, but I'm not
sure anybody who saw Blows Away, So it was a
long time. Okay.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
So I'm just gonna pause for a second and just
be honest and tell you that the surreal life in
two thousand and three and then especially the two Corries
and O seven, that's when I really began to know
who Corey Feldman and Corey Haymore, because up until that point,
for me, they were just pictures in a teen magazine

(57:27):
that I was quickly flipping by to get to Donnie Wahlberg.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Right, So this is this is how I You were
a little bit younger than their demographic in nineteen eighty
seven and eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
Okay, So the two Corris followed their attempt to rebuild
both their friendship and careers with candid looks at addiction,
therapy and the emotional scars that they both carried from
their childhood. Viewers saw the highs and lows, the laughter,
the fights, and the heartbreaking moments as Ham struggled with
the relapse. The raw, unfiltered nature of the show earned

(58:02):
praise for its honesty, but also criticism for exposing Hame's
vulnerabilities so publicly, and no doubt one of the reasons
I'm sure he did the show was I think wanting
to reconnect with Corey Feldman, but also his desperation for
needing some funds at that point. So after two seasons,
the series ended in eight. Sadly, Corey Haim passed away

(58:24):
just two years later, making the show a point at
time capsule of their complex bond.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
So I saw in interviews where Corey Feldman had said
I was trying to help him, but there's only so
much one person can do, because by that time Feldman
was sober. Yeah, Feldman was sober.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
So in watching the two Corey's and not really knowing
a whole lot about their backstory, Corey Feldman seemed to
be extremely normal. He was married, she was a model,
you know, she was beautiful, They had a nice home.
He didn't quite yet look like he was morphing into

(59:03):
a vampire, so he sort of looked like a normal guy.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
Do you think now he looks like he's morphed in.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
Yeah. Absolutely, He's almost completed his transition, and Corey ham
quite obviously was still fighting his demons and seemed like
a lost soul, and I thought, not knowing anything other
than what they were showing me on this show, I
thought Corey Feldman came down really hard on Corey Ham,

(59:31):
and that it was Ham was already broken. He didn't
need Veldman to come down so hard on him at
that point, and so that really made me sad. Actually,
at the end of the second season, they cut ties,
did they really?

Speaker 1 (59:43):
Yes? So, Corey Ham died at the age of thirty
eight from pneumonia brought on by complications of years of
drug abuse. Corey Feldman did not attend the funeral. He
said it had become a media circus and he wanted

(01:00:05):
to grieve privately. Are you buying that? Yes? Okay, So
you believe that Corey Felman still cared very much for
Corey Ham when he passed away.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Yes, their connection was something that it's hard to even
put into words. It's more than a friendship. It even
felt like more than a brotherhood. It almost felt like
they were just an extension.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
Of each other. Yeah, they were almost like twins, right, Yes,
they were. They were.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
Like I'm not insinuating that their relationship was anything other
than a friendship, but they had a very unusual bond.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
Well, yeah, they were. They were very strongly connected. Well, hey,
they grew up in Hollywood together, so they could share something.
It's kind of like the people who were on Survivor
who come back and say, only other people that are
on Survivor have known what I've gone through, right, And
we're connected at a level that me not me, but
the person that's talking that even that person and their

(01:01:03):
best friend can't connect on right, right, And so that's
kind of like was like it said, like we said earlier,
they were managed together, right, right, They were in movies together.
They got addicted to drugs, you know, at young age,
so they they had been through the trenches together. It's
almost like U two friends, Yeah, trauma bond, Yeah, two
friends coming home from Vietnam. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
So behind the laughter, the teen movies in the eighties,
Heart Throb Headlines, there was something much darker going on
that neither one of them could fully escape. Both Corris
were victims of sexual abuse as young actors in Hollywood,
and that obviously has got to have had something to
do with their bond. Corey Feldman has been open about

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his own abuse in his memoir titled Choreography, and then
later in a documentary he Did My Truth, The Rape
of Two Corries. He described being molested by several older
men in the entertainment industry, people who helped power over
him and influence over him. Feldman says he was groomed, manipulated,

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and introduced to drugs as a way of control by
these men. So yeah, According to Feldman, Corey Haim's trauma
began even earlier than his and was even more devastating.
Ham allegedly told Feldman that he was raped on the
set of Lucas at just thirteen years old, by a
much older actor. So Feldman described the abuse as a

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wound that Hame never fully recovered from. He said it
shaped Hame's identity, his relationships, and contributed to his deep
struggle with addiction. While Feldman tried to bury his pain
through work and activism, Hame battled more publicly with multiple
stints and rehab, periods of homelessness, and efforts at a

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comeback that were often sabotaged by the weight of unhealed trauma.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
Really said, people loved the Coreys, but they didn't always
protect them. Yeah. No, I don't think anyone protected them.
But it's really interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
Preparing for this episode, I listened to specifically one podcast
that Corey Feldman did a couple of years ago with Blossom.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
Really yes, I always butcher her name. Yeah, don't even
try it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
Okay, she does a really cool podcast for the intellectuals
out there. He was on her podcast a couple of
years ago. He's one of the most normal weird guys
I've ever.

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
Seen, one of the most normal weird guys. Yes, yeah,
I would. You know, I don't know. You couldn't go
get a beer with Corey Feldman because he probably has
addiction issues. But I'd love to just hang out with
him and so, you know, talk to him and maybe
get my pocket picked or something.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
He's my new vampires pickpockets. He's sober, he's clean. He
does not eat meat. He said he's not had any
meat since he was a teenager. He's very spiritual.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
I eat enough meat for him. He very much lives
the twelve Step program.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
Oh wow, okay, and so I'm betting he either sleeps
in a coffin or hanging upside.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
Down in the dark like Keefer.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
Yeah, all right, you know, I hope wherever Corey Ham
is now that he's been able to find peace that
he needs, But I feel like he won't truly it
won't truly be heaven for him until Corey Feldman gets there.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
In the end, Corey Feldman and Corey Ham were more
than teen idols. They were survivors, cautionary tales, legends of
a particular kind of fame, fame that comes too young,
too fast, and too bright to last. But to a
generation of fans like me and you, they'll always be
in that vampire hunting comic shop, or behind the wheel

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of a stolen Cadillac, or dreaming a little dream together
the Corri's.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
Okay, So that wraps up our show for today. I
hope that you've enjoyed the Tale of two Coreys.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
Yeah, reach out to us, tell us what you liked.
What's your favorite Corey's movie together or separate? You know,
I'm sticking by stand by me. I think is my
favorite separate, and then probably The Lost Boys is my
favorite Together.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
Yep, I don't disagree, but I do think there are
a couple in here, whether good or bad, that we're
going to need to watch.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
Oh. Absolutely, we got to go back and watch some
So what do you remember about the Corri's. What were
some of your favorite movies? Did you like Gary Busey
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