Corey Feldman was one of the most recognizable American actors of the younger generation. He appeared in cult comedies and adventure films. At some point, his career took an unexpected turn. Dark stories emerged from his childhood. And now his name is mostly associated with… a sense of embarrassment.
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“Stand by someone's side” (“Stand by his side”), “Guns”, “in the suburbs” (“burbs”), “The Lost Boys” (“The Lost Boys”) – If you've seen any of these movies, you probably know the child actor Corey Feldman.
In the 1980s, he was a real star. If I were to describe his roles (the most common type), I would say that he played “Honest scoundrels with good hearts.”
It's possible that Hollywood profiled him that way, or maybe he chose these characters himself to somewhat match his real personality. However, he mostly played secondary roles. Certainly memorable.
In the mid-1990s, she appeared as one of the main characters along with her lifelong friend Corey Haim in comedy “Crazy Vacation”. At the moment, the movie has a rating 2.8/10 on imdb.
Shortly after, he also starred in the full-length version of the hit HBO series.Tales from the Crypt. I think this production might be a challenge for even the most devoted fans of the series.
Later, there were appearances in lesser-known plays and clippings of former fame – you knew that “The Lost Boys” Do they have two more parts? Of course, Feldman stars in both of them.
His example can recall the countless careers of other Hollywood stars whose immense fame and glamor faded over time and became postcards of the past.
Not so, however, is Corey Feldman, whose career has not only been taking on a new luster for several years now — transforming into what can only be called… The cringe essence.
Are we witnessing a great return of the star as it was years ago? Nicolas Cage? Or maybe this 1980s child star has simply turned into another aging star who can't accept that his time has passed and that soon the Internet will also focus on another “freak”?
There are also speculations that this new, unpredictable version of Feldman… is another role for him. Perhaps the most important thing in life.
However, it's worth noting that while Feldman's behavior is currently going viral mainly due to his devastating live performance and strange behavior, the former child star has experienced… Dark stuff indeed.
Revenge of a friend and Post-traumatic stress disorder
– As far as I'm concerned, there was harassment by many pairs of hands. But Corey Haim left He was physically raped. I believe that the perpetrator was part of a larger environment and thereby managed to avoid punishment. All these men were friends. “Anyone who knew me as a child knows that Haim and I went through sexual assault,” Feldman said in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter. Plejada.pl website in 2022.
Over the past decade, Feldman has argued that “Hollywood's biggest problem is pedophilia“.
When we were working on The Lost Boys in 1987, Corey told me that during the filming of Lucas two years earlier, one of the adults in the crew had convinced him that there was sexual intercourse between young boys and older men. The norm in the industry is that “everyone is doing it.” On her lunch break, this guy took her to the back of the trailer and had anal sex with her. Innocent and ambitious fourteen-year-old Haim would not object. The relationship between them lasted two years. Today Cory died, and the other man is one of the most influential people in Hollywood and earns a lot of money.”
His longtime friend Corey Haim died in 2010 of complications from pneumonia. He was 38 years old. He never revealed the identity of the person who allegedly benefited from him.
This was done years later by Feldman, who explained that he had apparently made a promise to a friend. Rolling Stone magazine in 2020 Reported on the premiere of the movie A documentary that Feldman worked on for three years, “(My) Truth: 2 Cory's Rape.”
In it, the actress had to not only present the problem of child abuse in Hollywood, but also reveal the name of the person who abused her best friend.
Feldman revealed on the record that the person who allegedly sexually assaulted Corey Haim (who was 14 at the time of the incident) was… Charlie Sheen.
Famous actor – known, for example, from movies “New shots”If no “Pluto” – He denied these accusations. “These sick, twisted and outlandish accusations are never based in reality. Period.” – This was a fragment of Sheen's statement provided to “Entertainment Weekly” (It should be added that Sheen's name appeared in the context of this case. Already in 2017).
However, “revealing the truth” – as Feldman put it – did not bring the desired relief. His film was clearly not enough influence In the world of Hollywood, as the actor himself assumed.
In 2023, Fledman admitted that all the effort and money he had put into the project had been ignored and he suffered Gas lighting. He also added that at that moment he decided to return to therapy, which he had not been in for almost 15-20 years.
“It's really a dark time There was more PTSD and trauma in my life than the actual abuse I experienced as a child“- said the actor, quoted by the American publication “Newsweek”.
“I'm not going to focus on the negative anymore. I need happiness, I need spirituality, I need peace. And the only one who can give me that is god“- he commented.
Maybe that's why he named the album with his music 2016 “Angelic 2 The Core” and hired skinny blondes in angel costumes to appear on stage.
We have to remember that while Corey was fighting the demons of his past…he was also making music. And here we come to the weirdest version of Corey Feldman.
everything bad
– 22 songs in this album are painful, almost torture in Chinese water. It's hard to describe how bad this album is – he said about the album Anthony FantanoOne of the most important music critics on YouTube calling the album “the worst album of 2016”.
Also deserving of a separate paragraph are Feldman's live performances (often for small audiences), which at best seem like…a clear loss for an artist who often tries to imitate the movements with his dance and costumes. Michael Jackson And the accompanying avalanche of errors. We're talking things like starting the show before the guitarist has time to turn on his gear, frantically yelling into the microphone for the roadies to turn the lights down, or Corey looking for his tooth on stage. The microphone accidentally hit his face. And all this against the background of the American flag stuck between the amplifiers and instruments of the musicians.
“It keeps going viral” – We're hearing comments on YouTube from people who are on stage starting compilations of Feldman's post-blunders. However, on the Internet you can find the opinion that this is all… just part of a meticulously planned show.
Genius or lost man?
The idea that Corey Feldman only pretends to be ignorant on stage and that's just his acting. Justin HawkinsThe vocalist of the British band The Darkness, who can be associated with an old hit “I believe in a thing called love“.
In his YouTube video, Hawkins literally calls Feldman…a fraud.
– We laugh at him, we think how can anyone not know that he is funny. Recently I began to think: “How can there be so many things so often in one person” and I came to the conclusion that he was doing it on purpose. Well, if not, says Justin Hawkins, adding that he'd love to see Feldman live (even if it means taking a plane to the show).
– Imagine dedicating your life to such a project and something like this happens to you every day? – Hawkins teases. However, under his own video, you can see a comment from one of the viewers that seems to…disprove this theory.
“I was Corey Feldman's guide for 4 days last year and I can confirm that he does not know enough to do something like this on purpose. There is no stage manager or road manager to handle many technical issuesAnd his band either had hired guns or other actors/friends, so they weren't going to give him any attention, and the repeated hitting on the mic, I think it's because he tends to have a rigid routine, so if something is a little different, he has accidents like that. You won't believe how many WTF stories have come out in these four days– we read under Hawkins' video.
At this point, it's hard to tell if Corey Feldman is still an actor or just a showman whose demeanor is amusing and strangely uncomfortable. He certainly wants to be treated as an artist, but it's clear how successful he is at this.
However, all indications are that Feldman has come to terms with his perception on the Internet. Despite this, he still considers himself… a hero.
On his profile on X.com (formerly Twitter), you can find information that in July 2024 he joined the line-up of an upcoming music event. Luzerville. He will perform on the same stage where Limp Bizkit – called by many as one of the “most hated bands in the world”.
“As I mentioned earlier, #thegonies They were a group of misfits out to save the day. It's like losing the character I got, so why not join #LOSERVILLE? I'm happy to be called a loser– he writes in the post and announces the dates of his performances in the USA.