Does this answer your fucking question, The Thrills?

Sad news today about Corey Haim's reportedly fatal overdose. Given the dude's rocky history with drugs, it's not exactly a huge surprise to find him cark it at the hands of narcotics. Nonetheless, it's a depressing end for a guy whose name alone used to inspire video rentals of his (admittedly not-very-good) star vehicles. Top five Corey Haim movies, then:


1) The Lost Boys (1987)
A given, surely, on the basis that this is the one going on every eulogy. Exhibiting a sense of cultural camera-winking later exploited to the max by Scream, The Lost Boys made Haim an identifiable hero to 11 year-old boys everywhere, and made vampire slaying a fucking quip-tastic art form - "death by stereo" indeed.

2) Licence To Drive (1988)
The second pairing of Messrs Haim and Feldman, with the former pilfering his dad's motor in order to get his wicked way with Hollywood's very own Dorian Gray, Heather Graham. Seriously. That chick does NOT AGE. Badly dated, but still pretty damn funny throughout.

3) Silver Bullet (1985)
In an Oscar-baiting ploy mimicked years later by the likes of Tom Cruise, Sam Worthington and those dudes from Murderball, Haim here goes wheelchair-bound in Stephen King's odd reworking of Rear Window. Portly spouse killers are replaced by werewolves, and Gary Busey's in it too. Brilliant.

4) Prayer of the Rollerboys (1991)
Corey goes action hero (with a script from the writer of Point Break, no less), as a rollerblading pizza delivery boy living in a hellish (well, there's a few buildings on fire) future overpopulated by surfer-looking Nazi thugs. Patricia Arquette's in there too, and it has Nine Inch Nails on the soundtrack.

5) Dream A Little Dream (1989)
The most over-looked of all those 80's body-swapped comedies (pipe down, Like Father Like Son), this has Haim dealing with his best bud Feldman swapping consciousnesses with none other than Jason Robards. Genius (well, not really, but it's still better than Vice Versa).

Just missed this list - Fast Getaway. And Watchers. And Blown Away (not the IRA one). RIP, sir.