cult film freak: corey haim

Written by James M. Tate / 1/25/2023 / No comments / corey haim , eighties , everette mcgill , gary busey , horror , lawrence tierney , megan follows , stephen king , terry o'quinn , werewolf

BITING INTO STEPHEN KING'S WEREWOLF HORROR 'SILVER BULLET'

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</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrUEW86RXWfmGdYkcLjHI7EocBPODf49dj5zY1J2yb8eashYSnSfjixVETmJZOakazPHGiL_OIuEWqQVVhtrEFk1e42me0nuez9snlHv_cXVZAgHEVwTBkE2DxuiKjEig2V96gg-xUSaUwIr15qTfcbJiH1PX8ok4h3ciuPgi1TtCJ1A_qVDm9SWaag/s1640/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-30%20at%203.49.54%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="1640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrUEW86RXWfmGdYkcLjHI7EocBPODf49dj5zY1J2yb8eashYSnSfjixVETmJZOakazPHGiL_OIuEWqQVVhtrEFk1e42me0nuez9snlHv_cXVZAgHEVwTBkE2DxuiKjEig2V96gg-xUSaUwIr15qTfcbJiH1PX8ok4h3ciuPgi1TtCJ1A_qVDm9SWaag/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-30%20at%203.49.54%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SILVER BULLET Year: 1985 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Stephen King famously hates Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING because it's not Kubrick's... despite the fact it <i>is very much</i> his movie adapted from King's novel; the author especially loathed the casting of Jack Nicholson, being a too-obvious choice for a man going crazy since <i>being </i>crazy's his forte; but perhaps it was also the dialogue...<br>
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Without characters spouting such lines as "Are you gonna make lemonade in your pants?" THE SHINING stands out from (most of the) other King adaptations during the 1980's; yet King's cinematic tastes were more along the lines of MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE and SILVER BULLET, where other awful and downright embarrassing comments are uttered by equally banal characters...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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BITING INTO STEPHEN KING'S WEREWOLF HORROR 'SILVER BULLET'

Title: SILVER BULLET Year: 1985 Rating: **** Stephen King famously hates Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING because it's not Kubrick...

Written by James M. Tate / 4/10/2016 / No comments / christopher collet , corey haim , eighties , peter weller , robert downey jr. , suspense , teri garr

CHRIS COLLET FIRSTBORN, PETER WELLER MOVING IN

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter Weller doesn't trust no one and holds all the cards in FIRSTBORN</td></tr>
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One of the best performances by an actor, soon be known as a metallic-robotic cop for the rest of his career after traveling the 8TH DIMENSION, Peter Weller downright nails it as Sam, who is MOVING IN, the original title or some kind of alternate for FIRSTBORN, with a family that has a mother, a youngest son and of course, the oldest, which the real title explains right up front: In the part of Jake, Christopher Collet seems, in a way, sort of related to his "poor me" mom's new nefarious yet at first just sneaky, "bullshit-artist" boyfriend in that both have facial expressions that don't take much dialogue to get across what becomes a similar (and perhaps overused) standoff scenario screaming "I don't like you and you don't like me!" This line, never spoken, could go either way. Both Collet and Weller are facially-intense, bubbling juicy pride and determination from the pours of their skin, with expressions that mount like ticking time bombs, again and again. And never in a film has there been so many people just kind of, standing around. Wherein, surprisingly enough, that's where much of the "action" occurs.<br>

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CHRIS COLLET FIRSTBORN, PETER WELLER MOVING IN

Peter Weller doesn't trust no one and holds all the cards in FIRSTBORN One of the best performances by an actor, soon be known as a ...

Written by James M. Tate / 10/03/2013 / No comments / action , corey feldman , corey haim , kathleen robertson , neo noir , nicole eggert , nineties , suspense

NICOLE EGGERT IS 'BLOWN AWAY' WITH COREY HAIM

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1993 cast: Nicole Eggert, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Kathleen Robertson rating: **1/2</td></tr>
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Let’s coin a new cinematic term… Corey Noir… Or perhaps, Film Corey… That’s right, the Coreys – Haim and Feldman – starred in a 1993 Neo Noir thriller, but the boys aren't what BLOWN AWAY is remembered for…<br />
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Nicole Eggert stars as a teenage femme fatalle, Megan, with a rich and overprotective father who might’ve had something to do with her mother’s death – opening the movie with a car explosion aptly befitting the title...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Go back to Steve Sanders, he was more your type anyway."</td></tr>
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Corey Haim is Rich… No he’s not worth a lot of money like Megan… His name’s Rich and he has a half-brother, Wes... the other Corey, resembling a scruffy grunge musician on sabbatical... who hangs around a nightclub where Rich works, owned by Megan’s hardboiled father…<br />
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Jean LeClerc is about as tough as the movie gets, aesthetically. Chiseled and mean with world-weary prowess, the sinister Sy is a palpable threat to our youthful hero…<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I'm smokin' hot, like, totally."</td></tr>
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Every time after Rich beds down Megan during full frontal over-the-top sex scenes that provided “controversy” upon the film’s release… straight-to-video, cable or otherwise… Sy shows up and can’t leave his daughter alone. This makes Megan want to erase daddy, for good...<br />
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The Noir template includes the seductive siren tempting her lovestruck (and ultimately falsely accused) pawn to pull off dirty deeds… The heartbroken damsel (Kathleen Robertson) who yearns for what she cannot have… A grumbling/befuddled cop chasing clues... And a wild card character ultimately wielding the smoking gun…<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Excuse me, sir, do you have a light... And my homework?"</td></tr>
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All that’s missing is a fully realized script, way more fun in the first half than second, and most importantly, grownup actors to fit the situation at hand... Yet surprisingly enough, these kids, especially the sultry and seductive Eggert, do alright… <br />
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Sure you’ll be howling at the contrived, cornball dialogue, or when Corey Haim, built like a No. 2 Pencil, beats up a muscular dude inside a neon-lit barroom, but in the movies, anything, and everything, is possible.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Alright, so it's no LOST BOYS but it definitely puts DREAM A LITTLE DREAM to shame."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"This is a controversial breakthrough, so I don't want Charles, or David Hasselhoff, in charge of me..."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"My looks and life are perfect, right down to the white picket fence."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Why, in most of these Corey flicks, does Haim get the better role?"</td></tr>
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NICOLE EGGERT IS 'BLOWN AWAY' WITH COREY HAIM

year: 1993 cast: Nicole Eggert, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Kathleen Robertson rating: **1/2 Let’s coin a new cinematic term… Corey Noir…...

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