Corey Feldman thought he was going to hitch horror royalty when Wes Craven known as him up for a job in 2005's Cursed.

Sadly, the previous baby star later realized he was being "punked." Talking to fellow Craven dissee Tori Spelling, who was as soon as the butt of a joke in Scream, Feldman revealed that the late legendary horror director approached his administration and claimed to have a "sensible" position for him.

"He's like, 'I'm an enormous fan of your work. I wish to offer you a job that you would be able to actually sink your tooth into. You've been far, you realize, type of ignored and underused on this enterprise, and I really need folks to acknowledge you for the expertise that you’re,'" Feldman mentioned on the misSPELLING podcast. "And he like gave me this complete spiel and I used to be like, 'Okay, yeah, let's do it.'"

However when the Stand By Me star bought the script for Cursed, he discovered that he had been duped. He wasn't a lot supplied a job as he was given an insulting cameo as himself.

"It's one line, enjoying myself, on this scene with Shannon Elizabeth the place she's like, 'Oh my god, isn't that Corey Feldman? I forgot him,' or one thing like that, some like actually nasty line," Feldman mentioned. "And I'm identical to, are you critical? That is what you need me to do?"

Whereas the Goonies actor was hesitant to take the "humiliating" job, he mentioned Craven and firm stored providing him extra money. After rejecting the position 4 instances, Feldman mentioned they supplied "a lot cash that I couldn't refuse."

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Cursed confronted quite a few manufacturing points, with Craven telling Leisure Weekly in 2007 that it "was actually not very nice" to work on. One man's curse is one other man's blessing in Feldman's case, as his cameo was minimize from the ultimate edit.

"I used to be very grateful personally getting minimize as a result of it was like, sure, I bought the pay day, didn't get the humiliation," he mentioned.

Take a look at the complete episode of misSPELLING with Corey Feldman beneath.

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