Corey Haim, a teen heartthrob to the Sassy and TigerBeat generation, died today in Los Angeles, according to the Associated Press. He was 38. Autopsy results will confirm the cause of death at a later time.

The teen star, whose fame increased following roles with his best friend Corey Feldman in movies like "License to Drive" and "The Lost Boys," grew into a man who publicly battled drug addiction. In 2007, Haim reunited with Feldman for an A&E reality series, "The Two Coreys."

Corey Haim's allure lay not merely in his boy-next-door good looks, but in the way he segued from know-it-all ("You're a creature of the night, Michael") to bratty child ("You wait 'til Mom finds out!"). It was Haim's gangly boyishness, and not the fact that he was too grown up for his own good (that was Corey Feldman's shtick), that proved catnip to a slew of girls who tried to find watered-down versions of him among their middle-school classmates.

Haim continued to work, appearing in low-budget movies nearly every year, and returned for a small scene in 2008's "Lost Boys" sequel. But a cocaine addiction prevented a return to his early heights of fame. In 2007, he told the New York Times that his mother had saved his life more than once. Watch clips of Haim's films below.

Haim was arguably at his most vulnerable and least affected as a gawky adolescent in 1986's "Lucas," which also starred Charlie Sheen and Winona Ryder, and featured the big screen debut of one Jeremy Piven.

And then came 1987's "The Lost Boys," which changed everything. Years before the "Twilight" series, girls longed for not the vampire, but the vampire-killers.

The blockbuster success of "The Lost Boys" was followed by 1988's "License to Drive."

Haim returned in 1988 with "Watchers," a late Cold-War thriller about a lost research lab dog and the shady government officials who want him back.

The shine was starting to fade around 1989's "Dream a Little Dream," which starred Corey Feldman over Haim. Haim had grown into a more bad boy look, and his original female fans were now looking to other distractions.

Speakeasy's Elva Ramirez joined the WSJ News Hub panel to discuss Corey Haim's death and his film legacy: