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Sloppy Seconds: The Best (and Worst) Horror Remakes

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Kyle Rupprecht

The Wicker Man (2006)

Remakes don’t get much worse than this god-awful re-imagining of the 1973 Christopher Lee cult classic. Yet, due in part to Nicolas Cage’s ability to keep a straight face while saying the most absurd lines, the movie provides a kind of perverse fascination. Cage stars as a policeman who discovers a secretive, neo-pagan community while investigating the disappearance of a young girl on a mysterious island.

Nearly every change made from the original film is wrongheaded, and Cage is woefully miscast as the protagonist. With his stiff, inexplicable line delivery (sometimes shouting lines for no discernible reason), Cage comes across as the most unlikely police officer imaginable. Add to that the unintentionally hilarious dialogue and preposterous situations, and The Wicker Man is easily a bad movie classic.

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Kyle Rupprecht

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  • I love this list, but you left off the remake of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", from the worst horror remakes list. It didn't have the hysteria factor of the original, also, it just didn't terrify me like the original film.

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