Every Nicolas Cage Horror Movie (So Far) Ranked By IMDb
Every Nicolas Cage Horror Movie (So Far), Ranked By IMDb
Nicolas Cage has starred in a huge number of movies and his horror movies are some of the most famous, though not all of them for the right reasons.
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Nicolas Cage’s bombastic acting style lends itself very well to horror. As it goes with the rest of the prolific, cult actor’s career, Cage’s track record with horror movies remains mixed. In recent years, Cage has fortunately found a niche for himself in experimental, avant-garde features rife with moody aesthetics and Lovecraftian plots. Cage is set to get scary again soon with the forthcoming horror-comedy Willy’s Wonderland, which features a supporting cast of puppets.
Entire segments of YouTube are dedicated to compiling every one of Cage’s on-screen freak-outs. Why not bypass the gag reels and go straight to the source?
9 The Wicker Man (2006) – 3.7
1973’s The Wicker Man is a cult folk horror film lauded for its unsettling look into Pagan rituals and cults. 2006’s remake takes everything good about its predecessor, throws it out the window, and instead features a scene (in an alternate take) where Nicolas Cage freaks out while being tortured by bees.
In the remake, Cage plays a policeman in search of a missing girl who lives on a remote island in Washington state occupied by neo-Pagans. It’s all a trap, of course, and Cage’s character soon realizes he’s set to be sacrificed in order to secure better honey production from the island’s bees in the future.
8 Pay the Ghost (2015) – 5.2
Pay the Ghost is, unfortunately, a complete rip-off of the far-superior Insidious. In this silly supernatural thriller, Cage searches for his abducted son and finds him in an unlikely place: an alternate world occupied by a widow ghost who steals children every Halloween.
Anyone who has seen Insidious can figure out how Pay the Ghost evolves from there. Critics across the board consider Pay the Ghost sluggish, unimaginative, and lacking even a thread of kitsch that would make far better use of Cage’s presence in the movie.
7 Mom And Dad (2017) – 5.5
Manic and melodramatic, Mom and Dad is the ultimate horror movie testament to how parenthood turns even the most even-keel person into a murderous wacko. Cage co-stars alongside Selma Blair as suburbanites who are overcome with a particular type of hysteria: they feel the overwhelming impulse to kill their offspring.
This affliction isn’t unique to Cage and Blair’s characters. It’s affecting every parent around town, ensuring all the kids in town are guaranteed to have a bad day.
6 Vampire’s Kiss (1989) – 6.0
In Vampire’s Kiss, Cage’s character Peter Loew gives Patrick Bateman from American Psycho a run for his money. Loew, a yuppie literary agent with delusions of grandeur loses it after a few visits from a seductive female vampire who drinks his blood.
Jennifer Beals plays the vampire, Rachel, who may or may not be a figment of Peter’s imagination. Either way, Peter believes he’s been stricken with vampirism and goes on the kind of demented, operatic rampage around New York City that could only be pulled off on the big screen by someone like Cage.
5 Color Out Of Space (2019) – 6.2
Cage plays Nathan Gardner in Richard Stanley’s phantasmagorical nightmare Color Out of Space. Based on an H.P. Lovecraft story, the film follows Nathan’s family as they contend with a pernicious alien force that crash lands on their property as a meteorite.
The odiferous space rock emits a strange mist and incandescent colors that mutates the land and sends the Gardners into a metastasizing stupor. Cage adds just enough camp and bombast to his performance to give Color Out of Space a gonzo edge.
4 Mandy (2018) – 6.5
Cage’s character Red is out for blood in Panos Cosmato’s psychedelic film set in 1983, Mandy. After Red’s titular girlfriend, played by Andrea Riseborough, is kidnapped by a hippie cult leader named Jeremiah Sand – who wants her for his own.
Fueled by drugs, forged steel, and extra-long chainsaws, Red systematically slays every cult member in increasingly brutal ways. Cage’s propensity to go all-in works well in Mandy, which uses his character’s seething rage to accelerate its underlining revenge tale.
3 8MM (1999) – 6.5
8MM, which sees James Gandolfini and Joaquin Phoenix sharing the screen with Cage, is the kind of horror-thriller that uses a mainstream taboo as a segway into terror and evil. In this film’s case, it’s the world of underground pornography and BDSM.
Cage plays a straight-laced private investigator hired by a wealthy widow to figure out if the snuff film she found in her late husband’s office is real. Cage’s character, Tom Welles, gets in over his head after coming to the conclusion that the film is real, and the girl featured in it has been missing for years.
2 Bringing Out The Dead (1999) – 6.8
One of Martin Scorsese’s overlooked collaborations with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, Bringing Out the Dead is equal parts psychological and supernatural horror. Cage plays a graveyard shift EMT who is haunted by the ghosts of the lives he wasn’t able to save.
Cage’s evocative performance as Frank Pierce sets the tone for this dark cinematic experience that didn’t sit well with mainstream audiences. Bringing Out the Dead was a box office bomb, a rare status for any Scorsese film.
1 Grindhouse (2007) – 7.5
Cage actually performs in one of the fictitious trailers that play during Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse. The segment, for a fake movie entitled Werewolf Women of the SS, was directed by none other than Rob Zombie.
In a classic example of a non-Asian actor playing an Asian caricature, Cage stars Dr. Fu Manchu in the trailer, a Chinese villain who has always been represented on screen by white actors. Werewolf Women of the SS is just the tip of the iceberg for Grindhouse, which is designed to pay homage to tasteless, often problematic, exploitation films from the 1970s.
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