The film currently has a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score after 21 reviews, with the consensus agreeing that the super-meta Cage vehicle is almost exactly what the actor's career has been leading to. Starring alongside The Mandalorian’s Pedro Pascal, the film sees Cage being offered $1 million to attend a super-fan’s birthday, which leads him to be embroiled in a government operation.

Though, many of Cage fans look back at the film fondly and it has a bit of a cult following these days.Ĭage is now starring in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, a film that has Cage playing a version of himself and, unlike The Wicker Man, really relies on him being…well, Nicolas Cage. The film landed with a 15% approval rate on Rotten Tomatoes, and barely scraped back its $40 million budget at the box office. Horror-comedy movies such as Fright Night, Gremlins, and An American Werewolf in London all managed to strike a balance between moments of comedy and ones of all-out horror, but The Wicker Man certainly isn’t a movie that landed in that ballpark critically. There are certainly a lot of horror movies that have comedic elements, but they are clear from the outset and therefore expected. That was terrifying, but they didn't have the vision that Neil and I had for it.' But Ari Aster did it brilliantly in Midsommar. That would've been so horrifying, but they didn't go for that because all the comedy would've emerged from this horror.

It probably would've been more clear how funny it was if Avi Lerner let me have the handlebar mustache that I wanted to wear and be burned in the bear suit. I'm going on record right now: That is not a fact. The remake followed the same story and pulled from Pinner’s original novel as much as the previous movie, but it wasn't quite as well-received with filmgoers of the era, though it avoided winning a handful of Raspberry Awards due to being nominated in the same year as the Wayans’ movie Little Man.Ĭage recently explained to IndieWire, 'I know people had fun with that even if they thought the comedy was not intentional. The original movie starred Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee and is often cited as one of the best horror movies of all time thanks to its disturbing final act. The Wicker Man is based on the 1967 novel Ritual by David Pinner, and tells the story of a mainland police officer who visits a small island in search for a missing girl to discover a sinister group of neo-pagans who live there.

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