10 Great Performances Lost In Unwatchable Movies

9. Michael Parks (Tusk)

Pennywise Tim Curry
A24 Films

The first movie in Kevin Smith's stoner 'I don't care anymore' trilogy of Canadian horror comedies is one of the dumber Human Centipede rip-offs out there, taking in walrus Justin Long (complete with ridiculous prosthetics), adult Haley Joel Osment, and Johnny Depp wearing even more ridiculous prosthetics.

Amidst all of this, Michael Parks delivers a dignified, genuinely chilling performance as the lonely old coot Howard Howe, drugging podcaster Wallace's tea (Wallace... Walrus, geddit) and re-purposing the bones in his legs into tusks. The film is worth it for Parks's monologues alone, most specifically his struggling to contain a fit of the giggles when explaining to Wallace just what happened to his first missing limb...

Smith's follow-up, Yoga Hosers, is of course, even worse than Tusk, but without Michael Parks in it to alleviate the atrocity, it is entirely without redeeming features.

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A film critic and professional writer of over ten years, Joel Harley has a deep and abiding love of all things horror, Batman and Nicolas Cage. He can be found writing online and in print, all over the Internet and in especially good bookstores.