10 Actors Who Tried Way Too Hard To Be Edgy

10. Macaulay Culkin - Party Monster

Squeaky clean Macaulay Culkin, made famous during childhood for his roles as abandonment victim Kevin McCallister and killer bee Thomas J. Sennett, ended his 9-year acting hiatus in 2003's Party Monster, playing infamous real-life New York party promoter Michael Alig. The film centres around Alig's rise as a promoter and ringleader of the notorious "Club Kids" and his subsequent downfall, descending into drug addiction and the murder of drug dealer Angel Melendez at his hands.

It's understandable that after stepping back from his busy and stressful career as a clean-cut child star, Culkin would have wanted to break out of the mould that he was so well-known for. However, his turn as Alig went so far in the opposite direction that it felt off-putting and didn't help his career at all. The film itself is lurid, following a vacuous and decadent club scene that inspires little but apathy in its audience, and Culkin's utterly unconvincing performance is front and centre.

Culkin swears profusely, hoovers up comical amounts of cocaine and meth, trashes apartments and eventually commits a grisly murder - and is unrepentant about all of it. It's a clumsily made misfire all round, and isn't helped by the presence of Kevin McCallister going through an awkward phase.