12 Great Directors Who Helmed Terrible Movie Remakes

2. Harold Ramis - Bedazzled (2000)

It's weird to think that there was ever a point when a major studio were able to cast Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley in a film, like that was the most normal thing in the world: they're the last pair you'd expect to find in anything of worth nowadays, but back in 2000 they were considered hot property, apparently. Those were the days.

Betting on their, uh, sizzling chemistry, Fraser and Hurley found themselves paired with Harold Ramis, the comic director behind Caddyshack, National Lampoon's Vacation and Groundhog Dog, for 2000's Bedazzled, a remake of the far superior 1960s film of the same name. In both versions, the plot focuses on a naive young man who becomes romantically entangled with the devil, played in Ramis' film by Hurley.

In the late '90s, Ramis was struggling to keep his career afloat, having directed a series of flops in Stuart Saves His Family and Multiplicity. Did he think this broad and largely stifled "comedy" was the way forward? Still, despite the disastrous script, Bedazzled did make $90 million on a budget half that size, rendering it as a relative success and the last film Ramis ever made that didn't flop at the box office.

Bedazzled has since been relegated to one of those flicks you stumble upon now and again and laugh at, as if to say: "Oh, my, wasn't the past a funny place?"