10 Films Actors Wanted You To Hate

Love him or hate him, Nicolas Cage is one of the boldest actors of his generation, and his filmography is absolutely littered with daringly mould-breaking performances.

But there's a single Cage performance which challenges audiences above all others, and that's his turn in the 1989 black comedy Vampire's Kiss. Cage plays Peter Loew, a literary agent who begins to lose his mind as he comes to believe that he's turning into a vampire.

The film, which was a box office bomb and received wildly polarised reviews upon release, sees Cage at his full-tilt, coke-huffing best.

Yet as entertaining as the results are, it's also fair to say that Lowe represents the most unlikeable and impenetrable character in Cage's entire back catalogue.

If Face/Off's Castor Troy was a charming psychopath, there's very little endearing about his a**hole yuppie in this movie, accentuated by director Robert Bierman's almost impossibly bleak vision of urban decay and mental illness.

There is nothing in the way of redemption or catharsis here, and on the balance of Cage's performance - defined as it so often is by loud screaming and insane physical acting - he wanted to leave viewers as repulsed and pissed off as humanly possible.