10 Horror Movie Actors Who HATED Their Own Performances

7. Michael Caine - Jaws: The Revenge

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Even the biggest Jaws fan finds it tough to defend the atrocity that was Jaws: The Revenge.

Swimming to the silver screen in 1987, Joseph Sargent's movie was riddled with ludicrous plot points, overflowing with illogicality, and struggled to muster up as much bite as even the oft-mocked Jaws III did.

Here, a great white shark stalks Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) all the way from Amity Island to the shores of the Bahamas.

Alongside Gary, we have Michael Caine as a budding love interest for Ellen after the between-movies death of her husband Martin. And for Caine, he hasn't been shy about how he knew the movie and his own performance was utterly terrible.

In a truly iconic response when asked about his turn in Jaws: The Revenge, Caine is believed to have said:

"I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific!"

Online digging doesn't throw up a precise source for that famed quote, although those sentiments are backed up in Caine's What's it All About? biography - where he thanks Jaws: The Revenge for paying for his house and giving him a nice holiday.

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