10 Horror Movie Remakes That Pissed Off Audiences

Fewer films have provided more to the internet meme community than Neil LaBute's remake of British folk horror The Wicker Man. 

Less an attempt to remake a foreign film for US audiences and more just an attempt to capitalise on a property almost as mythic as its own narrative - because, let's face it, even if you haven't seen The Wicker Man, you know what it is - LaBute's version stars Nicolas Cage in Edward Woodward's role as a policeman who goes searching for a missing girl on a remote island and finds a pagan cult. 

The one thing this film should never have been is funny. And yet, thanks to an untethered Cage and a series of questionable directorial and narrative decisions (the bees, the bear suit; you name it), it was precisely that. But audiences weren't laughing.

This is the film that cemented Cage's 'rage cage' image that would make him popular for all the wrong reasons across the following decade, and he hawws and gurns his way through scenes, looking unnatural in even the most ordinary of circumstances (riding a bicycle, say). There is no subtly, no tension and none of the original's atmosphere, and horror audiences decried it so badly it failed to make its budget back at the box office.