10 Movies Everyone Confuses With Other Movies
4. The Shadow & The Phantom
More power to you if you can recall which of these two movies starred Alec Baldwin and which starred Billy Zane.
Released in the summers of 1994 and 1996, The Shadow and The Phantom are both superhero movies adapted from 1930s pulp fiction figures, focusing on the titular heroes as they battle megalomaniacal evil forces in New York City, starring the strikingly similar Baldwin and Zane respectively.
Though the movies are different enough tonally - The Shadow is grittier and more noir-inspired while The Phantom strikes a far goofier note - both tackled similar material with such little fanfare that they basically ended up fused together in the cultural consciousness of moviegoing audiences.
Both movies received wildly mixed reviews from critics and flopped at the box office, though with its mere $17.3 million gross against a $45 million budget, The Phantom was far more of a bomb than its genre brother.