10 'Rotten' Films That Will Eventually Be Viewed As Classics

8. The Wicker Man (2006)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 15% Why It'll Be Re-Assessed As A Classic: If 'classic' can be used in the sense that Plan 9 From Outer Space and Showgirls are 'classics', then Neil LaBute's The Wicker Man is an absolute masterpiece. Probably no one outside of the production thought Robin Hardy's 1973 original needed a remake, but what LaBute and star Nicolas Cage brought to audiences back in 2006 was a special kind of "so bad it's good". In a basic plot that feels more complicated because the film's simply all over the place, Nicolas Cage's troubled cop Edward Malus travels to an island of almost all-female inhabitants off the coast of Washington to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. There, he dresses up as a bear, beats up women, gets attacked by bees, and ultimately gets burned alive inside a giant wicker man. LaBute's film isn't to be approached as a horror movie at all - but go in assuming it's a comedy, and The Wicker Man is a work of genius. Even Cage has said since that he thought LaBute was making something intentionally "absurd" during filming. When even Nic Cage can't take a film seriously, you know you're in for a treat.