12 Oscar Winning Actors Who Starred In Awful Horror Movies

He might be considered one of the greatest actors of the 20th century and the recipient of two Best Actor Oscars for his iconic roles in On the Waterfront and The Godfather (though he famously declined the latter in protest of the film industry’s treatment of Native Americans), but by the time the ‘90s rolled around his career was well past its peak.

Nowhere is there more solid proof of that then the fiasco that was The Island of Dr Moreau. Based on the H.G. Wells novel of the same name and starring Brando in the titular role as a mad scientist who populates his own private island with half-man, half-beast type mutants made in his laboratory, the film is known for being one of the biggest f*ck ups in cinema history.

Beset by problems like going massively over budget and schedule, last minute re-castings and original director Richard Stanley getting fired by fax just three days into filming, the production didn’t improve once new director John Frankenheimer was drafted in either.

Brando and his co-star Val Kilmer reportedly acted like feuding divas throughout filming too. Constant rewrites meant Brando had to have his lines radioed in via earpiece which often picked up local police frequencies and resulted in him uttering unintentional lines like ‘There’s a robbery at Woolworth’s’. He also bizarrely insisted on wearing a bucket on his head in one scene while Kilmer often turned up late to set and was his usually difficult self.

Unsurprisingly, this epic behind the scenes cluster-f*ckery resulted in what’s since been hailed as one of the worst films of all time and earned itself a total of five Razzie nominations and one Razzie win for Brando for Worst Supporting Actor.