1. Edward Malus - The Wicker Man (2006)
Is this the worst Nicolas Cage performance or the best worst Nicolas Cage performance? Has any film performance, besides pretty much every performance in Tommy Wiseau's simply incredible The Room, provided such liberal amounts of unintentional hilarity? Cage gives a suitably insane performance as Edward Malus, a fish-out-of-water who stumbles across a dystopian, cultish society in a small village. It is a terrible, unwanted update of the 1973 British cult classic. Having said that, it does provide huge entertainment value because of how absurd the whole thing is. Highlights include Cage dressing up as a bear and punching several women in the face and his infamous showdown with a mask of CGI bees. On the film, Cage has acknowledged the absurdity of it saying that:
There is a mischievous mind at work on The Wicker Man, you know? You know what I mean? And I finally kind of said, 'I might have known that the movie was meant to be absurd'. But saying that now after the fact is OK, but to say it before the fact is not, because you have to let the movie have its own life.
The movie had its own life, alright, and died a death with critics and audiences. Cage was, once again, nominated for a Razzie for Worst Actor. Thoroughly deserved it was, too (he lost to Marlon Wayans for Little Man).