10 Worst Recastings In Horror Movie History

Tom Cruise blew everyone away with his portrayal of Lestat de Lioncourt in 1994’s Interview with the Vampire, proving to everyone that he was more than just an action man.

Unfortunately, people were less keen to praise the next actor who played the character. 

Queen of the Damned, which came out in 2002 and was based on another Anne Rice novel, served as a very loose follow-up to Interview, with Lestat being one of the few connecting threads between the two pictures. Instead of big star Tom Cruise in the role, he was played by Stuart Townsend who, at the time, was a bit of a nobody. 

This might have been okay had Townsend delivered a knockout performance, but alas, this didn’t happen. Instead, he and the rest of the cast hammed everything up to the Nth degree, and whilst the first movie was playfully camp, this was just ridiculous.

Poor Stuart has got to have some of the worst luck in movie history, as a few years before this disaster, he was originally cast as Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy but was fired early on in the process.