Nicolas Cage Archives

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 19, 2001Making Nosferatu with a Real Vampire

This comes with the clever and uniquely original premise that asks what would happen if during the making of the 1922 Nosferatu actor Max Schreck turned out to be a real vampire

Director: E. Elias Merhige

Actors: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Cary Elwes, Udo Kier, …

Category: Horror

19 January 20011 February 2025 by Roog

The 1973 version of The Wicker Man is a cult classic; this is one of the worst remakes of all time that gets nothing about the original right, blunts its themes about religion and tosses in crude shocks and killings

Director: Neil LaBute

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Molly Parker, Leelee Sobieski, …

Category: Horror

18 November 200726 March 2026 by Roog

Next (2007)

Rating: ★

Sep 9, 2007Precognition/Action Film

This adapts a Philip K. Dick story and then throws it out to make a generic action film with Nicolas Cage as a psychic. All the potential of its idea is lost amid a series of ridiculous plot twists

Director: Lee Tamahori

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 September 200718 January 2025 by Roog

A Thousand Words (2012)

Rating: ★

Mar 2, 2012Man Has a Thousand Words Before He Dies Comedy

Eddie Murphy's presence is not enough to lift the lame premise of this comedy where he is given a curse where he has a thousand words to say before he dies … a film that has a soggy marshmallow heart rather than one that lets Murphy loose to do what he does best

Director: Brian Robbins

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Kerry Washington, Cliff Curtis, Clark Duke, …

Category: Fantasy

2 March 201213 December 2023 by Roog

Willy’s Wonderland (2021)

Rating: ★★

Feb 27, 2021Possessed Animatronic Robots

A horror film premised around Nicolas Cage beating the crap out of a series of possessed animatronic robots, a fairly blatant copy of the Five Nights at Freddy's videogame

Director: Kevin Lewis

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Beth Grant, Ric Reitz, …

Category: Horror

27 February 202131 December 2025 by Roog

Dream Scenario (2023)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 20, 2024Man Appears in People’s Dreams

A film in which Nicolas Cage keeps appearing in other people’s dreams. This goes from an initial wild absurdism to something that becomes bitingly satiric as it takes on instant celebrity and Cancel Culture

Director: Kristoffer Borgli

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Dylan Gelula, …

Category: Fantasy

20 January 202425 January 2026 by Roog

Arcadian (2024)

Rating: ★★½

Aug 3, 2024Siege Against Monsters

A post-apocalyptic film that seems a conceptual merging of I Am Legend and A Quiet Place where Nicolas Cage and sons are at siege from monsters that surround their farmhouse every night

Director: Benjamin Brewer

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins, Sadie Soverall, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 August 202419 November 2025 by Roog

Longlegs (2024)

Rating: ★★

Aug 30, 2024Serial Killer Thriller

Osgood Perkins has been a director on the rise in recent years. This was his fourth film where he makes a serial killer thriller featuring a verrrry weird Nicolas Cage in the title role

Director: Osgood Perkins

Actors: Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, …

Category: Horror

30 August 202430 July 2026 by Roog

The Carpenter’s Son (2025)

Rating: ★★

Dec 19, 2025Horror Film About the Life of Jesus

A horror film about the life of Jesus as a child. That’s not quite what we end up getting but it is enough to give this a bizarre freakshow appeal and get this site watching. Behind that though, this is surprisingly traditional

Director: Lofty Nathan

Actors: Nicolas Cage, FKA Twigs, Noah Jupe, Isla Johnston, …

Category: Fantasy, Horror

19 December 202519 December 2025 by Roog