CRAZY MAN

Nicolas cage’s best boNkers bits

VAMPIRE’S KISS

(1988) Eating a live cockroach was one of the less batty things Cage does in this tale of a publishing executive who begins to believe he’s one of the undead after a woman bites him in the neck. “I’m a vampire! I’m a vampire! I’m a vampire!” he screams through the streets.

DEADFALL

(1993) Directed by Cage’s brother Christopher Coppola, this film noir sees Cage off the chain as a cokehead criminal with a penchant for shades, loud clothes and OTT behaviour. He rants, he raves, he gibbers, he swears, and even has a complete toddler tizzy on the bed.

THE WICKER MAN

(2006) Neil LaBute’s terrible remake of the Christopher Lee classic has been long-since elevated to cult status due to Cage’s turn in the Edward Woodward role. “Not the bees! Not the bees!” he shrieks as he gets a face-full of stings from the little honey-making devils.

BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (2009)

Werner Herzog’s remake of Abel Ferrara’s corrupt cop classic sees Cage amp it up as the narcotics-and-gambling addicted lawman, who honks on crack pipes, hallucinates iguanas and threatens little old ladies with a cannonsized handgun.

MOM AND DAD

(2017)

Cage isn’t the only one going bonkers here, as a mysterious mass hysteria grips all parents who turn on their own children like violent zombies. Still, smashing up his own house with a sledgehammer singing the “Hokey Cokey”, shows that he’s still the king of movie nuttiness.