Even though your Uncle Grambo is a PROUD owner of Anchor Bay’s tremendously best limited edition release of “The Wicker Man” (now OOP, suckas), I’ve never been one of those cats that fawn incessantly about what an achievement it is. Truth be told, I’m a WAY bigger fan of the packaging than I am of the actual film itself. Unfortch, this often seems to be the nature of these so-called cult classics. More often than not, the hype heavily outweighs the final product itself (see also: the truly TERRIBLE Criterion release of “Equinox”).

Because of my history with the film, I had no real intentions of seeing the remake that hit theaters last summer. I suppose it didn’t help matters much that the undeniably durst Neil LaBute was at the helm. But now, after seeing this gut-bustingly HIGHlarious two-minute lowlight reel of Nic Cage turning in his what just may go down as THE batshit performance of The 00s, “The Wicker Man” has now been entered into my Netflix queue. Let’s be frank, we haven’t been privy to a performance this crazed since Pacino in “The Devil’s Advocate”! Doesn’t get much more best than this, y’all. [via The Grizz]

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