no you take me welcome to watch mojo
and today we're counting down our picks
for the top 10 horror movie effects that
did not age well
for this list we'll be looking at
special effects from popular horror
movies that look
less than optimal these days what is
your favorite horror movie
let us know in the comments below now on
to the countdown which we hope
age is better than these horror film
special effects
here we go number 10
the deer the ring two
no one was really asking for a sequel to
the ring
but we got one anyway in 2005. most
people tend to ignore it
while the first movie contains some
genuinely good filmmaking
the ring 2 contains horrible cgi deer
that pretty much
suck any semblance of tension or fear
from the scene in question
go drive dry just don't stop the car
the deer are attracted to samara's
presence and they proceed to attack
rachel's car
complete with kamikaze deer that barrel
straight into the hood
at fast speed
the concept of the scene is fairly
ludicrous but even more embarrassing
are the cgi deer they look horrible
and even by 2005 standards are pretty
shoddy
number nine the liquor resident evil
liquors are some of the most popular
enemies in the resident evil series
and one was included in the 2002 movie
adaptation
however early 2000 cgi is notoriously
poor
and time certainly hasn't been kind to
this creature
there are some decent close-ups where
the liquor is obviously made from
practical effects
but the filmmakers employed cgi for
all the full body shots and the visual
effects look like they were ripped
straight from the video game itself
and no that is definitely not a good
thing it's
always lame when the final boss and
climactic action sequence revolves
around an unconvincing cgi creation
number eight the infected i am legend
for a movie with a huge budget we
expected better visual effects than this
most of the new york stuff looks
fantastic but the infected mutants
officially known as dark seekers looked
borderline
bad the mutants were originally
portrayed by actors wearing prosthetics
but director francis lawrence scrapped
the idea one week into filming
and decided to utilize motion capture
instead
it's pretty telling that gollum who
debuted five years
before this movie was released looked
better than the dark seekers
they are obviously cgi creations and
they look quite awful
standing next to will smith the faces
alone look like
something out of a ps2 game i can save
you
i can say i can help you you are sick
and i can help
number seven werewolf transformation
van helsing
most of the cgi stuff from van helsing
looks quite
iffy today including the werewolf
transformation
back in 1981 john landis released an
american werewolf in london
which is still seen as the benchmark for
werewolf transformation effects
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it certainly looks better than this
velken transforms directly in front of
anna and while the initial freakout and
wall climb is quite effective
things go off the rails once velken
actually starts to change
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the transformation from human to
computer effect is quite
obvious and jarring and the wolf itself
is certainly not convincing
that melting skin is just not good it is
some good music though
number six the creatures the thing
john carpenter's 1982 original contains
some of the greatest practical effects
ever put to film the remake looks
considerably worse
despite being made decades later the
remake
actually used practical effects to be
more in keeping with the iconic original
but these were replaced by cgi in
post-production
and while the design of the creatures is
terrific
the cgi lets the imagination down by
being so
thoroughly meh not much about them looks
good
including the video gamey faces low
textures
and waxy lighting
this could have been a great prequel if
they just spent a couple of more months
in post clearing up the effects
as it stands it's a far inferior product
that was
mostly ignored
number five freddy spies on nancy
a nightmare on elm street we hate to
keep saying
that the oldies are better but the
oldies are better why are you screaming
i haven't even caught you yet the 2010
nightmare and elm street remake was
widely maligned even robert england got
in on the dissing by criticizing the
makeup effects
but that wasn't the movie's only problem
in one sequence recreated from the
original
freddy appears out of the bedroom wall
to spy on nancy
in the original freddy simply hovers
over the bed
in the remake he full-on emerges from
the wall bends his way to nancy's right
and opens his mouth in an
unintentionally hilarious growl
everything about the sequence looks
kinda ridiculous
including the little knives that shoot
out of the wallpaper
was cgi the death knell for horror
number 4 corridor chase alien 3.
mostly everyone ignores alien 3
including james cameron and even david
fincher himself
who has since disowned the film
part of its reputation stems from the
dark and dreary story and part of it
comes from the horrible visual effects
on display
most of the cgi looks lame today as does
most cgi from the early 90s
especially in the corridor chase with
david the scene features some
genuinely impressive camera work and
sound design
but virtually all tension dissipates
once the alien comes on
screen
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the composition and lighting integration
is off
and the alien moves in such a
hilariously janky manner that it's hard
to take it seriously
maybe this looked good in 1992 but it's
fairly laughable today
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number three michael's cgi mask
halloween h2o 20 years later
this may have been the best halloween
sequel but it contains the most
embarrassing sequence in the entire
franchise when michael appears to
charles he
is sporting a very obvious cgi mask
hi the mask is only on screen for about
a second but it's enough
while there are multiple explanations
floated for this usage
one claim is that the original mask used
in the scene received a poor reception
from test audiences
so the decision was made to digitally
recreate the iconic mask from the first
movie
if so it wasn't the right decision
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late 90s cgi was bad enough but it's
made even worse when plastered over the
face of a live
action actor it's halloween i guess
everyone is entitled to one good scare
number two samuel l jackson's famous
death
deep blue sea wouldn't get that close by
you
just a suggestion this shark movie is
mostly known for the iconic scene in
which samuel l jackson is killed
mid inspirational speech it's both
shocking
and hilarious and has rightly earned its
place on the most
unexpected movie deaths of all time
lists
but it also yeah we're saying it looks
really really bad
that's enough now from all of you
granted most people can overlook the
poor visual effects owing to deep blue
sea's status as a cheesy b
movie but everything about this death
looks horrid today
including the shark the mauled samuel l
jackson figure
and the splashing water
even when the shark retreats it goes
back under the water in the most
unrealistic and unconvincing fashion
imaginable
this was a fantastic idea nearly ruined
by horrible execution just ate them
just ate them crazy before we continue
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number one the whole movie cats
can cats be considered a horror movie
not really but its visual effects were
the scariest thing we saw in 2019
okay okay we're just kidding on to the
reel number one
number one shark explosion jaws 3d
yay more sharks you talk about some
damn sharks this may genuinely be one of
the worst movies ever made
but even if that's not the case the
entire climax with the shark attacking
the station may be the worst looking
sequence
ever put to film
the entire thing looks almost like a
school project complete with the poorly
composed floating shark
shattering glass and the hilarious way
the shark breaks
all semblance of physics and stops
moving after hitting the pain
the explosion is even worse complete
with computer blood and dreadful organs
that are blown towards the camera
it is pure schlock and unworthy of the
legacy of the original
legendary jaws
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