welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
worst cgi monsters of all time some
things are better left forgotten
for this list we'll be looking at the
goofiest most unconvincing and most
hard-looking movie monsters to have been
created by cgi which of these did you
find the worst let us know in the
comments below
number 10 mama mama you know for a movie
produced by guillermo del toro we really
expect it better the initial utilization
of mama is super effective the movie
works best when it shows mama speed
walking around with that distinctive
inhuman gate it really gets the
imagination going and it makes for a
horrifying sight and then they had to
ruin everything by showing mama's full
face
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more and more of mama is revealed as the
movie goes on and we get less and less
scared of her
things completely fall apart with the
ending not only is the cgi
disappointingly poor but the physical
design of mama's face veers into
unintentional hilarity what we don't see
is often much scarier than what we do
and mama proves it
number nine the jump scare shark
deep blue sea
a shark from 1975
looks much better than a shark from
1999.
something went very wrong there and that
something was cgi come on down and jump
some of this
for a movie costing upwards of 80
million dollars deep blue c has some
truly abysmal visual effects as
surprising and out of the blue as
russell's death is its impact is ruined
by the hilariously awful cgi the shark
obviously looks ridiculous but the worst
offense has to be samuel l jackson's
digital counterpart
to get out of here
first we're gonna seal up
it doesn't look even remotely human and
the crappy video game blood certainly
doesn't help yeah we're not supposed to
take this scene very seriously as it's
meant to generate shocked laughs of
disbelief but man is it ever bad
number eight the dark seekers i am
legend
a very well received post-apocalyptic
movie i am legend contains one obvious
flaw the horribly designed dark seekers
vampire-like monsters created from
genetic engineering these things bear
pale skin superhuman agility and a
hatred of sunlight
the dark seekers were originally filmed
with actors wearing prosthetics but they
decided to switch to cgi owing to the
inhuman physical demands of the
creatures that's all well and good but
it resulted in some very digital looking
people
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creating humans or humanoid creatures
out of cgi is rarely a good idea it
almost always looks janky and fake just
as it does here our brains simply know
better and it makes suspension of
disbelief very difficult
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number seven all the creatures
van helsing
this action movie is an homage to the
classic universal monster films somehow
the cgi creature designs are even less
convincing than decades-old makeup work
this movie should have contained
state-of-the-art special effects that
brought the likes of dracula mr hyde and
werewolves to vivid life but no despite
the movie's 170 million dollar budget
the creatures in this film are laughably
bad
van helsing's fight with digital hyde is
atrocious the climactic battle between
helsing and dracula looks like it was
ripped from a monster fighting video
game this movie had a solidly enjoyable
premise but it's ruined by poor writing
and some obnoxiously bad visual effects
but we need to find ourselves on the
opposite side of the board
number six the werewolf an american
werewolf in paris
we don't know what's worse about this
movie the abhorrent cgi werewolves or
the fact that it dares share a relation
with an american werewolf in london that
is a horror comedy classic with
state-of-the-art oscar-winning makeup
work from rick baker
switching from history-making
prosthetics to early cgi was a horrible
horrible idea and the movie deserves
every ounce of derision it received
the digital wolves look dreadful as does
most cgi from 1997 and the less said
about the transformation sequences the
better it's both a major visual effects
misfire and a glaring insult to baker's
legacy
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number five the demon baby one missed
call
with a very strong zero percent on
rotten tomatoes the english language
remake of one missed call is an exercise
in bad filmmaking however one scene is
particularly terrible slowly entering a
dark room beth encounters what can only
be described as a demon baby holding a
cell phone
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the concept of the scene is goofy in and
of itself and even with good special
effects it probably wouldn't have gone
over well but the horrible cgi on
display transforms an already silly
scene into something truly unforgettable
every ounce of potential fear is sucked
away by the outrageously bad cgi and the
scene turns into a source of
unintentional comedy
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number four the freddy pillar freddy vs
jason
we're used to seeing some weird stuff in
the elm street movies but this takes the
cake an ambitious crossover between the
elm street and friday the 13th
franchises freddy vs jason combines the
best elements of both freddie takes full
advantage of his logic manipulation and
possesses stoner bill freeburg through
some kind of freddie caterpillar
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don't ask the caterpillar casually
strolls into the room and we're laughing
even before it whips out the hookah it
looks ridiculous and the below average
cgi doesn't help
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the digital monster also shares the
screen with the very human actor kyle
levine which of course makes it look
even worse if we wanted poorly rendered
smoking caterpillars we just watched the
live-action alice in wonderland instead
you're not absalom i'm absolute the
question is
who are you
number three the thing
the thing
this 2011 prequel shares much in common
with an american werewolf in paris and
its criticisms are nearly identical not
only is it an unasked for companion to a
beloved classic but it completely flips
what makes the original so iconic the
practical effects in the 1982 version
are some of the most disgustingly
effective in movie history
the prequel fails to honor its legacy
and instead resorts to bad cgi the
scenes involving the thing contain some
great ideas but they're all wasted on
ugly special effects that sap the
sequences of their potential
the overly digitized humans don't have a
semblance of believability to them so it
makes their transformations unconvincing
what should be horrifying and gross is
instead grossly disappointing
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number two
malbolger
spawn
poor cgi is often compared unfavorably
to video games sometimes that's a little
harsh but in this case it actually looks
like something out of a video game and
like an early ps1 game at that the
bargain
if you leave my army you can see wanda
again
serving as the big climax spawn and
kaliostro are sent to hell and encounter
a massive demon named malbolgia this
should be a thrilling moment of movie
magic but it's completely ruined by
shoddy late 90s cgi
and that's exactly the kind of talk we
don't tolerate around here everything
about this scene sucks but malbolgia
looks especially terrible the cgi was
never that impressive but there was a
certain innovative charm to it
unfortunately it's dated horribly and
cannot be taken seriously there's no
getting around it 90s cgi looks awful
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number one this scorpion king the mummy
returns and here we have it the greatest
cgi in movie history
wait no the the opposite of that the
awful scorpion king has been
relentlessly mocked over the years and
is often regarded as some of the worst
cgi of all time it deserves every bit of
the criticism
it's just
mind-bogglingly terrible casting the
rock as the scorpion king was a good
idea and the character went over well so
much so that he earned his own spin-off
but few remember that as much as this
the rock's digital face is laughably
appalling turning his big dramatic
entrance into a source of head-shaking
comedy how this got past the production
stage we have no idea go hell and take
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