Top 40 worst special effects of all time

[cheecky-monkey]

1.) The stop-motion gopher in "The three worlds of gulliver" (1960)...Was harryhausen drunk while animating this thing?

2.) The blue-screen helicopter crash in "DNA" (1997).

3.) The monster in "The creeping terror" (1964).

4.) The computer generated hulk in "The hulk" (2003).

5.) The stop-motion belial in "Basket case" (1982).

6.) The blue-screened crickets in "The beginning of the end" (1957).

7.) The Tokay gecko with clay frills glued to it's back (Supposedly a baby t-rex...right...) in "The lost world" (1960).

8.) The baby mutant salamander in "Gargantua" (1998).

9.) All the effects in "Biohazard: The alien Force" (1996).

10.) The dinosaurs in "Baby" (1985).

11.) The CG langoliers in "The langoliers" (1995).

12.) All of the rubber dinosaurs in "Attack of the super monsters" (1982).

13.) The blue-screen effects of Denis Quaid falling off the roof of a sky-scraper in "Dreamscape" (1984).

14.) The blob monster in "Y2K: Shutdown detected" (1999).

15.) All the effects of the TV series "Sliders".

16.) The CG licker in "Resident Evil" (2002).

17.) The CG spiderman in "Spiderman 2" (2004).

18.) The baby Djinn creature that come out of a wall in the beginnig of "Wishmaster 2: Evil never dies" (1999).

19.) The Scorpion king at the end of "The Mummy 2" (1999).

20.) All the effects in "Van Helsing" (2004).

21.) The alien in "Mission to Mars" (2000).

22.) The zombie make-up in "The Evil dead" (1982).

23.) All of the effects in "Overdrawn at the memory bank" (1985).

24.) The CG crocodile in "Crocodile" (2000).

25.) The ape creature in "carnivore" (2000).

26.) The CG cockroaches in "Fear of the dark" (2002).

27.) Satan in "Asylum of Satan" (1972).

28.) The crawling eye creatures in "The crawling eye" (1958).

29.) The helicopter crash in "The crawlers" (1990).

30.) The helicopter crash in "carnosaur 2" (1995).

31.) The dinos in "carnosaur" (1993).

32.) All the effects in "Rodentz" (2001).

33.) Just about every effect ever featured in a "Sci-fi channel original movie" (They only use really crappy CG).

34.) The blue-screen effects in "King Kong" (1976).

35.) The dino and miniatures in "The last dinosaur" (1977).

36.) All the effects in "The day after tomorrow" (2004).

37.) Just about every beasty ever featured on "Lost in space" (64-67)

38.) The sea monster in "Monster" (1979).

39.) The giant corn god at the end of "Children of the corn 3" (1995) (This is strange, considering it was done by effects-wiz Screaming mad George!)

40.) The stop-motion giant spider in "Planet of Dinosaurs" (1978).

[Fearless Freep]

The blue screen work in "Megaforce" was pretty bad, the work in "MetalStorm: The Destruction of Jared Syn" was...much worse

The handpuppets in "Robot Holocaust" come to mind

[Wence]

Hey what´s wrong with you !?
You have listed 40 worst special effects and not even mentioned STARCRASH ?

[AndyC]

The Killer Shrews? Although, that probably falls into costuming.

The acid slime spitting in Reptilicus. Or better yet, when the monster eats the sruggling man.

[lester1/2jr]

the screaming lobster shadow in "teenagers from outer space"

[Brother Ragnarok]

I don't think the Evil Dead zombies as the Carnosaur dinos deserve mention here.  Sure, the deinonychus and tarbosaurus each had about three different faces and kept changing size, but overall the rod-puppets looked pretty good.

[Master Blaster]

I gotta back you up on that one. While the zombie makeup in evil dead could be obvious, it sure as hell wasnt the worst. I thought it all looked pretty cool myself. Zombie Lake, now that was a crappy make-up job. Or how about the zombies in Night of the Zombies 2. Just white paint and WWII uniforms. Lame.

[StatCat]

The flying zombie head from Zombi 3 would top my list

[Ozzymandias]

The movie 39 STEPS is good except  for the police helicopter. It looks like a toy plane with a whimmy-diddle attatched. This was the early 1930's so they may not have had a good idea of what one looked like.

[Susan]

Superman 4 was pretty bad. The first film had way better effects, shot years earlier. What the hell?

[Dreggen]

Worst I've ever seen in the CG catagory would have to be "Vicious" with Tom Savini, and the movie cover looked so cool too.

[Fearless Freep]

Superman 4 was pretty bad. The first film had way better effects, shot years earlier. What the hell?

The first one was done with a budget, as was the second.  The fourth, and I believe the third, were produced by a different studio with much lower budget(s)

[Mitch McMafee]

I forgave you for not mentioning Star Crash, but not listing The Giant Claw???!!! ;)

And as I'm a self confessed bad special FX geek, the helicopter crash in DNA was accomplished with a process called Introvision, not Bluescreen as you described. But I do agree with you 100%, it looks REALLY bad!

Great topic BTW :)

[Dunners]

Dude the CGI hulk doesnt in any way deserve to be mentioned here. They did a good job with it.

The ED zombie make up/effects werent that bad either.

The spider man CGI wasnt that bad come on, you're nit picking now.

Besides you seem to be forgetting....

the AvP cgi
godzilla 2000 cgi
blade trinity(check out the trailer and tell me I'm wrong) cgi
the serpent 'finger puppet' in the viking women vs the sea serpent
Ed Wood 'special' effects
dark star special effects
manos effects
Coleman Francis effects
Freddys dead special effects
the blood waters of dr.Z effects
AND...house of the dead effects

[Fearless Freep]

Besides you seem to be forgetting....

He seems to have a thing against CG effects