Worst...effects...ever.

[J.R.]

So I flipped over to Sci-Fi this afternoon and Steven King's The Langoliers was on. And it had some the most laughable effects I've ever witnessed. This was made in '95, but the principle techniques used are a combination stock footage and horrid computer effects that would have looked bad in 1982.

[jmc]

It was a dumb idea to adapt that one to begin with.  It's not action oriented, so most of the movie consists of people talking about what's going on.

I hated the effects in WILD ZERO.

[Cullen]

While the effects in "Langoliers" are not the greatest, they are not the worst effects ever.  Discounting the Doctor Who episode I mentioned in a similar thread (see http://www.badmovies.org/bbs2/read.php?f=2&i=15327&t=15314 if you're curious), there is always "Gargantua," a TV movie made around the time of the "Godzilla" remake.  It's special effects are remarkably bad.

Moving from TV Land, there is always "Howling: New Moon Rising," specifically the last werewolf transformation sequence.  I could do better, and I've never done anything like it in my life.  Its no threat to Jack "Wolf Man" Pierce's work, let alone any modern make-up man, and Pierce did his best work in the thirties/forties.

As for it being a dumb idea to adapt "Langoliers," I have to disagree.  While it is not one of King's better works (Ted Sturgeon tells a similar, and better, story with "Yesterday Was Monday"), it is far from his worst.  Not all movies can be action movies, nor should they be.

Of course, I won't argue that a little LESS talking would've been nice in "Langoliers" miniseries...

[StatCat]

Try shot on video stuff for the worst effects. Zombie 90 is an infamous one with me because of it's dubbing and effects. There are scenes when you can clearly see the blood tubes that spurlt and one part where a plastic baby doll is torn apart.

Wild zero is classic, Guitar Wolf is always funny and head ache inducing.

[jmc]

The effects were crappy CGI, though.  I was really disappointed by WILD ZERO.  
I hate horror movies where you never really feel that the characters are in any jeopardy.  WILD ZERO was too much in the realm of horror comedy for my taste.  

I didn't mean that I wanted Langoliers to be a rock-em sock-em action movie, just that a story where there is very little action [that is, activity] from the characters probably won't work very well if it's adapted for the screen.   It works fine on the page, and probably would make a decent radio drama, but not on television.