21 Stunningly Cheap (Very Bad) Special Effects

These moviemakers obviously didn't go to the Michael Bay Film Institute.
21 Stunningly Cheap (Very Bad) Special Effects

If Summer blockbusters are any indication, the acting in a movie can be completely wooden so long as the special effects threaten to literally blow the skin of the audience's meat sacks.

Our readers compiled a list of movies that obviously missed that memo, and wasted their budgets on who knows what. The worst offender is below, but first the runners-up ...

Cool, a video game boss from Resident Evil? No... this poorly animated creature is one of the primary antagonists in: T HE MUMmy RETURNS A 2001 movie
CRACKED.COM Star Trek: The Motion Picture Star Trek: The wrath of Khan Need a new space station? Spent all your budget on chest wax for Ricardo Montal
21 Stunningly Cheap (Very Bad) Special Effects
The production company making the $80 million sci-fi epic A Sound of Thunder went bankrupt before filming was completed. With no money left, the filmm
CRAGKED CONT DIRECTOR PHIL TUCKER HAD ORIGINALLY 3D PLANNED FOR THERE TO BE A ROBOT VILLAIN IN ROBOT MONSTER. WHEN USE OF THE ROBOT COSTUME THEY WANTE
21 Stunningly Cheap (Very Bad) Special Effects
The Salkinds. producers of the first three Superman movies. sold the rights to these guys... CANNONGROUP INC Poduotion ...who slashed the budget for S
ISLAND TRANEFORME! FORMERS DARK DF THE m on Michael Bay used footage from his 2005 movie The Island in Transformers 3. CRACKED.COM
21 Stunningly Cheap (Very Bad) Special Effects
21 Stunningly Cheap (Very Bad) Special Effects
21 Stunningly Cheap (Very Bad) Special Effects
CRACKED CO Transformers Pearl Harbor Michael Bay used the same footage of the aircraft carrier from Pearl Harbor (2001) in Transformers (2007).
21 Stunningly Cheap (Very Bad) Special Effects
GH STBUSTERSI II It's just so obviously a person painted green and wearing a Liberty costume. CRACKED
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21 Stunningly Cheap (Very Bad) Special Effects
Remember the De-evolution gun from this train wreck Of a film? T SACIHHOPE SUPER NINTENDO APRTOIF Hmmmm, wonder why it looks SO familiar? CRACKEDcO
4 The thing they never tell you about Freddy Krueger: He turns you into a mannequin before killing you. Or at least he did with this lady.
In the famous wounded soldier sequence of Gone With the Wind, a mini version of Atlanta built was However, due to a shortage of extras half of the sol
21 Stunningly Cheap (Very Bad) Special Effects
This thing in Alien RROGB Mr. Fusion in Back to the Future COFFEE GRINDER *ees LUONE CRACKED COM

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