28 Totally Rad Special Effects From ‘80s and ‘90s Movies

It’s amazing what some K-Y jelly and glow stick fluid can do on set

There’s a lot that you youngins can make fun of us out-of-touch fogies about. But after you see these top-notch effects from 30 or 40 years ago, you’ll see that “our day” wasn’t all that lame after all. If anything, because of the transition into the digital age, the effects were sometimes way worse in the 2000s. Lookin’ at you, Scorpion King. 

So refrain from the old-folk jokes for a few minutes to read this list. Then you can rip our Beanie Baby collection to shreds — just verbally though, please.

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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Hook

Little Shop of Horrors

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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An American Werewolf in London

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