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Effects in horror movies for this list will be looking at the most egregious, laughable and simply unnecessary uses of computer generated effects in horror movies will also be including tv mini series that are essentially whole films edited for television warning some spoilers ahead.

Which horror movies special effects ruined the suspense for you.

Let us know in the comments below Number 10 Transformations.

Van Helsing anna No this 2004 gothic horror thriller starring Hugh Jackman tried to update classic universal characters like dracula and Frankenstein's monster for the 21st century.

The results were mixed at best.

That's not to say Van Helsing doesn't have its fans while the character designs themselves look convincing in motion it's a whole different story.

This cannot be.

The climax shows monster Hunter, Abraham Van Helsing and Count dracula transforming into their animal forms and battling to the death as the creatures fight.

Their interactions with the environment are largely unconvincing and the emotional beats of the story are modeled by distracting transformation effects.

Some things are better left forgotten.

Number nine the corn god Children of the corn C.

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Children of the corn is an example of both.

The lord did come to me and he was a shape.

It was he who walks behind the rows.

This is Stephen King adaptation tells the eerie story of a cult of murderous Children who make human sacrifices to appease he who walks behind the rows.

A bloodthirsty deity said to live among the corn stalks.

Things get a little wacky when that deity finally makes an appearance in the last act sort of.

The only thing scary about this demon is how unimaginative it is represented by grainy colored lights and a sentient red cloud.

The movie's final boss is done in by a molotov cocktail and unfortunate special effects is he dead?

I think so.

Number eight the sculptures the haunting I'm gonna stop you now Based on a classic in the genre this reviled remake veered away from the psychological horror that made the original movie and the novel is based on so memorable what the original gets done with camera tricks and the power of suggestion.

The remake can't even get done with 36 years of developments in special effects.

While the haunted house itself is impeccably designed.

Once the walls start flexing and the crying sculptures made an appearance it was over john DeMont directed this movie after practically revolutionizing the modern C.

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Blockbuster with 1996 is twister but the only thing the haunting revolutionizes is making crying ghost Children not scary at all.

Number seven Baby Doll one missed call that's not my ringtone considered one of the worst J horror remakes of the two thousand's clunky storytelling and wooden acting wasn't the only thing keeping this one from becoming a classic one, missed call also features many, many bizarre and downright incompetent CG effects?

This one is by far the most memorable for all the wrong reasons.

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Baby holding a cell phone unsupervised screen time.

The horror, although our glimpse of the baby lasts mere seconds, the lingering shots of its snarling and glowing eyes just adds to the ridiculousness of it all.

Number six Freddy caterpillar Freddy versus Jason.

The nightmare on Elm Street franchise has a long history of creative practical effects, including those where Freddy takes the form of a worm like creature.

So why the heck does this design from?

16 years later look so much worse, yep, you guessed it.

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Sure it's supposed to be a humorous bit, but it ultimately backfires as the scene turns serious when the caterpillar violently shoves itself down Free berg's throat.

Yeah, we're laying off the hook a after this one, Number five mask mix up, Halloween H 2020 years later, what would the hopelessly homicidal Michael Myers be without his iconic mask.

Apparently this 1998 sequel required the use of multiple masks which as you'd expect doesn't do wonders for the continuity department rather than reshoot the whole movie which would have been tremendously expensive.

Certain shots were redone with a new mask, what couldn't be fixed with reshoots had to be digitally altered.

The result is an eyesore of late nineties C.

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# four possessed dear the ring to Rachel.

This unfortunate scene from the lackluster sequel finds original star Naomi Watts and child actor David Dorfman besieged by a horde of possessed deer on a country road.

This wouldn't be so bad, but the CG idea are so uncanny, so glossy that the only appropriate reaction to them is confusion.

Get down, it's hard to take them seriously as a threat even as they come crashing through the car windows, antler first coupled with some truly awful smashing glass effects and naturally confounded performances from Watson Dorfman.

The only thing these deer scare away is any pretense of realism.

Number three The Langoliers, The Langoliers Yet another Stephen King adaptation, this 1995 mini series about a commercial airplane that somehow punches through a time wormhole and ends up stuck in the past.

If these seem like the perfect circumstances for pure existential horror, just wait until the title monsters appear the langoliers described as creatures who feast on time itself, give new meaning to the phrase scenery chewing.

The only problem is that they look more like flying meatballs with teeth than temporal monsters.

Although it's a mini series, The langoliers has to be on this list for the sheer audacity of trying to make us believe these balls of C.

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Badness are supposed to be scary.

Good Lord, look at that.

What is it?

Number two wall Freddie a nightmare on Elm Street.

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But usually these attempts just make us remember how special the originals really were case and point the 2010 remake of a nightmare on Elm Street.

It's not real, it's real.

In trying to recreate the iconic scare of Freddy Krueger appearing in the wall over nancy's bed.

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Effect that left little to the imagination and looked hopelessly fake.

Yeah the original effect was done with low lighting and a spandex wall proving that sometimes you just can't beat practical effects.

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Number one computer generated things.

The thing, while it was a box office disappointment in its first run, john Carpenter's 1982 gory sci fi horror Opus became a cult classic.

This was due in large part to the graphic creature effects created by movie makeup legend rob boutin.

Okay, when a prequel slash remake was released in 2011, fans were disappointed that almost all the monsters became computer generated in post production.

It's a shame because the movie otherwise isn't that bad.

But without the practical effects of the eighties version intact, the cell replicating extraterrestrials feel way less real and way less scary.

As a result, this is a case of unconvincing C.

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Taking away from a good horror movie.

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