What Were the WORST Special Effects Ever Seen in a Movie?

self | July 13, 2012 | PJ-Comix

[onedoug]

“Va-va-voom, Ralphie Boy!”

[righttackle44]

Euwwww. LOL.

[Army Air Corps]

What, no mention of the aliens from the 1956 classic, Warning from Space?

[Army Air Corps]

Allison Hayes!

[ADemocratNoMore]

The classic movie Dark Star had absolutely fantastic special effects that must have cost all of $2 and change and were totally believable, provided one willing, totally suspended his disbelief. A Must see!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSccwmmrS5A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=T5YTXnnQjC4

[count-your-change]

I think I saw every Hopalong short there was. William Boyd was the best Hopalong. And probably the wealthiest.

[KarlInOhio]

Attack of the Eye Creatures. I can forgive an occasional visible zipper, but when they just put a head on one of the extras wearing a black shirt and pants to try to blend into the background you know that "they just don't care" as MST3K put it.

And speaking of MST3K, they had some real stinkers from Japan which made Godzilla look like a Kurasawa film. I'm thinking of ones like Prince of Space and Invasion of the Neptune Men. Why bother filming two explosions when you can show the same one twice.

[Army Air Corps]

Invasion of the Neptune Men

"They blew-up the Hitler Building!"

[goat granny]

I love swamppeople but LOL at your observation, it never occured to me..

[ConservativeTeen]

I think I cracked up for five minutes straight when I saw that scene for the first time, so terrible.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Dune.

Clash of the Titans.

[Trod Upon]

Take your pick of almost anything in Die, Monster, Die!

[goat granny]

I think thats Barney Frank is drag......:O)

[Army Air Corps]

Part of the laughter is the fact that your brain continues to ask, "Did I really see that?" Also, I recommend Starcrash for some cheesy 1970s fun; the full movie is available on YouTube. You should also look at the Internet Archive's vault of public domain movies - lost of stuff in there that was riffed on MST3K. The URL for the Internet Archive is archive.org.

[Army Air Corps]

Sorry, I goofed the hotlink. The URL is archive.org.

[Born to Conserve]

Best? I guess you like them fat.

[grateful]

I nominate Stephen King's The Langoliers and Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.

The Langoliers
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

[grateful]

Oh, and here are some of the worst of the "special effects" in Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=ZomvsK7G-Jw

[Tenlein]

This submarine chase from an Indian movie is my candidate for worst special effects ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK6puzyo9Hw

[calex59]

The scene in the episode of Dark Shadows where Barnabas Collins was bitten by the bat that turned him into a Vampire. Worse Bat effect ever, hilarious scene.