10 High Budget Horror Movies With Terrible CGI

10. Jaws 3-D

The third installment within the Jaws franchise holds the unenviable accolade of owning some of the worst CGI in cinematic history. Armed with $9 million, Steven Spielberg's 1975 epic original was an absolute triumph for the genre. While the animatronic shark may be unconvincing to contemporary fans, audiences who watched the film when it was first released were legitimately afraid to go swimming again afterwards.

Sadly, any advice to emphasize practical effects over computer imagery for Jaws 3-D clearly fell on deaf ears. Gone is the aura of ominous menace, replaced with shoddy graphics that do not come close to mimicking the success of Spielberg's robotic predator. The CGI sharks are poorly defined and brought to life in blocky, disjointed fashion; appearing as something vaguely resembling a shark crudely moulded out of grey clay. The embarrassingly sub-par climactic scene in which the shark explodes is so dreadfully animated that it is likely the same effect could have been achieved using a blank screen featuring only the word "BOOM".

Jaws 3-D sought to exploit the revival of 3-D technology at the time but the end result was a visual abomination. The fact that it possessed a budget of $18 million is absolutely comical when one considers just how unrealistic the film's digital efforts are. While Jaws was selected for the prestigious honor of preservation with the US National Film Registry as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant", the only lasting legacy Jaws 3-D leaves behind is a disastrous case study in the dangers of low-grade CGI and franchise exploitation.