10 High Budget Horror Movies With Terrible CGI

Samuel Bayer has a lot to answer for.

A Nightmare on Elm Street is an iconic staple of the genre; Wes Craven's original holds revered status amongst fright fans and is considered to be one of the frontrunners for the title of the greatest and most influential horror outing in cinematic history.

This makes Bayer's handling of the 2010 reboot that much more egregious. Despite an enormous budget of $35 million, the remake received almost entirely negative critical reception; many cited the film's glaring lack of originality and lamenting what was seen as a missed opportunity to bring the storied franchise into the 21st century. Bayer's take on Craven's classic essentially recycled the 1984 version's plot line and kill sequences with little to nothing in the way of new material.

While critics saved most of their punches for alternative aspects of production, the 2010 offering was slated for its shoddy effect work and is infamous for possessing one of the more atrocious CGI segments in recent memory: Freddie Krueger crawling out of Nancy Holbrook's bedroom wall.

The scene in the original is legitimately unsettling as the nightmarish slasher's form bulges through the wall above Nancy's sleeping head but the remake's take is disastrously underwhelming.

It is hard to find words that do justice to quite how bad the CGI is when Krueger's head appears, as the animation resembles an offering from somebody who failed a pre-school IT project. Krueger and Nancy are on-screen together but look like they are in two different scenes, as the abysmally integrated effects effortlessly ruin one of the most legendary horror moments in history.