10 High Budget Horror Movies With Terrible CGI
2. The Ring 2
Deer oh deer.
One of the more infamous uses of disastrously deplorable CGI within a horror movie ambled on to screens when The Ring 2 hit cinemas worldwide in 2005.
The original outing of The Ring was a smash-hit, grossing nearly $250 million worldwide and garnering positive feedback from critics and audiences alike. The wildfire success of the first installment led to a sequel being green-lit and given a massive budget of $50 million.
Which makes the scene featuring the now notorious herd of malevolent deer that terrorize Rachel and Aidan Keller while out on the road even more embarrassing. For starters, producers could have picked anything. It could have been wolves or bears, but deer? It is hard to imagine a less frightening animal.
Particularly when they are depicted on-screen as they are in The Ring 2. The CGI is a laggy, cartoonish mess, with the deer appearing so blurry it is like they were drawn onto whatever screen the unfortunate viewer is watching on with a marker. The sequences where the deer kick things up a notch, pursuing and battering the car, is more reminiscent of a sketch from Looney Tunes as opposed to a terrifying chase. The animation is legitimately so bad that it's hard to suppress one's laughter.
It is simply baffling as to how such a high budget film could stumble on the animation of something as simple as a deer. "Don't stop", Aidan continually mumbles throughout the sequence. "Please make it stop", the agonized audience howl back.