10 Horror Movie Reveals So Bad You Almost Walked Out
1. Spider Pennywise - It (1990)
Tim Curry gives a mesmerising performance in the 1990 It mini-series/movie as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, but the entire thing falls apart when he dips out ahead of the finale and is replaced with... this monstrosity.
Anyone who's read Stephen King's epic novel will be aware that Pennywise takes the form of a gigantic spider for its final battle with the Losers Club - a concept which was ultimately too ambitious for this $12 million adaptation to support.
The spider looks awful, to be kind - a janky practical effect which lacks menace and feels more at home in a low-rent B-movie than a serious-minded horror film.
King himself perhaps put it best when he described the large animatronic spider prop as "three Chevy headlights on the bottom of a wheelbarrow."
Despite costing $200,000 and four months of production time, the prop ends It on an unintentionally comical note which couldn't be further from the genuinely terrifying menace of Curry's performance up to that point.
On repeat viewings, you're better off just turning the movie off 10 minutes before the end.