10 Movies Ruined By Creepy CGI

Now, there are very few ways in which Son of the Mask could be fixed without just being redone from the ground up, but it'd certainly be a far more tolerable movie if it didn't feature an absolutely bone-chilling CGI baby.

The plot follows cartoonist Tim Avery (Jamie Kennedy), who after conceiving a baby with his wife while wearing The Mask, ends up with a son imbued with the powers of trickster God Loki.

A low-hanging premise, for sure, albeit one drained of any sense of goofy fun by the terrifying and relentless use of a digital baby, which terrorises both Tim and the audience with its bug-eyed, inhuman expressions, prompting viewers to instinctively yell "Kill it with fire!" at the screen.

A big part of the problem is that the transitions between the actual baby actor and the VFX replacement are hilariously obvious, and while a real baby clearly couldn't perform many of these cartoonish actions, virtually no effort is made to blend the real with the artificial.

Given the $100 million budget, it's all the more embarrassing that the title character looks like an absolute freakshow.

Were the effects more convincing, Son of the Mask could've probably been a relatively inoffensive family flick, but it's thrust into the echelons of full-tilt horror due to its ill-conceived digital protagonist.