10 Movies Ruined By Creepy CGI

Not to be confused with the infamous direct-to-video horror film of the same name released the year prior, Jack Frost stars Michael Keaton as a family man who dies in a car accident, only to be resurrected as an anthropomorphic snowman. Yup.

The title character was achieved through a combination of practical puppetry and visual effects, the latter of which too often make the kindly snowman look more at home in that aforementioned horror flick.

Seeing this stone-faced snowman try to emote with human-style lips and Michael Keaton's voice is just haunting, to say nothing of the character's ominously janky movements any time it tries to do, well, anything.

But the late, great Roger Ebert perhaps put it best in his scathing takedown of the family dud:

"The snowman gave me the creeps. Never have I disliked a movie character more. They say state-of-the-art special effects can create the illusion of anything on the screen, and now we have proof: It's possible for the Jim Henson folks and Industrial Light and Magic to put their heads together and come up with the most repulsive single creature in the history of special effects, and I am not forgetting the Chucky doll or the desert intestine from "Star Wars."

To see the snowman is to dislike the snowman. It doesn't look like a snowman, anyway. It looks like a cheap snowman suit. When it moves, it doesn't exactly glide--it walks, but without feet, like it's creeping on its torso. It has anorexic tree limbs for arms, which spin through 360 degrees when it's throwing snowballs. It has a big, wide mouth that moves as if masticating Gummi Bears. And it's this kid's dad."

Jeez. Say what you really mean, Rog.