10 Worst Effects In Sci-Fi Movies
7. Spawn
As a bit of a major throwback, it would be easy to chalk up the bad VFX in this movie to the limitations of the technology at the time. However, what invalidates that excuse is the fact that this film was released almost four years after Jurassic Park and six years after Terminator 2, two of the most technically stunning films of the 20th century. Spawn? Not so much.
At an admittedly low budget of $40 million, Spawn was a difficult project to get off the ground. An adaptation of an obscure adult comic book that was the epitome of 90's culture, Spawn makes up in concept alone what it lacks in literally every other aspect.
The worst visual offender of the entire film comes in the concluding fight, when Spawn faces off against the demon Malebogia in one of the circles of hell. Looking like an oversized gremlin cropped into a rejected Mortal Kombat stage background, Malebogia is none too intimidating to the audience and shouldn't be to Spawn, for that matter.
Cult fans of the serial expected much better, and with a lacklustre plot to go along with the pitiful visuals, there really was nothing redeemable about the experience.