10 Worst Practical Effects In Movie History

While puppets and makeup are one, very often effective, means of practical effects, there are often dividends to be found in animatronics. You know, as long as you have the time to make them work properly.

Time was something that Howard The Duck did not have. With a deadline far too tight to make animatronics that could be trusted to not explode in the middle of filming, Universal turned to... other solutions.

That solution being to just stick duck heads on the actors and call it a day.

A total of six actors were used to portray the eponymous Howard, and a whole battalion of puppeteers were called in for the more complex movements. But the stiff, lifeless head and face are what ended up sealing the deal for this wannabe blockbuster.

While the eye movements help it maintain some degree of emotion, putting it on the lower end of the list, it does not come as a shock that Marvel has since slotted Howard the Duck into the "full CGI character" category - which is really where he belongs.