11 Movies Where The Reshoots Were Painfully Obvious

8. Jaws: The Revenge

The sheer terror on the faces of Universal executives as they sat down to watch Jaws: The Revenge can only be imagined. Not the terror that comes with watching a great horror movie; it's the terror of realising they'd spent millions to make such a turkey. No amount of reshoots would have salvaged it, but they did decide to add a new ending to make it a little happier.

The original climax saw the mother of the family being hunted by the psychic, vengeful shark (long story) impaling it with a broken bowsprit. It trashed around in pain and destroyed the boat before finally dying. The effects looked abysmal and test audiences were sad the friendly Jamaican scientist was eaten, so the new ending had the shark explode for no apparent reason when he's impaled and the scientist somehow survives being beaten in half.

The new footage jars so badly that it is immediately apparent something is wrong. The crude model used for the exploding shark (seen above) is a total embarrassment and archive footage of the sharks death from the original movie is spliced in to complete the effect. They also failed to mask that it was shot in a tank; the ocean can be seen washing over the sky in the background.