10 Horror TV Shows You Must Never Pause
2. Peter's Transformation - Hemlock Grove
Alright, this one might ruffle some feathers.
Hemlock Grove does admittedly deserve a measure of credit for combining CGI with practical effects for the physical transformations of werewolf Peter Rumancek (Landon Liboiron), yet it's also painfully clear watching these scenes that Netflix was a little tight with their VFX purse-strings.
The idea behind Peter's transformation, of his wolf form tearing out of his human body, is really quite fantastic, but the execution is far more middling due to CGI that felt poorly dated back when it originally aired almost a decade ago.
The biggest issues are the hilariously bad motion-tracking of CGI yellow eyes over actor Landon Liboiron's actual eyes, atrocious looking digital werewolf fingernails protruding from his human fingers, and embarrassingly low-poly tears on his back as the transformation continues.
The money shot, of the werewolf face bursting through Peter's own, looks pretty great, but everything else is hugely on the rough side, and doesn't at all hold up to the scrutiny of a freeze-frame.