Top 10 Movies with the Worst Production Value
Sometimes, it seems like movie directors just don't care! If you put time and effort into your movie, you can create something fantastic. However, all the movies on this list have extremely low budgets (except for a few, which had high budgets but appear to have spent it all on useless things) and definitely the worst production values.
I can't believe this movie had a budget of $45 million! I find that very hard to believe, given the movie's overall production values. Maybe the animators spent the budget on useless things. It seems like it cost $1.00 to make this movie. The animation is extremely eye-gouging and horrendous, with off-track lip-syncing. This movie has nightmare-inducing character models (like the shopper lady), and the old versions of these models are much better.
The sound mixing is so bad that even the actors later acknowledged it. The motion-capture arm acting and facial expressions are terrible, with jokes and rumors circulating about how it was made using the Microsoft Kinect. Two notable examples are when Doctor Si Nustrix (who has an extremely big nose) is talking to Dex, and you can see in the background that Dan looks like he's spazzing out. Another example is when the Brand X army is marching, constantly throwing their hands around.
Amateurish and shoddy camera work. There are times when you can clearly see the cameraman's shadow or reflection off the glass doors. They only had enough money for one cat suit, which is obvious because when Cool Cat and his mom are "in the same room," you can see that in the middle, a column of tiles is shorter than the rest, indicating that they filmed at two different times and spliced the scenes together.
This movie also has lazy editing and horrible effects, bad dubbing, and awful sound direction.
The computer-generated imagery of the birds is putrid - think cut-and-paste from other sources. It's that bad. The birds seem more like puppets than real birds. Birdemic: Shock and Terror also has terrible editing, both in the film and the sound, including the infamous "HI!" from the beginning.
I think this was done in the spirit of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, purposely bad.
Cheap and poor production values. The bunny is a cheap, creepy mascot costume that has trouble keeping its eyes straight. The special effects are very poor. The animals Thumbelina encounters are poorly made animal costumes worn by people. When she flies away with the swallow, you can see air conditioners below making the swallow fly. The Jack and the Beanstalk segment also has poor special effects, and this movie contains loads of padding.
Just by looking at the title, you know it's bad. "Ice Cream Bunny," really?
This movie isn't as low quality as the other films on this list, but it's still shoddy. Tommy Wiseau gave almost no direction to the cast. When Juliette Danielle asked for direction, Tommy Wiseau told her to watch the movie Eyes Wide Shut, forcing Juliette to wing it as a villainess. Plus, the outdoor scenes use a green screen instead of filming outside. How lazy is that!
The cover is pure cringe. The people on the front with their eyes closed don't even show any emotion. They look like stock photos or mannequins.
Poor special effects and numerous errors in every scene. The most famous is a scene where in one shot, it's day, but in the very next cut, it's night. The movie overuses stock footage and has awkward backgrounds. When the actors accidentally hit the fake tombstone, it falls right down. They didn't even bother to re-shoot.
When you click on the picture, its main selling point is that it's so bad, it's hilarious! I've never seen a movie so bad that the only way to get people to buy it is to tell them that it's bad.
This is an obscure '60s "film" about a boring balloon parade. The special effects are terrible, even by 1960s standards. None of the balloons have animated mouths to make them look like they are talking, so the company makes them appear static and obviously moved around by the film crew. Speaking of the balloons talking, whenever they do, it's clearly someone off-camera doing a bored-sounding voice for them.
The balloons are so creepy-looking (even for the 1960s) that they could give the Garbage Pail Kids, the Oogieloves, and the Ice Cream Bunny a run for their money in terms of unintentionally creepy special effects for a kids' film.
At one point, the characters are at a church, and it's just some guy's office with religious decorations and a cardboard cutout of a cross colored in with a pencil taped to the walls. The film is so cheap and poorly made that it manages to make Plan 9 from Outer Space look good by comparison. And speaking of Plan 9 from Outer Space...
The Newcomers
The movie was made because the director claimed that anyone could make a horror movie. This wasn't really the case.
First, the opening sequence is just a car driving endlessly. This was supposed to fill time for the credits (in those days, the credits were placed before the movie), but they didn't edit them in.
The camera could only record 32 seconds of footage before having to be reset, causing many editing problems in the final cut. There's a scene where the audience can actually see the clapperboard (the device used to indicate a scene starting) on camera. It's only for a second, but it's quite noticeable.
Some scenes make absolutely no sense to the plot, like the couple making out and the Master's wives fighting. They shot the movie at night because the actors had day jobs, attracting moths that can be seen in the footage.
The Torgo character was supposed to be a satyr, indicated by a metallic rigging worn under the actor's pants. He put them on backward, making him look like he just had big knees. Other errors include that he was supposed to wear fake hooves but is seen wearing boots instead, and it's never actually mentioned that he's a satyr.
"Manos" means "hands" in Spanish. Think of what the title really means. Lastly, the overall budget for the movie was only $19,000 (about $143,000 today), likely the lowest budget of the movies listed.
Ugly, terrible, cheap, and obnoxious animation, with some scenes being reused. There are too many errors (like Wack's shadow moving when Wack himself is holding still) throughout the movie, and there is very bad editing in section 11. The character design is awful, and the dreadful sound mixing means that the music and sound effects are so loud that half the time you can barely hear what the characters are saying.
Poor editing is evident, such as in the scene where Princess Oriana's face randomly shows up in a frame of the song "Who Is the Boss." The creepy, awfully-done, and pointless 3D animation of Felix's head at the start even reappears at the beginning of the credits. And the lip-syncing is just bad.
The movie fails to properly use the Disney World setting and makes numerous glaring inaccuracies. The crappy blue screen is extremely obvious.
Although Disney is a harmless company in history, the movie goes out of its way to portray it as being evil, dangerous, and demonic. The director even went as far as comparing the company to a cult in a behind-the-scenes interview. While there are a couple of accidents in Disney World, they are not as frequent as this movie suggests.
