The "hell" scenes are all a complete and utter joke. It looks like a Nintendo 64 video game.
And don't give me the time excuse, this came out the same year as "The Lost World: Jurassic Park.'
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It's strange b/c the front of the DVD/VHS has "The special effects movie of the year" lol.
Y'know, I could eat a peach for hours
It was a joke pretty much. The movie tanked - it was an awful adaptation to the comic and was as cheesy as an action 90s movie could be.
I was a huge Spawn fan back in the 90's (along with many other Image titles) and clearly remember seeing this with my brother and friend. We walked out laughing as it was one of the worst movies we had seen - notably the horrible CGI used was worse than you found in some video games during the same time period. That's pretty bad.
The whole movie is a JOKE.
Director Mark Dippe and effects supervisor Steve "Spaz" Williams basically invented the art of CGI effects. They did the water creature on Abyss, the liquid metal T-1000 in T2, and the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.
The problem with the cape was that they were trying to recreate Todd McFarlanes impossibly long, stylized, flowing capes from the comics. Having unrealistically long capes works in comics because everything is stylized, but it doesn't work in live action film. The same thing goes for the super high collar on the cape; they were being too literal in adapting some of the designs.
Todd McFarlane was a producer, so he may have forced them to be so literal. The Spawn costume itself, as worn by Michael Jai Parker, was really well done and not an overly literal interpretation.
hahah seriously, the hell scenes are *beep* eye cancer. Who greenlit this ugly piece of crap?
shareI actually worked on this movie and from what I know, the hell scenes were done for free by a friend of the director. The friend was working on the CGI for 'American Werewolf in Paris' at the time, and tweaked the werewolf model in order to make the Devil character. He did the Hell scenes on his weekends and off-hours, which would explain the poor quality.
I spoke to the producer at the premiere and he basically said it was either this or have no Hell scenes at all. Everyone knew they weren't good, but they just didn't have money for anything better.