Updated September 24, 2021 13.4k votes 2.9k voters 161.9k views
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Vote up the wigs that stole every scene they were in.
Costume design is tricky. When it's done well, it often flies under the radar; you're just seeing well-dressed characters. On the other hand, bad costume design can really distract from a movie or TV show, and there may be no greater fashion faux-pas than cheesy wigs. There are probably a handful that immediately jump to the forefront of your mind. Characters who wear bad wigs steal the show, and never in a good way.
What's the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions Swordfish? Okay, well maybe the second thing with that particular movie, but it's John Travolta's hair. Eleven's wig on Stranger Things was explicitly a wig, but it was still rough. Bad wigs can easily become a punching bag for any project, so it's particularly head-scratching that they seem to happen so often – and to otherwise nicely dressed characters, too.
Here are some of the worst wigs on TV and in movies. Don't try any of these looks at home.
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Billy Hargrove's Mullet In Stranger Things Is Oddly Sexy And Disgusting
One of Stranger Things new characters in Season 2, Billy Hargrove (Dacre Montgomery) is the rough and tough older brother no one wants. But for all of his bullying, he certainly knows how to rock denim on denim and make the ladies swoon with his ratty, curly, and very questionable mullet locks. Montgomery has revealed the hair is a wig – as if there was any question.
1,180 votes
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Taylor Lautner's New Moon Wig Was Pretty Offensive
Jacob's (Taylor Lautner) luscious locks look laughable in The Twilight Saga:New Moon. In this installment of Hollywood whitewashing, Lautner was given a tan and an eight-foot-long wig to convince the audience that he's of Native American descent. It did not work. The wig can be described with one appropriate word: woof.
There were times when Eleven's (Millie Bobby Brown) wig looked like it was just placed on her head and that a single gust of wind would carry it straight to the Upside Down. It was never supposed to be real hair (the kids put a wig on her to make her less conspicuous) but it definitely looked fake.
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All Of John Travolta's Hair In Swordfish Was Terrible
Not only was the wig worn by Gabriel (John Travolta) in the 2001 hacker movie Swordfish revolting, but his landing strip of a beard was unforgivable as well. Going off hair alone, he may have been the most villainous villain of all time.
Greer's (Bruce Willis) 'do in Surrogates would have been more at home on one of Ralphie's classmates from A Christmas Story. He looked like Dennis the Menace. Or Owen Wilson. Regardless, it was a terrible look made even worse by everyone's mental picture of Willis's famous cue ball head.
Considering that Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) in Ghost Rider regularly lost his hair when his head transformed into a flaming skull, it seems like a curious decision to give him a full Harry Potter mop when he's in human mode. The crew really just gave themselves a lot more work than was necessary.
