#but mostly i just didnt love the prosthetics esp when compared to all the other prosthetics in the film which were SO incredible?? like in
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i love spoilers sm and im also terrified of watching the substance, would u mind describing what monstro elizasue looks like?? im super curious I've only heard vague details!!
trying to answer this ask im thinking you've probably only heard vague details bcus monstro is pretty hard to accurately describe lmao but I'll try!
warning to anyone who doesn't love spoilers as much as anon my response totally spoils the last like ~20 mins of the movie
so there's a ton of extra eyes & random body parts where they don't belong like an arm sticking out of her back & multiple breasts. the original elisabeth's face is sticking out of the back of one of her shoulders with the mouth permanently open making this kind of choking noise. there's a lot of extra bulky fleshy bits with these kind of dark veins everywhere. she has just a few sparse strands of hair that we see her attempt to curl while getting ready for the new years show, & no ears so she just jams the backs of some earrings into the flesh on the sides of her head during that same scene. there's some weird kind of placenta thing that drags on the ground behind her when she walks & also this weird.. mouth? orifice? on her head that gives birth to a boob on an umbilical cord while she's on stage which I thought was one of the best parts of any of the monstro scenes lmao like "you want tits right? here's some fucking tits for you" absolutely incredible. also theres a kind of transformation after someone bashes her head in only another more fucked up head to grow out, and after the massive bloodbath when her arm gets ripped off her body basically collapses into bits on the sidewalk & elisabeth's face on what used to be the shoulder is just on the back of this fleshy blob that crawls off like some kind of fucked up sea creature or something
throwing this into the tags so others can chime in bcus I know there's gotta be things I'm forgetting to mention
#i kinda mentioned this after my first watch but my second watch just solidified my opinion im def in the minority but i still am just not#sold on the monstro design. wish it resembled first & foremost an amalgamation of elisabeth & sue that was ALSO super fucked up but i feel#like its primarily just weird & fucked up and the blending together is really secondary in the design#but mostly i just didnt love the prosthetics esp when compared to all the other prosthetics in the film which were SO incredible?? like in#particular for the elisabeth ive seen coralie refer to as gollum. amazing makeup that felt SO real & alive whereas monstro to me had that#this looks like a prosthetic/sculpture more than something Alive look. like i dont HATE monstro i just had extremely probably unreasonably#high standards by the time we got to monstro's reveal bcus id gone in w high standards that had been nothing but exceeded up to that point#anyways!#the substance#anon#ask
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