#film prosthetics

[stelly38]

The transformation in the top pair of photos is nothing like the transformation in the bottom pair. I know there are a few folks who can't get past the ridiculous bristles under Declan's nose. I know big pornstaches aren't for everyone, but I've come around on this one. I wish. (Pun intended.) When I first saw the press photos of him with the 'stache, I thought it was funny. I still think it's pretty silly, but honestly, the more you look at it...

Oh shit, am I going to develop crushes on old photos of Barney Miller and Alex Trebek?! Nah, probably not. But I think of the 'stache here as icing on the cake; decoration on the tree.

Whereas, when they transformed Ralph Fiennes into a burn victim for the English Patient, now that was a travesty. Yeah, yeah, plot and everything, blah blah blah. But he had the prosthetics on for a considerable chunk of the movie. And it looked nothing like him. I will never understand why producers cast men as beautiful as nineties-era Ralph in roles where he's going to be covered up.

As Declan, Aidan still looks like Aidan, even with the silly mustache. It would take something like English Patient-levels of makeup and prosthetics to really disappoint me.

That is all.

[monstersonscreen]

Behind the scenes images of Stephen Geoffreys having prosthetics applied to him as his turn as the unlucky Evil Ed in Fright Night (1985)

Steve Johnson wished Evil Ed's transformation to be lumpy and 'asymmetrical' in contrast to the transformations in American Werewolf in London and The Howling. Geoffreys would spend 18 hours in the makeup chair as prosthetics were applied to his whole body. He had to take sleeping pills to pass out the time away!

For filming the transformation, Geoffreys would have to sit with his back against the set wall, which had a hole for a puppeteer to operate the rod-puppet wolf arm, as well as holes in the set's floor for another puppeteer to operate the rod-puppet wolf legs. Geoffreys would wear a neck appliance with the wolf head as a 'hat'; he could see out from holes in the neck, and the head was fitted with cable-operated animatronics allowing it to blink and grimace.

[wuntrum]

honestly sooo crazy to me that people will make sex-focused movies (especially the nc-17 ones) and yet we don't get to see penis? at all? not even a little bit? need equality in my movie nudity...cmon now...

[stevebuscemieyes]

The legendary Kane Hodder and his transformation over the years into Jason Vorhees

[a-random-fandom-friend]

My hot take about the movie is that it actually did bad things for the lore. As is, it didnt expand the universe, and in fact walked back on cool societal changes that happened on the end of the book.

[demi-pixellated]

//OC road work ahead

[phoenixlionme]

[imperfectcourt]

Matt and Neil being the celebrity hosts of Shark Week and Andrew one of the scientists they end up working with a lot

[youngmonsters]

The 'Destroy all Neighbors' trailer is coming soon!

Stay tuned...

[sydmarch]

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

[estellaestella]

The only bright spot in MAESTRO is Carrey Mulligan. Cooper's LB is all surface, no substance. Matt Bomer does more in his 5 minutes of screentime than Cooper does in the whole movie.

The movie covers smth like 50 years of Leonard Bernstein's life and even though it namechecks a lot of his achievements, i didnt get a sense of the person at all. Its more infodump than entertainment. There's some lovely camerawork in the b/w part of the movie (first 30 minutes?) but that's about it. Kinda sad that Bradley Cooper cdnt deliver another beautiful musical film like A STAR IS BORN. His instincts were so much better there. This felt like a mess. A powerpoint presentation of a movie.

[monstersonscreen]

Some of the prosthetic makeup sculpts devised by Richard Edlund's Boss Film Studios for Stephen Geoffreys, Amanda Bearse and Chris Sarandon in Fright Night (1985).

Effects artist Steve Johnson wished for the prosthetic makeup on Goeffreys as Evil Ed to be 'a little Quasimodo', uneven and lumpy. Johnson had always been bugged by how 'symmetrical' the American Werewolf in London and Howling transformations were, and wanted to do his own spin.

Chris Sarandon had three stages of makeup applied to him to represent his monstrous states; Steve Neill was assigned to do the makeup, but was persuaded by an eager Randall William Cook into letting him do the final (and most monstrous) makeup stage.

Amanda Bearse's 'shark mouth' mask was a last minute job requested by Tom Holland; Randy Cook sculpted a simple latex mask for Bearse to wear, believing that it would only be used for one brief shot. He was embarrassed when it turned out it didn't just get used for several shots, but became the most iconic image of the film!

[wuntrum]

Ppl being so surprised that was actually Barry Keoghans penis in the Saltburn end scene really speaks to the lack of male nudity in movies as opposed to how much female nudity there is

yeah, the double standard is really evident (but unfortunately, not surprising). i have a fair few problems with saltburn on a storytelling/execution level, but i Do respect it for going there...

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

just learned that people are like legitimately pissed that mackenyu buffed up for season 2 ???

[stevebuscemieyes]

Happy Birthday to the legendary Tom Savini

November 3rd 1946🎉

[hotvintagepoll]

everyone vote harold lloyd he was an amputee and had the first instance of flipping the bird in film EVER. also he looks suspiciously like pointcrow.

Carman Newsome vs Harold Lloyd