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The Thing (1982)
#the thing#80s horror#horror movies#horroredit#horror gif#horror#horror film#tw body horror#tw horror#horrorfan#tw gif warning#practical effects#cw blood#tw blood#horror films
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New BTS video from the broadcast channel! Looks like we’ll be spending a lot of time in the upside down this season! 👀 I love how much they use practical effects on this show!
#stranger things#dailystrangerthings#tvstrangerthings#st5 spoilers#st5#st5 production#st5 bts#st5 filming#stranger things spoilers#upside down#practical effects
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ALIEN (1979)
#science fiction#horror#alien 1979#behind the scenes#production photos#70s#practical effects#model#lv 426#happy alien day 2024
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The cybot Godzilla skeleton in all her glory
#godzilla#cybot godzilla#the return of godzilla#godzilla 1985#scifi#science fiction#monster#kaiju#monsters#daikaiju#animatronic#practical effects#robot
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Third Dimensional Murder | 1941
a.k.a., Murder in 3-D
#George Sidney#Third Dimensional Murder#skeleton#skull#horror#Murder in 3-D#3D movie#halloween#practical effects#hammersmith horror#haunted house#horror movies
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Say what you will about Van Helsing 2004; hate it, love it, be indifferent, But the All-Hallow's masquerade ball went sooooo hard and it had zero right to do so! It's a fun, campy, monster mash movie with wonderfully dated ( and expensive) cgi and non-stop action meant to be a popcorn flick one takes out to watch around spooky season. And it has this* chef's kiss* GORGEOUS 6 minute sequence plopped arbitrarily in the second act, which unexpectedly surpasses nearly every other ball in the last 30+ years of film( notable exception being the Cinderella 2015 ball) for literally no reason other than to be dramatic af.
Like feast your eyes on this Gothic masterpiece!!! Who doesn't want to immediately live in this picture?!??
They used those candles with oil in them so that they would have real candles, real string orchestra( I believe), probably around 100 real life extras( something which is tragically absent in modern film), said extras are all in beautiful fully decked-out costumes( which are in luxuriously dark colours, but nearly no fully black, another thing you cannot say for much modern cinema), REAL CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PERFORMERS for all the acrobatics!!!! Hell, instead of filming in a sound stage, where they could control the reverb and the acoustics and the size of the set and the bloody lighting ( they apparently had a heck of a time emulating the firelight for this sequence) and the temperature( it's very cold in stone churches!) better, they filmed in a Baroque church in Prague! As I said, peak dramatic splendour, jfc...
Think about that a second...They filmed a vampire masquerade in a Baroque Catholic Church( St. Nicholas' in Lesser Town, if you were curious) with amazing over-the-top acoustics and marble statues and real, tiled floors and marble pillars and a choir loft which they very much utilized, covered the pipe organ and the altar with a grand brocade curtain so it wouldn't be so obviously a, you know, a church! And there's a gold gilt elevated and canopied pulpit into which they put two vampire kiddies for, again, the sake of being dramatic.
And the costumes! They remind me of the 25th anniversary Phantom of the Opera Masquerade costumes. Same quality, like they're old, well-cared-for costumes pulled out of a warehouse, instead of fast industry churn-outs. With lots of trim and colour and masks and lace and feathers and..just...ugh.. they are all perfect! Just look at all the head pieces on the ladies and the hats on all the gentleman ( save Dracula of course) and the powdered wigs on the musicians. ANNNNDD! The dresses are historically correct!!!!!! It's the 80's bustle era! Nobody does the 80's bustle era in film anymore and it's a bummer. Oh and one other thing! Anna's ( and other women's) hair, at least here in the ball, is also historically accurate because it's all pinned up! None of those fucken modern beachwaves at a ball! Everybody's got updo's!
Gah, I swear, Dracula in his gold cloak really does things to me in this scene!
By the way, the acrobatics are bonkers in here for just background stuff!! Especially the random guys on unicycles and the dude playing the violin whilst standing on a ball...Like....WHAT?
Anyways, all this to say, that this masquerade ball feels sooo real and tangible and because of that it blows every other film out of the water, and no, I will not change my mind!!!!!
Here's a few more gifs, bcuz, why the hell not, this scene is sexy as fuu*ck?
Alright I need to go to bed now.
#van helsing#van helsing 2004#dracula#count dracula#cinderella 2015#I'm on a film rant#masquerade ball#vampire#vampire masquerade ball#practical effects#costumes#gorgeous gorgeous set#baroque church#count vladislaus dracula#cirque du soleil#WHY IS THIS SOOO GOOD????????#princess anna valerious#kate beckinsale#richard roxburgh#phantom of the opera 25th#very phantom of the opera-esque
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you click on a video about the beverly hillbillies. 8 hours later you are listening to the same guy talk about star trek model ships. its the same video. he has told you he will start talking about the beverly hillbillies again around the 12hr mark. you scroll to 12hrs on the timeline and it doesn't even reach close to halfway. this man has left his son in an abandoned big k mart. you have begun to say "californie" unironically
#quinton reviews#what a ride this is#practical effects#how the beverly hillbillies changed tv#quinton reviews gothic#russ reviews
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Mothra (1961)
#mothra gif#kaiju movies#ishiro honda#toho studios#eiji tsuburaya#practical effects#miniature effects#giant monster movies#japanese sci-fi#60s sci-fi#60s movies#sixties#1961#gif#chronoscaph gif
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#PREY#video recorded on set#feral predator#dane diliegro#yautja#StudioADI#prey 2022#special effects#practical effects#predator
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Witte Wieven - Gelo Tree, digital concept art (photos 1-4) by Houston Sharp
+ On-set practical prop (photo 5), made by RFX Propmaking
#art#digital art#dark art#horror#gore#macabre#occult#concept art#practical effects#fx#sculpture#body horror
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In honor of the headcrab zombie coming out again today for NWICC (and taking zero photos), here’s some old pics from his past days out!
#my art#my cosplay#head crab#headcrab#half life#half life 2#special effects#spfx#spfx makeup#practical effects#headcrab zombie#cosplay#spfx artist#half life alyx
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Hi. Are you a fan of werewolves?
Lady werewolves?
Do you like horror that’s thrilling but not actually scary? Do you miss horror with creative practical effects, prosthetics & puppetry, instead of overly used CGI?
Do you like romance? Drama? Comedy? Do you enjoy stories that center found family? With the central theme of allowing yourself to take the risk of fully committing to loving and being loved, even when you’re terrified your own demons might hurt those closest to you?
Do you ever fantasize about a bearded, plus sized DILF who will comfort you, wash the blood out of your hair, and stand by your side no matter what? Even after you try to eat him?
THEN BOY, DO I HAVE THE SHOW FOR YOU!
Please stream Wolf Like Me on Peacock, literally nobody knows about this show and I WISH it had a fandom, it is SO good, so well acted and so well written, the soundtrack absolutely SMACKS, and I would die if it didn’t have enough viewership to continue. I am begging you to watch this beautiful show. I promise you won’t be disappointed.
#werewolves#werewolf#horror#wolf like me#tv#tv shows#monsters#monster fucker#monster fucking#practical effects#vfx#romance#josh gad#isla fisher
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I built a Cyberpunk City out of GARBAGE
(AKA: What you do when you’re stuck at home and bored to tears)
So, one of the wilder things I did during the pandemic was build my own cyberpunk city to use for a music video shoot.
The bones of the project just uses completely randomly pieces of cardboard and other crap from my garage, randomly glued together into shapes that looked vaguely building-like, and spray-painted gray and black to look somewhat on-purpose.
(Party cups and left over toilet paper tubes just add to the aesthetic)
The next thing I did was add dramatic uplighting, because let’s face it... everything looks cooler and bigger and more intense if it’s uplit. Chunks of leftover LED strips work really well, and it’s really easy to isolate just the blue circuits. It creates the illusion of scale which is important for any model to look large.
Of course, no city is complete without BLINKY LIGHTS (and I’m sure you noted already there’s some blinky action on top of the towers here) so I spent a bunch of time googling blinking light circuits and experimenting with them on a breadboard before ultimately extending the wires to glue them to the buildings themselves.
(I got a basic electronics kit on Amazon for most of the components)
Then, I put white LED strips inside of the bigger buildings (a little trickier to isolate the W circuits but not impossible!) and poked holes to simulate lit windows for ultimate sci-fi street cred.
At this stage, things were looking pretty legit.
The “final” touch was to create a virtual billboard to go in one of the sections. I had an old first gen ipod touch that I made a little slot for and cobbled together a video loop for. (Don’t worry it’s not permanently installed or anything -- it just slides in and out.)
... and of course what dystopian future is complete without flying cars...?
A little platform for a hotwheels car to go on (after it’s all painted green of course for the greenscreen.)
Insert some practical effects, some video-editing magic, and VOILA! ... it’s CYBERPUNK TIME BAYBEE.
I was inspired by a post on here from literally years ago about making a city out of garbage and LED’s and decided to take it to the next level. I’m sure at some point I could save myself the trouble by learning how to 3D model but this was so much more fun.
I probably spent too much time on this but if you’re in any way curious about what the final result turned out to be, the video I built all of this for premieres on October 15th.
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The Wasp Woman | 1995
#The Wasp Woman#practical effects#Jim Wynorski#Roger Corman#monster movie#horror comedy#horror#hammersmith horror#90s horror#femme fatale#monster suit#insect#checkerboard floor#vhs
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I love watching movies and TV where you can occasionally see things like the edges of latex prosthetics, or a little bit of hair under a wig, or some smudged effects makeup, or the hardware used to make a prop.
I'm thinking of things like the underside of the candy mushrooms in Willy Wonka. The way the safety padding bounces during the cliffside Princess Bride fight scene between Inigo and Wesley. The edges of the fake body used for Kevin Bacon in the first Friday the 13th movie. Things like that, where they don't really break the immersion, but show little ways that the effects are practical and had to be assembled.
(I even liked the Starbucks cup left in that one Game of Thrones shot, to be honest.)
It shows the humanity behind the artistry, and I honestly think it's endearing. Like typos in a published novel--nothing is perfect, and art is made by humans.
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"Fuck CGI all my homies hate CGI here we love practical effects" ok ok ok alright I know I KNOW that I'm being pedantic and nitpicky (which is why I'm making my own post and not adding this to one of those I've seen floating around) but you don't hate CGI you just hate capitalism
CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) is a very broad term, but in the context of films it is an 60 year old technique used in a variety of contexts for a variety of reasons. It is not only excessive green screens and bad mocap.
CGI is actually a central part of why practical effects look so much better now than they did in the 60s - I can guarantee that you have not seen one practical effect without the addition of CGI in a film after the 90s and maybe even earlier (excepting micro budget films, and even then). Every squib of fake blood that pops on under the actor's costume is cleaned up in post. And to be clear - this is a good thing! It looks better when it's well done!
What you hate is the overreliance on underpaid, overworked contract workers who are ground into the dirt by big studios with crunch times and wildly unreasonable expectations, that results in catastrophic looking messes. Yes, I also subscribe to "a bad practical effect is better than a bad CGI effect because at least it's there", but there are hundreds of people being exploited for their labor who are honest to god artists and dismissing their entire field is missing the point. A backlash against CGI as a concept could lead to a devaluation of the artists' work - less support from the public isn't exactly what they need. That's exactly what happened after Cats, when two of the actors dared mock the effects on stage during the Academy Awards while the companies which had been crushed by the film were going bankrupt - through no fault of their own.
Pitting those two disciplines against each other isn't only useless it's also just plain wrong - they have been working hand in hand for over 60 years. Know how to recognize the qualities and flaws of both and defend workers in all fields.
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