Michael Pare's transformation into a werewolf in Eric Red's Bad Moon (1996) is one aspect of the film that has not aged well. Prosthetic appliances were applied, designed similarly to tho werewolf transformation prosthetics Steve Johnson had previously designed for Evil Ed's death sequence in Fright Night.
Unfortunately, these makeups were blended together with digital morphing effects (in a similar manner to the equally poorly aged transformations in Sleepwalkers). Both Steve Johnson and Eric Red deeply regret this, with Red's directors cut even cutting out most of the transformation.
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.
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