By Gore Lord
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"Dog Soldiers" with the tagline "Six soldiers. Full moon. No chance. Won the 2002 Saturn Award for "Best DVD Release". Terrific makeup special effects work by Dave Bonneywell.
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A blast from the past! How about little Eddie Munster! A true television classic, the "Munsters" is always worth watching and re-watching! Perc Westmore did makeup for the movie "Munster, Go Home!" (1966)
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"Werewolf Woman of the SS" is a fake movie trailer shot by Rob Zombie for Quinten Tatantino and Robert Rodriguez's movie "Grindhouse"
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"The Howling" was a 1977 novel by Gary Brandner. In 1981, Rob Bottin's masterfull makeup work was featured in the film version.
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Rick Baker did the remarkable makeups for Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video. Most notably, Michael had to wear those FX sclera contact lens which cover the entire
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Rankin and Bass the team who brought us "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" didn't leave out Halloween!! "Mad Monster Party" (1969) had them all! Dracula, Baron von Frankenstein (ala Boris Karloff's voice), Wolfman, and of course Phyllis Diller (as The Monster's wife) to name a few!!
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Matthew Mungle created the FX makeup for these creatures in Stephen King's "Silver Bullet" 1985
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Who could forget Michael Landon's teen angst performance in "I was a Teenage Werewolf" (1957) With the tagline :"The most amazing motion picture of our time!" Phillip Scheer created Landon's teen wolf.
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"Underworld Evolution" (2006) features Patrick Tatopoulos' creature designs -- very cool werewolves indeed!
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The original Universal Studios "Wolfman"(1941), staring Lon Chaney Jr. and featuring the makeup artistry of legend Jack Pierce. The makeup was made of Yak hair!
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Rick Baker was fx makeup artist on the 1994 film Wolf and Gino Acevedo worked on the animatronic wolf effects crew!
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The Gore Lord is a contributing author for Goremaster.com a makeup special effects resource for fans and makeup artist alike. |