#NowWatching Mike Nichols’ Wolf (1994). Legendary Rick Baker’s creature makeup effects is still phenomenal all these years later, and the Alec Gillis / Tom Woodruff Jr. wolf animatronics are next-level. Practical effects done right! #MakeupEffects #90smovie #NostalgiaOverload

🍕 On this day, May 16, 1980 — the slimy, sleazy, and straight-up savage Humanoids from the Deep slithered into US theaters and wrecked the beach party forever! 🐟🔪 A Roger Corman New World Pictures production (executive produced by the king of drive-in exploitation himself), directed by Barbara Peeters (credited as Barbara Peters), with a story by Frank Arnold and Martin B. Cohen, and screenplay by Frederick James. This one's a wild mix of eco-horror, creature-feature mayhem, and unapologetic '80s grindhouse energy. The Story: In a sleepy Pacific Northwest fishing town, a shady corporation (Canco) experiments with growth hormones on salmon to create bigger, faster fish. Big mistake. The mutated fish interbreed with humans (thanks to some mad science gone wrong), spawning a race of aggressive, moss-covered, half-man/half-fish humanoids that rise from the depths. These gnarly beasts don't just want dinner — they slaughter the men and aggressively "mate" with the women in a bid to propagate their species. Chaos erupts at the annual salmon festival as the town fights for survival! The Cast: - Doug McClure as Jim Hill — the heroic fisherman leading the charge. - Ann Turkel as Dr. Susan Drake — the scientist trying to make sense of the mutations. - Vic Morrow as Hank Slattery — the rough, bigoted town heavy who adds extra tension. Solid character actors round out the ensemble, giving it that classic drive-in vibe. Music & FX: The score comes from a young James Horner (yep, the future Oscar-winner behind Titanic, Avatar, and Braveheart — this was only his second feature score!). It delivers tense, atmospheric horror stings that still hit hard. But the real stars? The gnarly practical monster FX by legends Rob Bottin (who also suited up as one of the humanoids — he went on to do The Thing, RoboCop, Total Recall) and Steve Johnson. Steve Johnson (born 1960) was a rising star in practical effects even back then. This was one of his very early gigs, right at the start of an incredible career that would later include Ghostbusters (Onionhead/Slimer!), The Abyss, Species, Blade II, Fright Night, and founding his own company XFX / Edge FX. He assisted on the makeup and creature effects for Humanoids and — just like Rob Bottin — actually climbed into the suits and played the Humanoids on screen. These two young FX wizards brought the monsters to vicious, dripping life with their own bodies, giving the creatures that raw, unpredictable energy you only get when the creators are in the suits. The slimy, scaly, brain-exposed beasts look disgustingly real — dripping with seaweed, teeth gnashing, claws slashing. The gore kills are brutal and plentiful: faces ripped off, bodies mauled and dismembered, bloody beach massacres, and a chaotic town-festival climax packed with decapitations, stabbings, and humanoid rampages. Pure practical-effects glory from the golden era of creature carnage! Humanoids from the Deep is sleazy, bloody, fun as hell, and a perfect slice of retro exploitation pizza — extra cheese, heavy on the tentacles. If you love your horror with a side of '80s practical FX mayhem (and the legends who built those monsters with their own hands), this one's a deep-sea must-watch. Hell yeah, Cap'n Retrovania approves! Who's throwing this on for a Saturday night retro screamfest? Drop your favorite Corman creature feature (or practical FX legend) below! 🎃🍕🔥 "They're not human... but they hunt human women. Not for killing. For mating." What a tagline. Classic. #HumaniodsFromTheDeep #80sHorror #RogerCorman #RetroHorror #80sKidsRule #MakeUpEffects

🌹 Cemetery Man (1994) aka Dellamorte Dellamore – Dropped in the US on this day back in the '90s and still one of the most gloriously weird slices of Italian horror-comedy out there. If you're a '90s latchkey kid who stayed up way too late flipping through late-night cable for that perfect mix of gore, black humor, philosophy, and straight-up surreal vibes, this one's a must-dig. Directed by Michele Soavi (the guy who brought us stuff like The Church and The Sect), it's based on the novel by Tiziano Sclavi — yeah, the Dylan Dog comics creator. Rupert Everett even gets styled like a live-action Dylan Dog nod. Perfect. The Cast: - Rupert Everett as Francesco Dellamorte — the suave, world-weary cemetery caretaker who's equal parts bored philosopher and reluctant zombie exterminator. - François Hadji-Lazaro as Gnaghi — his imbecilic, mostly mute assistant who only says "Gna!" and steals every scene he's in (especially with that head romance subplot). - Anna Falchi as "She" — the stunning widow (and her multiple identical lookalikes) who drives Francesco's romantic obsessions into total chaos. - Solid support from Mickey Knox, Fabiana Formica (as the mayor's daughter Valentina), Stefano Masciarelli, and even Derek Jacobi voicing Death himself. The Story: Francesco Dellamorte runs the cemetery in the sleepy (but cursed) Italian town of Buffalora. His gig? Bury the dead... and then shoot the "Returners" when they claw out of their graves about seven days later, hungry for flesh. He handles it with shotgun blasts to the head while crossing names out of old phone books and pondering the meaning of it all with his skull-shaped puzzle. Life gets complicated when he falls hard for a beautiful young widow at a funeral. Their graveyard hookup turns nightmarish when her dead husband rises and bites her. One tragic shooting later, and Francesco's spiraling — questioning if he murdered the love of his life or just did his job. Gnaghi gets his own bizarre romance with a decapitated head. More women who look exactly like "She" show up, reality starts cracking, Death pays a visit with some advice ("Stop killing the dead"), and things escalate into a killing spree, arson, and one mind-bending finale that leaves you wondering what's even real. It's zombie flick meets existential black comedy meets erotic nightmare. Surreal, horny, depressing, hilarious, and strangely beautiful all at once. Makeup & Gore Effects: The practical effects are chef's kiss — handled by legends like Sergio Stivaletti (with contributions in the vein of Giannetto De Rossi-style work). Expect nasty, rotting Returners with dripping makeup, brutal bullet-to-the-head sprays, shovel-smash carnage, bite wounds that look painfully real, and that unforgettable decapitated head romance. The gore is plentiful but artistic, blending gross-out zombie action with gothic atmosphere in a real Italian cemetery location. It holds up amazingly well today. If you love your '90s horror with brains (and brains being eaten), pitch-black laughs, and zero interest in playing it safe, hunt this one down. Severin Films did a killer 4K release recently too. What's your favorite weird '90s Euro-horror gem? Drop it below — Leftover Pizza Power Kids Club approves this transmission. 🍕🪦🧟‍♂️ "Gna." — Gnaghi #CemeteryMan #DellamorteDellamore #90sHorror #RetroHorror #90sKidsRule #ItalianHorror #HorrorFam #MakeUpEffects

🍕 On this day back in 2002, Jason X slashed its way into theaters and straight into the halls of glorious early-2000s horror cheese! Picture it, gang: It’s a Friday night, the Blockbuster lights are buzzing, you’ve got a two-liter of Mountain Dew Code Red chilling in the fridge, and you’re grabbing that shiny new DVD case with the glowing “X” on the cover. No more sleepy Crystal Lake summers — this time, they shot the big guy into SPACE, baby! Directed by James Isaac (a make-up effects legend who worked with Cronenberg on stuff like Naked Lunch and eXistenZ), this flick was the ultimate “keep the franchise on life support” move while everyone waited for Freddy vs. Jason. And man, did it deliver the goods. The plot? In the year 2455, a group of futuristic college kids on a field trip to a ruined Earth stumble across a cryogenically frozen Jason Voorhees (still rocking that hockey mask after centuries) and a researcher named Rowan. They haul him back to their sleek spaceship like the ultimate bad idea. Thaw him out? Big mistake. Jason wakes up meaner than ever and starts turning the crew into red confetti across the stars. The tone is pure X-treme camp — think Jason Lives energy cranked to 11 with sci-fi neon, zero-gravity blood droplets, and enough one-liners to make you choke on your pizza rolls. It even has a holodeck sequence where the crew programs a fake Crystal Lake summer camp. Pure nostalgic fan service! And get this — horror royalty David Cronenberg himself shows up as Dr. Aloysius Wimmer! The man who gave us The Fly and Videodrome pops in for a scene, even rewrote his own dialogue because that’s how Cronenberg rolls. The practical makeup effects and kills? Chef’s kiss. Kane Hodder’s final ride as Jason is brutal and creative: heads get frozen solid in liquid nitrogen and smashed like glass, backs get snapped like glow sticks, bodies get cut in half and keep crawling, and don’t even get me started on the sleeping bag scene that had theaters losing it. Then comes the grand finale — Jason gets rebuilt into Uber Jason, that chrome-domed cyborg nightmare with glowing red eyes and a machete that means business. It’s gloriously rad. Exactly the kind of late-night VHS rental you’d watch with the Leftover Pizza Power Kids Club, yelling at the screen while the CRT glow lit up the basement. So crank up that industrial soundtrack, grab a slice, and raise a Slice soda to Jason in space. Because sometimes the best horror isn’t scary… it’s just stupid fun that makes you grin like a maniac under the glow of the stars. Ch-ch-ch… ah-ah-ah… in zero gravity. What’s your favorite Jason X kill or moment, crew? Drop it below! 💀🔪🍕 #JasonX #Fridaythe13th #RetroHorror #JasonVoorhees #2000Horror #HorrorFam #MakeUpEffects

Since today marks the anniversary of Neil Jordan’s The Company of Wolves, here’s some rad behind-the-scenes photos featuring the gnarly practical makeup effects and werewolf puppet transformations. Designed by Christopher Tucker (the genius behind the iconic work on The Elephant Man), these creatures still look insanely good today. Pure 80s practical effects magic! 🐺🍕🎬 #ACompanyofWolves #80sHorror #RetroHorror #PracticalEffects #MakeupEffects #80sKidsRule

This front cover of Fangoria #96 (September 1990) is still straight-up bitchin' after all these years. 🔥💀 That gnarly close-up belongs to Liam Neeson as the tortured, skin-shedding Darkman, with the killer makeup effects work from Tony Gardner (of Alterian) turning him into a bandaged, vengeful pulp-hero nightmare. Sam Raimi’s wild revenge flick never looked better on newsstands. Inside, you’ve got the gloriously bizarre monster movie The Boneyard (complete with Phyllis Diller hamming it up and those freaky mutant poodles), the gritty slasher sequel Maniac Cop 2, plus early buzz on Night of the Living Dead '90, Flatliners, and more. Pure 1990 practical-effects heaven. Smells like ozone, rubber latex, and leftover pizza in the basement. 🍕🩸 Who still has this issue buried in the collection? Drop your favorite Fangoria memory from the early '90s below! 👇#90sHorror #Fangoria #Darkman #MakeupEffects #90sKidsRule #HorrorFam

All Hallows' Eve creeps closer! #NowWatching Vamp (1986): Fraternity pledges Chris Makepeace and Robert Rusler are ordered to snag a stripper for the party, so they roll up to the After Dark Club—a pure '80s neon nightmare pulsing with electric pinks, toxic greens, and ultraviolet haze. There they meet the unforgettable vampire queen Katrina, played by the ferocious Grace Jones, whose razor-sharp presence. With killer makeup effects (crafted by legend Greg Cannom of The Lost Boys fame) turn the night into a blood-soaked fever dream. 🧛‍♀️💀🕸️🎃 #Vamp #80sHorror #RetroHorror #MakeupEffects #HorrorFam #ItsAlmostHalloween

#Makeupeffects my daughter did on her face 9 years ago

Yo, Retrovanianites! 🎮 Let’s rewind to the arcade-punching glory of the Mortal Kombat movie (1995)! The badass FX crew at @thestudioADI pulled out all the stops to bring Goro, the four-armed half-human, half-dragon warlord, to life. 🌋 Academy Award-winning suit performer Tom Woodruff (you know, the guy who crushed it in (The Monster Squad as The Gillman and Pumpkinhead) manned the lower half of Goro’s beefy frame. Meanwhile, six puppeteers worked a high-tech telemetry rig—a slick device that let Goro’s upper arms flex and swing in sync with their moves like a boss. It took a crew of ten—puppeteers and techs—to deliver that flawless fatality on the big screen! 🎥💥 This kinda retro wizardry is why we’re still obsessed with '90s flicks. So, let’s hear it: what’s your fave retro movie monster or epic special effect from the VHS era? Drop it below, and let’s vibe like it’s a Saturday night at the video rental store! 🍕📼 #MortalKombat #90sNostalgia #RetroGaming #FinishHim #MakeupEffects

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On June 1, 1990, Frank Henenlotter's wild horror-comedy Frankenhooker, starring Patty Mullen, hit theaters with its gloriously bonkers early '90s make-up effects. 🎬💀 #RetroHorror #Frankenhooker #90sHorror #MakeupEffects

Behind the scenes with the maestro of makeup gore FX, Tom Savini from The Burning (1981). 🎬🪓💀🔥 #TomSavini #80sHorror #TheBurning #MakeupEffects

Makeup FX legend Bob Keen's bitchin' werewolf from Anthony Hickox's Waxwork (1988). Lead artist was Steve Hardie. 🎬💀 #MakeupEffects #ImageAnimation #BehindTheScenes #80shorror

37 years ago today March 30th 1988, Tim Burton's supernatural comedy masterpiece #Beetlejuice was released in theaters. 🎬💀 #80skids #80shorror #nostalgia #TimBurton #makeupeffects

🧞‍♀️ Reel Intelligence Brief 🧞‍♀️: The Master of Make-Up: Tom Savini's Documentary reelintelligencenews.blogspo… #Fangoria #TomSavini #ScreamGreats #HorrorFilm #PracticalEffects #MakeUpEffects #HorrorLegends #Documentary #FilmHistory #Cyberbeatnik

THE THING EXPANDED assimilates another cast member! Join us in welcoming the wonderful Ken Diaz, who worked on the '82 film as Special Makeup Effects Coordinator under Rob Bottin, to the documentary! Ken's impressive film career encompasses a ton of iconic projects — from John Carpenter's The Thing to Ryan Coogler's Black Panther. "A lot of times when you have [modern] visual effects, you'll see stuff that is stretching and moving around where, anatomically, you know it would never move that way. The stuff that we did with on-camera makeup effects looks anatomically correct. It's something that looks more believable ... This is something that the actors could see and relate to. It's not just a tennis ball that they're looking at." #TheThing #KenDiaz #RobBottin #JohnCarpenter #PracticalEffects #Horror #ScienceFiction #80sHorror #CultClassics #MakeupEffects

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Nov. 25- Robert Kurtzman is born in Crestline, Ohio in 1964. The special make-up effects artist is co-founder of K.N.B. EFX Group with Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger. The Oscar- and Emmy-winning company has provided make-up effects for more than 400 movies including Predator, Scream, Army of Darkness, Dances With Wolves, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. He left the company in 2002 and started Precinct 13 Entertainment. #Halloween #halloween #halloween2024 #makeupeffects #movies #movies #wishmaster

#outofkit impromptu makeup effects for #mercy the movie. Done with telusis adhesive and flocking. #makeupeffects #telusis

Prosthetic Makeup I did for the legendary actor #Jonvoight @jonvoight for the movie "the painter " #Makeup #makeupeffects #yvr