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Originally Posted by Sculpt
That's true, so many older monsters weren't very convincing, that is where the director didn't get creative enough. Obviously not seeing the monster at all is sometimes the scariest and horrifying scenes there are.
Then I think of 'The Thing 82' where the practical effects are more effective and scarier than any modern CGI monster effects I've yet seen. There's still something about an actual physical presence, though on film, that is weighty and creepy; and CGI has yet to capture that well enough.
The great thing about modern CGI is the engrossing photorealistic background settings. The giant (background) mattes of the past were great, but modern CGI worlds have been increasingly more interactive with the characters.
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Yeah I agree and I think about the original Night of the Living Dead vs Dawn of the Dead.
NotLD was in black and white which really worked in the movie's favor. If it was in color I imagine the zombie make-up would have looked less realistic and it would have been laughable.
Even though Dawn of the Dead was a classic you have to admit that the zombie make-up looked unrealistic as fuck. They looked like a bunch of blue smurfs.
Then came Day of the Dead and you could tell Tom Savini put a lot of extra work into the zombie make-up. They looked realistically rotted with dirty tattered clothes and it was believable that the movie was set a few years after the zombies took over the world.
But now in the new zombie movies they seem to use CGI effects for zombies. I miss the old days when they used make-up. Some of the make-up effects looked really good like in Lucio Fulci's Zombie and there were a few slight flaws but that didn't stop me from getting immersed in those movies.
