Best EFX in horror...
 

As a student of make-up effects I just have to ask what movies everyone feels have the best effects. im gunna break it down into 3 catagories: Creature, Gore and Character. Granted this is a kinda hard question to answer, seeing that there are a million movies to choose from but i just went with what came to mind

Creature- Hmm Aliens, Predator, and the Relic
Gore- Day of the Dead- gotta love that Rhoads scene
Character- probaly this new movie Monster. charlize therons transformation was insane.

i thought that blade 2 was nicely done

Anything Savini ever did is worth taking a look at. Giannetto De Rossi is great too. Check out Screaming Mad George, Greg Cannom, KNB, Rob Bottin as well.

Re: Best EFX in horror...
 

Just had to go and make me do it, didn'tcha...:D

yeah those KNB guys dont fuck around. although i just read an article somwhere saying that Berger (i think it was him) is leaving the make-up scene in order to produce and possibly direct.

Yeah. I read the plot of his upcoming movie and remembering it being cool. KNB will still kick-ass though. Did you see Kill-Bill?

yeah i saw it. it was ok. lets just say i didnt agree the the stylistic choice of making the crazy 88 scene black and white. a fine waste a kyro syrup if you ask me.

Well, that was to trick the ratings board I believe. But KNB was supplying that syrup and I thought they did a fantastic job.

How about the grossest--the rotting cadaver in one of the Nekromantic movies (I believe 2); thanks to time-elapse photography, it literally rotted to the bone right before your eyes--complete with maggots.

May sound weird but I thought that the scene where the guy thinks his face was peeling apart was a pretty good efect for The Poltergeist's time

It didn't look so good the last time I saw it. But for its time it was impressive.

Rick Baker has done a lot of amazing stuff, but what about those gaping wounds on the walking dead in Amer Were? Savini's top-cho zom in Dawn was clever. jack Pierce did some amazing jobs with only make-up and yak hair back in the early days.

Or the best special effect of all, the one in your mind---when Eastwood says in Unforgiven, "I saw Claudia last night, and she had worms in her eyes."

I think the witch from Darkness Falls was good special effects. Her face could have been better, but oh well. It was simple and looked good - that's all there is to it.

There was potential to be a great movie also, but that's a different forum.

Did you see Steve Wang's original design for the Tooth Fairy? It was the one that Mcfarlane Toys made.

Creature~Aliens obviously and for some reason I really like the creeper in the second Jeepers Creepers.

Gore~On the realism scale I would definetly say Day of the Dead, so many moments in that movie made me cringe. On overall gore though I definetly have to say Dead-Alive, the most entertaining gore in any movie but loses some points because not all of it was well done.

Character~ Jack's transformation from the first half of the film to the second was great. I must add my opinion that this was probably the best performance in any horror movie. (after reading the above topics again I realize the mistake I've made....this transformation has nothing to do with special effects but I'll leave it here anyway :).)

Now that would be cool if they used McFarlens original Tooth Fairy

Damn, this is such a tough subject to tackle....I'm gonna have to think about this...

Ok, this is what originally popped into my head as far as makeup effects, but I had to research it a little.....

Steve Johnson's work on Melinda Clark in Return of the Living Dead 3 always impressed me...Like the glass in the face and when she twists the spring through her skin and the numerous other acts of self-mutilation....Just awesome looking

I think the special effects in "Day Of The Dead" were excellent for that time period...It was a hell of a lot better than CGI

how about the make up in 'from hell'

i had to watch that stupid thing twice.... still was disturbing though.... probably because it really happened! (the real pics r NASTTTTYYY)