Iván Pohárnok, the prosthetic makeup designer shows his abilities throughout the 12 graphic deaths in the film. Members of the commune approach a gravely injured man and “assist him” by crushing his skull with a large wooden mallet. As we see, if they do not die upon impact the other members will have to take matters into their own hands. The practical effects come into play when the group of outsiders witnesses a ceremony known as the “ Ättestupa.” During this ceremony, two elderly members of the commune willingly jump off a cliff and fall to their death. She is inadvertently invited to join him and his friends on a trip to Sweden on a cultural anthropology study of the celebration known as the Hårga, which only happens every 90 years. She is left with no one except for her boyfriend, Christian ( Jack Reynor), who was planning on breaking up with her just before the devastating incident. In the opening scenes, Dani ( Florence Pugh) is traumatized from the suicide of her younger sister, which also resulted in the deaths of their parents. Bone Tomahawk (2015)Īri Aster shocked audiences in 2018 with his feature directorial debut, Hereditary and followed up with his solid delivery of Scandinavian folk-horror film, Midsommar in 2019.
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He took this time to learn how to speak Spanish, so that he could recite his own lines instead of just repeating the phonetic pronunciations. In addition to playing the Faun, he also portrayed the terrifying “pale man,” a creature with an insatiable appetite for children. He gives her a set of tasks to complete, to prove that she is in fact Princess Moanna, before she can return to her kingdom.ĭoug Jones, who also portrayed major characters in Del Toro’s The Shape of Water and Hellboy, spent five hours a day getting makeup and prosthetics applied for his elaborate Faun costume.
She is convinced that there is still magic in the world so when she is approached by a Faun ( Doug Jones) and told that she is actually a princess of the Underworld who was lost when she ventured too far into the human realm, she fully believes him. Set in 1944 Spain, the movie is a fantasy thriller following Ophelia ( Ivana Baquero), a young girl forced to move onto a military compound because of her mother’s relationship with the ruthless Captain Vidal. Related: Scare Tactics: 7 Female Horror Composers and Their Spookiest Soundtracks Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)Īny Guillermo Del Toro film would be more than welcome on this list, but Pan’s Labyrinth deserves recognition for its stunning make-up and visual effects.
The original movie from 1981 (which only used 300-500 gallons of fake blood) is renowned for its use of practical effects, and the production crew wanted to keep that edge. Evil Dead apparently used 70,000 gallons of fake blood throughout the movie, 50,000 of which went to the end scene. After this, Mia is possessed by a demonic entity, but her friends write off her increasingly erratic behavior as withdrawal symptoms.Īccording to director Fede Alvarez, no CGI was used in this movie, which is incredible considering some of the more intense and graphic images, such as the scene where Mia slices her tongue with a razor. They find a leather book in the cellar and of course, read from it (“ Kunda…”) which ends up summoning the Evil Dead. A group of young adults meet up at a remote cabin in the middle of the woods as an intervention with the intent to help Mia ( Jane Levy) through a hard and much-needed detox.
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