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Horror movie fans are taking to social media to share the behind-the-scene details of their favorite thrillers and chillers. From Sissy Spacek spending days in a blood-soaked prom dress to the secret behind Pennywise's distrubing smile, here are a few makeup secrets shared by film fans.
In Se7en [1996], Fincher never told John C. McGinley that the corpse used for Sloth was actually a living actor in heavy makeup. McGinley's character's initial shock when Sloth wakes in the movie was, in fact, McGinley's genuine surprise from the first take.
According to actor Michael Reid MacKay, the makeup was a process:
It started with airbrushing tiny little veins on my body, and then there was a step where they did some more painting, and then they put the gelatin sores all over me...
In Interview with [the] Vampire (1994), makeup artist Michèle Burke made the vampires’ skin look translucent by hanging the actors upside down like bats for up to 30 minutes at a time - they’d trace the bulging veins.
This was repeated often, as blood quickly drained from their heads.
Bette Davis did her own makeup in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, as she didn't trust makeup artists to give her the unhinged look needed for the role.
What I had in mind no professional makeup man would have dared to put on me. One told me he was afraid that if he did what I wanted, he might never work again.
Pennywise is [seen] drooling many times throughout the movie. This was not an effect. Bill Skarsgård had to have prosthetic teeth in that made him drool excessively in many scenes.
IT (2017)- Pennywise is seeing drooling many times throughout the movie. This was not an effect. Bill Skarsgård had to have prosthetic teeth in that made him drool excessively in many scenes.#movie#hollywood#cinema
In the dream sequence at the start of A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, the bus driver, who later turns out to be Freddy in disguise, is actually Freddy without his disguise: [He's] played by Robert Englund out of his Freddy makeup.