what you see is never what you get
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
practical special effects from movies
screen for this list we’ve chosen films
that used little to no CGI and have
instead decided to use on-camera magic
in the form of prosthetics animatronics
puppets or anything else they can think
of we’ve ranked them based on their
impact and how well the effects stand up
over time number 10 The Matrix Reloaded
CGT I helped bring their simulated
reality to life but the Wachowski
brothers know sometimes computers can’t
cut it
coordinated with help from David our
Ellis the famous freeway car chase was
shot almost entirely using practical
effects trickery
agents trailing Morpheus and Trinity
jump onto cars imploding some and
sending others flying but the mayhem was
actually the work of hidden ramps and
cannons with the actor added
post-production
number nine scanners in an epic battle
of brainwaves
somebody’s heads gonna explode David
Cronenberg sci-fi horror flick features
an iconic scene created by the Godfather
of makeup special effects artist dick
Smith Smith took foam dog food and
rabbit organs stuffed them in a latex
head and fired at it with a shotgun to
produce one heck of a head rush the
movie itself may be average but this
image will stick with us forever number
8 a family of three plot join together
in one body more human than I am alone
poor Brundle
oscar-winning makeup artist Chris
Wallace spent months planning Jeff
Goldblum’s disturbing transformation
into brundlefly and the result is both
disgusting and mesmerizing seven stages
of makeup and prosthetics were created
with no body part left untouched
Goldblum even wore contacts to make his
eyes different sizes when Brundle
finally sheds his last pieces of
humanity it’s the crowning achievement
in a film filled with sick effects
number seven alien with never ending
oscar-winning effects it’s tough to pick
a favorite is it the alien suit made of
plasticine snakes pines and rolls-royce
parts or the sheep intestine facehugger
no we choose the chestburster where a
puppet is shoved through a fake torso
spurting real cows blood and guts into
the faces of unsuspecting actors fYI no
job hurts were injured during production
number six the Lord of the Rings trilogy
the goal of most movie effects is to get
noticed in a big way but the geniuses
behind Lord of the Rings probably hoped
you never gave there’s a second thought
though when a workshop did use some CGI
to fudge Frodo and Gandalf slight
differences but only halfway through the
scene that I realized that all our
trickery had worked they also employed
forced perspective and multiple
different scaled sets which they labeled
big atures to bring the hobbits dwarves
and other characters from Tolkien’s mind
to life you shall be the Fellowship of
the Ring
where do we go what gives you the right
what’s the difference between you and me
I’m not wearing hockey pants number five
the Dark Knight trilogy and inception
director Christopher Nolan has helmed
many effects-heavy franchises but this
filmmaker prefers to minimize CGI’s
importance instead opting for good
old-fashioned practical effects
he used miniatures for some Batman
Begins locales but not everyone would
flip an 18-wheeler with an air piston
drop an airplane to earth from another
airplane or use air cannons to blow up a
Paris street scene as for the hallway
fight well it wasn’t just our head
spinning
number four jaws
made by humans to scare humans jaws is
terrifying given the right light and
music
Art Director Joe Elvis’s forty person
team created three pneumatic prop sharks
for jobs which crewmembers nicknamed
Bruce after Steven Spielberg’s lawyer
but it was Spielberg’s insistence that
the Sharks be shot at sea instead of in
a prop tank that helped carry the film
well past its budget but we think it was
worth it
number three an American Werewolf in
London
a decaying buddy is bad enough
especially one who looks like a walking
meatloaf we can also thank makeup legend
Rick Baker prosthetics and some robotic
body parts for this incredible sequence
we’re bakers and director John Landis is
vision of a werewolf transformation
comes to life even though the flick is
decades-old we’re still as viscerally
moved today as the first time we saw the
oscar-winning horror comedy number two
Jurassic Park it’s no wonder this
Spielberg flick nabbed the Oscar for
Best Visual Effects years later it still
makes us hold on to our books sure the
Dino flick uses plenty of CGI that would
be at home in today’s blockbusters but
production also included a 20 foot tall
almost living and breathing animatronic
t-rex
as well as impressive rubber suits
that’s right our beloved heroes are
terrorized through Jurassic Park by guys
dressed up as velociraptors
number one the thing here’s proof that
practical effects do the job right after
working with director John Carpenter on
the fog
Rob poutine was tapped for the makeup
and puppetry of the thing and he uses
tummy teeth amputated limbs severed
heads spidery whatever’s and more to
keep our jaws firmly drop
as one of the older entries on our list
this practical effects masterpiece
definitely inspired many and scared the
bejesus out of all do you agree with our
list which are the practical special
effects that blew you out of the water
the more top tens about your favorite
flicks be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
practical special effects from movies
screen for this list we’ve chosen films
that used little to no CGI and have
instead decided to use on-camera magic
in the form of prosthetics animatronics
puppets or anything else they can think
of we’ve ranked them based on their
impact and how well the effects stand up
over time number 10 The Matrix Reloaded
CGT I helped bring their simulated
reality to life but the Wachowski
brothers know sometimes computers can’t
cut it
coordinated with help from David our
Ellis the famous freeway car chase was
shot almost entirely using practical
effects trickery
agents trailing Morpheus and Trinity
jump onto cars imploding some and
sending others flying but the mayhem was
actually the work of hidden ramps and
cannons with the actor added
post-production
number nine scanners in an epic battle
of brainwaves
somebody’s heads gonna explode David
Cronenberg sci-fi horror flick features
an iconic scene created by the Godfather
of makeup special effects artist dick
Smith Smith took foam dog food and
rabbit organs stuffed them in a latex
head and fired at it with a shotgun to
produce one heck of a head rush the
movie itself may be average but this
image will stick with us forever number
8 a family of three plot join together
in one body more human than I am alone
poor Brundle
oscar-winning makeup artist Chris
Wallace spent months planning Jeff
Goldblum’s disturbing transformation
into brundlefly and the result is both
disgusting and mesmerizing seven stages
of makeup and prosthetics were created
with no body part left untouched
Goldblum even wore contacts to make his
eyes different sizes when Brundle
finally sheds his last pieces of
humanity it’s the crowning achievement
in a film filled with sick effects
number seven alien with never ending
oscar-winning effects it’s tough to pick
a favorite is it the alien suit made of
plasticine snakes pines and rolls-royce
parts or the sheep intestine facehugger
no we choose the chestburster where a
puppet is shoved through a fake torso
spurting real cows blood and guts into
the faces of unsuspecting actors fYI no
job hurts were injured during production
number six the Lord of the Rings trilogy
the goal of most movie effects is to get
noticed in a big way but the geniuses
behind Lord of the Rings probably hoped
you never gave there’s a second thought
though when a workshop did use some CGI
to fudge Frodo and Gandalf slight
differences but only halfway through the
scene that I realized that all our
trickery had worked they also employed
forced perspective and multiple
different scaled sets which they labeled
big atures to bring the hobbits dwarves
and other characters from Tolkien’s mind
to life you shall be the Fellowship of
the Ring
where do we go what gives you the right
what’s the difference between you and me
I’m not wearing hockey pants number five
the Dark Knight trilogy and inception
director Christopher Nolan has helmed
many effects-heavy franchises but this
filmmaker prefers to minimize CGI’s
importance instead opting for good
old-fashioned practical effects
he used miniatures for some Batman
Begins locales but not everyone would
flip an 18-wheeler with an air piston
drop an airplane to earth from another
airplane or use air cannons to blow up a
Paris street scene as for the hallway
fight well it wasn’t just our head
spinning
number four jaws
made by humans to scare humans jaws is
terrifying given the right light and
music
Art Director Joe Elvis’s forty person
team created three pneumatic prop sharks
for jobs which crewmembers nicknamed
Bruce after Steven Spielberg’s lawyer
but it was Spielberg’s insistence that
the Sharks be shot at sea instead of in
a prop tank that helped carry the film
well past its budget but we think it was
worth it
number three an American Werewolf in
London
a decaying buddy is bad enough
especially one who looks like a walking
meatloaf we can also thank makeup legend
Rick Baker prosthetics and some robotic
body parts for this incredible sequence
we’re bakers and director John Landis is
vision of a werewolf transformation
comes to life even though the flick is
decades-old we’re still as viscerally
moved today as the first time we saw the
oscar-winning horror comedy number two
Jurassic Park it’s no wonder this
Spielberg flick nabbed the Oscar for
Best Visual Effects years later it still
makes us hold on to our books sure the
Dino flick uses plenty of CGI that would
be at home in today’s blockbusters but
production also included a 20 foot tall
almost living and breathing animatronic
t-rex
as well as impressive rubber suits
that’s right our beloved heroes are
terrorized through Jurassic Park by guys
dressed up as velociraptors
number one the thing here’s proof that
practical effects do the job right after
working with director John Carpenter on
the fog
Rob poutine was tapped for the makeup
and puppetry of the thing and he uses
tummy teeth amputated limbs severed
heads spidery whatever’s and more to
keep our jaws firmly drop
as one of the older entries on our list
this practical effects masterpiece
definitely inspired many and scared the
bejesus out of all do you agree with our
list which are the practical special
effects that blew you out of the water
the more top tens about your favorite
flicks be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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