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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

We love our big grinning lad bsky.app/profile/thew...

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Mrgoreycorey @mrgoreycorey.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

An oldie, but a goodie makeup from over a decade ago. A design that I manifested from sculpt to makeup application. This is all my work (minus sourcing someone to run the foam prosthetics). This makeup application won me a first place spot in the ONLY makeup competition I’ve ever tried out for.

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It’s Just The End🌞 @itsjustaname.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I started curating a list of special make up artists and builders specialized in monsters and prosthetics. Drop me a line if you know an account that should be on here. #specialEffects #spfx #sfx #practicalFx #fxMakeUp #makeUpEffects #makeUpFx #specialMakeUpFx #monsterMaker #prosthetics

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Margaret Qualley as Monstro ElisaSue behind the scenes of The Substance ✨ From @benditospoiler (IG)

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Some of my infection designs from the now all-broadcast Generation-Z. Info in alt text.

Sue Johnston in her penultimate stage of infection. Her skin is cracked and bloody, her hair is thin and falling out. She is wearing nine Prothetics on her face and another 12 on her hands.

Garrick Hagon in stage 2ii infection. Garrick was the voice of the Hemulin in the British dub of the Moomins and I loved hearing him talk.

A bit of infection creeps up under the of collar Rebecca Humphries.

Rebecca in the chair having her makeup applied. The infection moved across the body differently differently depending on how they were infected.

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The last episode of Generation-Z airs tonight on Channel 4 (already available on their vod platform) so here’s a puppet I designed for a previous episode that featured some self-surgery. We also made matching prosthetic versions of different stages to edit between. Credits in alt text.

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

From @justin_s_martinez (IG) Gore effect from VHS Beyond, created by Magee FX.

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Behind the scenes with the Manager Demon for Evil TV, created by Joel Harlow’s @chickenfist (IG) Morphology FX. Credits in alt text

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Completed Raatma sculpture by @MageeFX (IG) as seen at Monsterpalooza 2022. #HailRaatma

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christian @speederaserhead.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Daily Squibs archive post #2 CONTRABAND (Fulci, 1980)

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

The full Monstro required five heads, two full bodysuits, two partial bodysuits, a mold of Demi Moore’s head, Moore herself, VFX and CGI teams, and 30,000 gallons of blood. www.vulture.com/article/the-...

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How The Substance Created the Ultimate Body of Horrors

And turned Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley into one of the year’s best movie monsters.

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Margaret Qualley as MonstroElisaSue in The Substance, 2024. Design by Coralie Fargeat, Pierre-Olivier Persin and crew. #spoilers #gore #practicaleffects www.vulture.com/article/the-...

Margaret Qualley in a grotesque mutant costume inspired by David Cronenberg's The Fly and David Lynch's The Elephant Man

Three nearly identical head sculpts for MonstroElisaSue on an FX workshop table, intended for different angles and shots

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Crow deity costume from Neil Blomkamp's Demonic (2021). Amazing Ape Productions, 2021

Costume of a raggedy, decayed-looking avian human creature with a fleshless crow skull head

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Black Noir's head ripping gag from The Boys Season 2. From Mindwarp FX, 2019. Credits: www.instagram.com/p/CljqsdFuDUv/

Cast, painted and hair-punched mould of an actor's head and upper torso, with a grimacing expression and closed eyes. The material (likely silicone) has telltale cracks across the cheeks and down the neck

Fake body with the head and torso attached, and an actor dressed as Black Noir from The Boys is grabbing him by the throat

Internal shot of the head after it's been half torn off at the mouth. All the palate, throat, spine and jaw meat gross stuff is visible

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christian @speederaserhead.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Probably gonna port Daily Squibs over here properly on the first of the year because that's when I first started it and I like the symmetry but before then I'll do some reposts from the Daily Squibs archive: SCORE (Muroga, 1995)

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Close-ups of the Cello Man from NBC's Hannibal (Fromage, S01E08). Cast of actor Douglas Siddall, by Mindwarp FX (@nomad11, @10.shock IG). www.instagram.com/mindwarpfx/

Detailed painted cast of an actor as a corpse with a cello neck jutting from his mouth and the strings visible from his flayed throat, where his vocal cords would otherwise be

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Emma (Martha Holland) make-up process from The Gravedancers (2006). ⁣⁣⁣ Make-up and creature effects by Rebecca Wachtel, Mike Elizalde’s Spectral Motion, and Norman Cabrera

Six stages of prosthetic application to an actor's face to create a bug-eyed ghoulish face with jutting teeth and long stringy hair

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Testing the arm rip from Gen-Z at the workshop. Elliot and Becca having a right old time.

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Dee Sherwood Wallace in costume on set of The Birch (2016 short film). Effects by Cliff Wallace and Jessica Tay.

A camera points at a woman in a costume of a skull-faced birch dryad entity

The head of a woman in a costume of a skull-faced birch dryad entity. Birch branches and vines curl around a huge crown-like protrusion that makes up most of her head

Close-up of The Birch with her mouth open, showing off rotten teeth and slime

Whole body of The Birch, a human-like torso emerging from the thick stump of a birch tree in remote woods.

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Preparing the Beast from Hell Hole (2024). Todd Masters FX (@mastersfxstudios on IG)

Studio sculpt of a Lovecraftian, cephalopod-like creature about the size of a person's head and torso

Studio sculpt of a Lovecraftian, cephalopod-like creature, now painted in fleshy colours, with 4 effects technicians standing around it

An effects technician works on details of the creature, whose tentacles and fanged mouth are now attached.

Creature on set of Hell Hole, fully painted and covered with bloody slime, sitting on rocks and piles of gore in a grassy field. A puppeteer has his hand in it up to the shoulder.

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Behind the scenes shots from Gutterballs (2008). Effects by director Ryan Nicholson and team

Man with a pained expression and a gruesome slit throat effect, spraying blood up toward the ceiling

Masked killer drives a broken bowling pin into someone's eyesocket, causing a big spurt of blood

Rear angle of the slit throat effect as goopy blood flies toward the camera

Woman fires a shotgun and closes her eyes against the blood squib on the floor launching big arcs of blood up at her

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Another stunning gore effect from @roligore (IG). #practicaleffects #gore #prosthetics www.instagram.com/roligore/

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Amazing gore tutorial effects from @roligore (IG) for Fangoria Magazine. June 2020

Close up of a blonde woman looking into the camera. Special effects makeup has created a realistic gore effect where it looks like her lips and half of her face have been torn off

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

More masks. A wounded Fawn. Girl on the Third Floor Salt Walking Against The Rain.

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Animatronic comatose Jake Gyllenhaal for Source Code (2011) barely seen in the film. Rigged with a breathing chest and moving eyeballs under the lids. Adrien Morot and crew for Maestro Studio Montreal, 2010

A very extremely realistic torso and head of Jake Gyllenhaal lying face-up on a table, eyes closed. His lower torso and the rest of his body are missing, and bloodless organs are spilling out, his spine visible.

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Tom Savini, Doug Bradley and Steve Tolin behind the scenes of The Pinhead Experience @ Mad Monster Party Arizona in 2017. Often miscredited as a behind-the-scenes photo of Hellraiser (1987)

Tom Savini, Doug Bradley and Steve Tolin behind the scenes of The Pinhead Experience in 2017. Doug Bradley is seated with his eyes closed and hands clasped in a prayer while Tom Savini and Steve Tolin pretend to pound nails into his head with hammers

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Close-ups of the undead in Bonestorm (VHS: Viral, 2014). Effects by @subhumanoids & @vgpeffects (IG) #PracticalEffects #Mask #FX #VHS

Actor in a ghoul mask in a California drainage culvert where Bonestorm was filmed. The mask resembles a human skull with red slimy flesh strands stuck to it

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Some shots of Death (Cavin Cornwall) from the set of Tarot, 2022. Again, creature makeup design by me, from concept designs by @slimyswampghost.bsky.social Crew tagged in alt.

Cavin Cornwall as Death on the set of Tarot. He stands in a green screen cove on the last day of filming, having assets shot for the VFX team. He has sparse, lank black hair and deep, eyeless sockets. His skin is perforated, grey and veined, his ribs visible through it. He has long, pointed fingers.

Mona Turnbull (body painter and prosthetics artist) tends to Cavin Cornwall as Death in the makeup truck of Tarot. He perches on a stool. He has sparse, lank black hair and deep, eyeless sockets. His nose is missing. His skin is perforated, grey and veined, his ribs visible through it. He has long, pointed fingers.

Vukasin Popovic (prosthetics artist) admires Cavin Cornwall as Death in the makeup truck of Tarot. Cavin stands in fashionable slippers. He has sparse, lank black hair and deep, eyeless sockets. His nose is missing. His skin is perforated, grey and veined, his ribs visible through it. He has long, pointed fingers. He is reaching for the camera while exhaling a lung full of vape through his makeup. In the background stands Joss Carter, mid application of his Devil makeup.

Vukasin Popovic and Saffron Powell (prosthetics artists) stand with Death (Cavin Cornwall) in the studio in Serbia where we shot Tarot. Death has sparse, lank black hair and deep, eyeless sockets. His nose is missing. His skin is perforated, grey and veined. He has long, pointed fingers. He rests his hand on the shoulders of Saff (who looks very serious and professional) and Vukasin (who looks hysterically happy).

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Gruesome details of Captain Trips plague victims in The Stand miniseries (2020) by Lindala Shmincken FX. #PracticalEffects #FX #Gore #StephenKing #TheStand www.instagram.com/schminkenfx/

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Catacomb Practical @catacomb-practical.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

A favourite. Brutal arm gag from MindWarp Productions (IG) #PracticalEffects #Gore #FX www.instagram.com/mindwarpfx/

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