Disguises, costumes and makeup madness

Growing up my brother's friend Dan loved watching horror movies. Much like Rick Baker, he is a makeup effects expert and he loves his job. He's done the makeup for our various tv shows and movies. He did the makeup for Leno. Which I thought was brilliant. I looked very convincing in the Jay Leno makeup, everyone mistook me for the real Jay. Stan Winston specialised in robots/aliens type makeup, Tom Savini specialises in all the gory type of makeup and Rick Baker specialises in creature/monster makeup (as well as the ocassion age makeup)- our friend Dan specialises in all 3 of those.

We love the makeup effects Rick Baker did for American Werewolf In London, that werewolf transformation scene was pure gold and one that will never be surpassed, also the makeup used for the "not-quite-dead" zombified victims of the main character's "carnivorus nocturnal activities" looked pretty cool as well. My older brother got made up as the not-quite-dead but still deteorating zombified Jack (Griffin Dune's character) once. He really loved it. We also loved the makeup Rick Baker did for the Nutty Professor. Eddie Murphy must have had a LOT of fun playing all those different characters. the Tim Burton version of Planet Of The Apes was also awesome. The makeup effects he did for that film were wonderful. I did a couple of photomanips of ourselves as POTA style apes, I even did one of Andria. The makeup for Thriller was really good especially the zombies and werecat Michael. Also the alien makeup effects for Men In Black/Men In Black 2 were very good, I like the "Cornflake Head" alien from that movie, the makeup was very good- and also the "Three Eye Guy" alien was pretty cool too- but the "Bird people" makeup was excellent. Jack Nicholson looked pretty cool as a werewolf in Wolf. I've seen what Rick's makeup designs for the upcoming remake of The Wolfman look like, and I think they look amazing.

We love the Grinch the most, because the makeup was incredible in that film- nearly everyone in the cast was made up as a citizen of Whoville and Jim Carrey's grinch makeup was stunning. Jim looked really convincing as the grinch. You couldn't tell it was him underneath all that fake latex skin, prosphetics and green dyed yak hair. You know since I first saw that film in theatres I had ALWAYS wanted to be a grinch like the one in the film. I sometimes make my character in some of our fanfiction and animation half grinch. I always model my anthrogrinch characters in Robin Grinch and the Mangrinch comic series (which is also a tv show, cartoon, and movie series) on the Jim Carrey version of the grinch. I myself am a weregrinch now and my grinch form looks a lot like the grinch from the film except for the teeth which have cute fangs instead of being termite infested, I have Jim Carrey's regular voice instead of the Sean Connery accent, and I don't develop a taste for garbage or glass bottles- I still eat human food when i'm in grinch form.

Are you as mad about monster films as we are? Then you should rent out the film Igor, it's a pretty cool animated film by the writer of American Dad, it's really funny and it's kind of like a real shout-out to classic monster movies. Plus it's got some really clever voice actors in it like John Cusack as the voice of Igor, Jay Leno as the voice of Malbert, John Cleese as the voice of Igor's master, Eddie Izzard as the voice of Dr Schadenfreude and Steve Buchemi as the voice of Scamper the immortal rabbit.