I love the makeup and special effects that goes into some horror, sci or fantasy movies. My favourite makeup artists are Rick Baker, Tom Savini and the late great Stan Winston.
I get this monthly magazine called Makeup Artist Magazine, it's a real top of the line magazine all about makeup in movies and tv shows and stuff like that. Other than me the only other people who have seen and read these are the makeup artists themselves.
The makeup for Michael Jackson's Ghosts was pretty damm awesome, especially the Mayor and Ghoul makeups (both for the Maestro AND the Mayor)
The mayor makeup was particuarly clever, you couldn't even tell it was really MJ under all that.
In fact on Agony Booth when they "reviewed" it they refered to the Mayor as Mayor Ebert because they thought he looked like film critic Roger Ebert (also possibly a nod to the fact there was a Mayor Ebert character in the 90's Godzilla movie, who coincidentally looked a lot like Roger Ebert).
And of course i do love The Grinch, it is one of my favourite Jim Carrey movies.
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Sunday, 16 May 2010
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
New Monster Factfile
Welcome to another ghoulishly entertaining edition of Monster Factfile. In today's episode we will be telling all about the Superghoul from Michael Jackson's Ghosts
Description:
This breed of creature is a subspecies of demon known as Super Ghoul. In human form they tend to be spellcasters or necromancers. Most well known example of one who happens to be a spellcaster is the Maestro.
Appearance:
They are quite similar in appearance to a Buffy style vampire except they're much cooler looking and have pointed ears and claws. Could almost pass for a member of the Manhattan clan from Disney's Gargoyles if they had horns and wings and a tail. Some have yellow or orangish eyes while the more evil ones have red eyes or sometimes white ones that glow.
Habitat:
These kind of demons like to live in haunted mansions and other dark and scary places. In human form they often like to hang out with various different ghosts from the distant past.
Behaviour traits:
Despite their rather sinister looks, the superghoul is actually quite a likable creature. And often tend to be of the lawful good alignment like the Maestro - the only one of these that wasn't of this alignment was the Mayor after he got posessed and that's because he is of the lawful evil alignment. In human form said superghoul can often be very eccentric and charming and know a lot of magic tricks.
Powers:
These creatures possess a variety of unique supernatural powers when in human and in their natural ghoul form, in human form they possess supernatural magic abilities such as the ability to conjur up a family of ghosts to aid them, in ghoul form they posesss very keen senses, super strength and numerous other demon powers including possession. They are able to possess another person by simply flying into them. By posessing that person they are able to make them do anything - even dancing (like with the Mayor). They are also able to change their size.
Becoming One:
One of the many supernatural powers a super ghoul possess is the ability to transform a person into one of their kind by possessing them. Becoming one yourself might be a difficult task to do if you don't have already someone like MJ to show you how to do it.
Transforming:
The transformation is usually involuntarily and painful at first and usually happens after that person is possessed - as with the Mayor for instance. But eventually the person will get used to it. It's usually a very fun transformation to watch - if you wish to be one yourself you'll need someone like the Maestro to teach you
Description:
This breed of creature is a subspecies of demon known as Super Ghoul. In human form they tend to be spellcasters or necromancers. Most well known example of one who happens to be a spellcaster is the Maestro.
Appearance:
They are quite similar in appearance to a Buffy style vampire except they're much cooler looking and have pointed ears and claws. Could almost pass for a member of the Manhattan clan from Disney's Gargoyles if they had horns and wings and a tail. Some have yellow or orangish eyes while the more evil ones have red eyes or sometimes white ones that glow.
Habitat:
These kind of demons like to live in haunted mansions and other dark and scary places. In human form they often like to hang out with various different ghosts from the distant past.
Behaviour traits:
Despite their rather sinister looks, the superghoul is actually quite a likable creature. And often tend to be of the lawful good alignment like the Maestro - the only one of these that wasn't of this alignment was the Mayor after he got posessed and that's because he is of the lawful evil alignment. In human form said superghoul can often be very eccentric and charming and know a lot of magic tricks.
Powers:
These creatures possess a variety of unique supernatural powers when in human and in their natural ghoul form, in human form they possess supernatural magic abilities such as the ability to conjur up a family of ghosts to aid them, in ghoul form they posesss very keen senses, super strength and numerous other demon powers including possession. They are able to possess another person by simply flying into them. By posessing that person they are able to make them do anything - even dancing (like with the Mayor). They are also able to change their size.
Becoming One:
One of the many supernatural powers a super ghoul possess is the ability to transform a person into one of their kind by possessing them. Becoming one yourself might be a difficult task to do if you don't have already someone like MJ to show you how to do it.
Transforming:
The transformation is usually involuntarily and painful at first and usually happens after that person is possessed - as with the Mayor for instance. But eventually the person will get used to it. It's usually a very fun transformation to watch - if you wish to be one yourself you'll need someone like the Maestro to teach you
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Innocent MJ
The late Michael Jackson was a musical visionary, there is no one quite like him.
Of all of his achievements, I find Ghosts to be one of his best.
Stan Winston worked with Michael Jackson on the short film Ghosts which was a really amazing halloween themed video. MJ played 5 characters in the movie.
The makeup in Ghosts was so incredible it was mind blowing. Now you may not know this but the hefty, middle aged white guy with glassess is MJ - and no i'm not joking. That IS Michael in makeup as the "Mayor" character.
Some people could not tell it was him - in fact some people on youtube say the mayor looks like Roger Ebert the film critic. In fact, in a review of "Ghosts" on the site Agony Booth the reviewer refers to the Mayor as "Mayor Ebert" - a nod to the fact that the 1998 Godzilla movie in which the mayor of the city was named Mayor Ebert and looked a lot like the film critic Roger Ebert. I wonder if Roger Ebert knows about that one.
According to Ritchie Alonzo (the guy who created the Mayor makeup) in the August 2009 issue of Makeup Artist Magazine - Michael went out as the "Mayor" character.
I also enjoyed the message the video had. I am one of the many people out there who believes that MJ is innocent and not a pedophile.
I was also slightly offended by the jokes Jay Leno made about him during the 2005 trial era. The worst was a phony interview with MJ which is actually just footage from the Living With Michael Jackson special with Jay inserted in Martin Bashir's place. Not only did Jay make Michael look like a fool in that fake interview but he also butchered one of Michael's best songs - and i' m talking about Billie Jean. He gets the lyrics wrong - well gets the "Billie Jean is not my lover" part right but he gets the part after that confused, he sings..."He's just a guy." Everyone knows the titular person of the song Billie Jean is a female NOT a male - apparently Leno doesn't know the lyrics properly.
Therefore, Leno knows nothing about MJ. Just be glad he's not doing any MJ jokes now - it would be in bad taste if he did - as you must never speak ill of the dead.
Also the story behind the song Billie Jean oddly enough is that there was a woman who accused MJ of being the father of one of her twins.
MJ is, was, and always will be an inspiration to musicians everywhere no matter what the media says about him.
Of all of his achievements, I find Ghosts to be one of his best.
Stan Winston worked with Michael Jackson on the short film Ghosts which was a really amazing halloween themed video. MJ played 5 characters in the movie.
The makeup in Ghosts was so incredible it was mind blowing. Now you may not know this but the hefty, middle aged white guy with glassess is MJ - and no i'm not joking. That IS Michael in makeup as the "Mayor" character.
Some people could not tell it was him - in fact some people on youtube say the mayor looks like Roger Ebert the film critic. In fact, in a review of "Ghosts" on the site Agony Booth the reviewer refers to the Mayor as "Mayor Ebert" - a nod to the fact that the 1998 Godzilla movie in which the mayor of the city was named Mayor Ebert and looked a lot like the film critic Roger Ebert. I wonder if Roger Ebert knows about that one.
According to Ritchie Alonzo (the guy who created the Mayor makeup) in the August 2009 issue of Makeup Artist Magazine - Michael went out as the "Mayor" character.
I also enjoyed the message the video had. I am one of the many people out there who believes that MJ is innocent and not a pedophile.
I was also slightly offended by the jokes Jay Leno made about him during the 2005 trial era. The worst was a phony interview with MJ which is actually just footage from the Living With Michael Jackson special with Jay inserted in Martin Bashir's place. Not only did Jay make Michael look like a fool in that fake interview but he also butchered one of Michael's best songs - and i' m talking about Billie Jean. He gets the lyrics wrong - well gets the "Billie Jean is not my lover" part right but he gets the part after that confused, he sings..."He's just a guy." Everyone knows the titular person of the song Billie Jean is a female NOT a male - apparently Leno doesn't know the lyrics properly.
Therefore, Leno knows nothing about MJ. Just be glad he's not doing any MJ jokes now - it would be in bad taste if he did - as you must never speak ill of the dead.
Also the story behind the song Billie Jean oddly enough is that there was a woman who accused MJ of being the father of one of her twins.
MJ is, was, and always will be an inspiration to musicians everywhere no matter what the media says about him.
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