Creepiest Animatronics in Movies

[@fastpassfacts]

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[@Unimportantlady]

I think that the scariest one Is the Spacebug

[@musicalnerd1019]

Mine is at this little restaurant called rainforest cafe. All the animals are animatronics but there’s this really creepy tree that has a face and it speaks

[@SlipperySoap]

This is so scary, not to mention gross!!!!😱🤮

[@TanTan-hr7uq]

👏🏻👏🏻

[@jonathanlampkin6673]

@@Unimportantlady you

[@cromulentwords]

Audrey II was a piece of genius. I've seen modern CGI that doesn't move as smoothly as that giant puppet did in1986.

[@kodyk.7649]

They filmed it at half-speed which is how they attained that level of movement. Plus like 30 different puppeteers working on it at once lol. Some of the best animatronic work ever.

[@onyx_alagasia]

The work that goes in for productions of the musical is absolutely wild.

[@kodyk.7649]

@@onyx_alagasia I actually directed a stage production of it two years ago! We built our own puppets which were basically simplified versions of what professional productions use and it was still an incredible amount of work.

[@toxin5600]

You are right. This puppet is a BIG BOI GIANT

[@k31ra_39]

I agree! Little shop of horrors is by far one of my fave films ever. Audrey II impresses me more and more everytime I watch it.

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

The making of Little Shop is worth a whole video in itself. Unsurprisingly, Brian Henson was one of Audrey II's performers. And Marty Robinson, who performed Audrey II in the off-Broadway play, is best known for performing Snuffleupagus on Sesame St!

[@saucybee8130]

Feed me Seymour

[@masterseal0418]

I need 2 watch dat moovee!

[@joeyferguson840]

I loved that movie growing up. Steve Martin.....the dentist......the laughing gas..😂😂😂

[@tessaminick8745]

i swear, practical effects will always be freakier to me than CGI. There's no way computer graphics can make me as viscerally uncomfortable with The Fly as the practical effects will. Also props to the Neverending story for scaring the crap out of me.

[@BeckyNosferatu]

It's cause CGI can get it to look relatively normal. While practical effects will never achieve that level of realism that we expect, making us wary to it; it moves unnaturally and that sends our brain into fight or flight mode.

[@BeckyNosferatu]

@@SirBlackReeds I did, but yes, over time, there's a reaction that your brain goes 'I'm not in danger, this isn't going to hurt me!' and the light switches off.

[@Lumibear.]

It’s really hard and expensive to do it well, though, from the design, sculpt, build, puppeteering, lighting, direction, everything has to come together perfectly to make it work on the day, sometimes for just one shot, and if just one thing isn’t right, it doesn’t work, so it’s obvious why CGI is so much more preferred nowadays. For me, though, CGI, great as it is now, still often fails on two factors, the motion, if it breaks physics then you know it’s just a graphic so all the scare factor goes right out the window, and the interaction, if it never convincingly touches anything or anyone, then again, so not scary. If you’re trying to create a fictional reality that feels real, you just can’t beat building something real, but making it work is becoming a long lost art now. Shame.

[@ecjsinger3283]

The shark in the first Jaws is scarier then any other shark in any other Shark movie, in my opinion.

[@rosearthouse2324]

These animatronics have that element of soul and realism that connects to our primal fears and senses. True artisans and craftspeople. The 80s man!

[@TheFanBoy1233]

Honestly the lava demon is so impressive. It’s so high tech that I thought it was real. With the person moving in him. The rest mostly decent. But the lava demon is impressive.

[@amymeadows9834]

Heh yeah now-a-days that's normal in both movies and games. Hello there Doom eternal!

[@NatYourAverageNerd]

Good lord, I never realized how hideously impressive The Fly transformation effects were! That final metamorphosis made my skin crawl as much as clips from "The Thing" did, so I'm not watching those movies anytime soon. Mad respect for what they are, but I'm not a horror fan. I suffer plenty of nightmares WITHOUT watching scary movies. ;n;

[@curator3539]

The Thing is creepy but the Fly animatronic really freaks me out the most. Also when I was younger and first saw Tremors I had no idea it was meant to be a horror comedy and for weeks I walked softer and was terrified a Graboid would get me if I got off my bed! LOL!

[@Fritter_Films]

Audrey II was pure genius. It wasn’t even an animatronic. It was a PUPPET. Not to mention, Little Shop is my favorite musical/movie of all time.

[@fastpassfacts]

It was an animatronic puppet we were super clear about that 😊

[@k31ra_39]

Same! LSOH is by far my favourite movie musical Ever! Audrey II is so impressive, the engineering was wayyy ahead of its time.

[@Fritter_Films]

@@k31ra_39 Ikr

[@Shadowboltevilandwicked]

Right? It was so creative and it looks so real that I thought it was an actual plant and Little Shop of Horrors was my favorite oldies movie!

[@cinnamonsun7099]

Audrey 2 is my favorite villain I love Little Shop of Horrors so much. I love the character so much.

[@a_guy_who_exists]

Me 2

[@ladye1485]

Mine too. I’m glad his ass won in the original ending

[@cinnamonsun7099]

I wasn't born when this came out so I didn't know there was 2 movies of this.

[@tamarahackley9028]

Is Audrey 2 really the villain. Is there a villain. Maybe little shop of horrors is just a funny, thrilling, musical film.

[@cinnamonsun7099]

@@tamarahackley9028 Well he eats his creator and takes over the world so yeah He’s a Villian

[@hownot2junk803]

Ayyy, nice to see Audrey II in here! Amazingly realistic puppet!

[@ParkMind]

Imagine how the people making those animatronics most have felt

[@booleybTheClown]

Cant wait to scare some people with these

[@OnePunchYume]

Tired.

[@psydoof]

Proud

[@clementinethemoth9247]

bored

[@KonpakuYoumu2003]

Imagine that your boss says Boss : BUILD AN GODDAMN MUTATING FLY HUMAN ABOMINATION NOW AND MAKE IT THE MOST GROSS YOU CAN MAKE

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Oh no, my sleep paralysis demons are in here

[@blmlgbtq149]

XD yesterday night i had sleep pryalisis

[@JenniferSnaps]

Monsters Inc's training child has entered the chat

[@princesskristan]

Audrey II is amazing! But the transformation scene in The Fly will forever gross me out

[@timothyhoenikker9641]

This is how you make a dog vomit Not grass The fly

[@peterparker5810]

@@timothyhoenikker9641 hello fetch

[@timothyhoenikker9641]

@@peterparker5810 hi

[@LilJBean]

THANK YOU!!!!!! SOMEONE FINALLY PUT NEVER ENDING STORY ON HERE!!! I cannot tell you how many countdowns don't have him and I'm like... Every single open closet in the dark was scary to me as a kid after that movie. Gmork just scared my little self to death.

[@mikakilian4830]

Never ending story is one of the worst movies ever made!

[@LilJBean]

@@mikakilian4830 Opinions aren't fact. But to you, indeed it's bad and I respect that. :P

[@mikakilian4830]

@@LilJBean when the author of a book says, he wants nothing to do withe the film, because it didn't capture the energy and vibe of the book, i can say that this is a fact

[@LilJBean]

@@mikakilian4830 So... You're saying...you're justified... because of what people think about it. That too is opinion. I'm not sure you know how facts work lol if he didn't like it and want nothing to do with it... That doesn't justify it as fact. Sorry but I love this movie, so fight me all you want dude idk how else to kindly explain how opinions work lol

[@mikakilian4830]

@@LilJBean i think the movie is cool, but its not good. As someone who loves the book, and i read the book like 20 times, the film is not good. Fundamental parts from the story are missing. Atrèju is in a desert at one point and he meets a big lion who helps him. This is the point in the story that makes a big part and its missing. Without the lion, Atrèju wouldn't know how to fight the blackness. And this is a fact. So, storytelling wise is the movie not good. If you don't believe me, pleas read the never ending story. Also, Bastian is a fat kid, not skinny

[@PatrickDougall]

Yay! Thanks for having me on this one! I forgot about some of these! The Thing tho! Truly the best!

[@fastpassfacts]

Patrick Dougall it was super fun working with you on this! Thank you!! 💕

[@KatieLHall-fy1hw]

After Audrey II you mean. The Thing has no rhythm and doesn’t sing. 😆

[@MsDisneylandlover]

U did a good job and congratulations

[@Mintea326]

Clash of the Titan's Medusa actually helped me design a character's face anatomy where their mouth was able to open up into a similar shape like Medusa's when she screamed towards the actors.

[@alihussan20]

Ayyy, nice to see Audrey II in here! Amazingly realistic puppet!

[@jaymanuel3396]

I hated the dopey human face on Medusa. I liked her monstrous reptilian face better.

[@masterseal0418]

Hello Pit. You come to crash my homecoming party? -Medusa Kid Icarus Uprising

[@itsQUINNderful]

I shouldn’t have been eating during this... The Fly transformation made me almost puke 🤮

[@clementinethemoth9247]

SAMEEE😭

[@itsQUINNderful]

@@clementinethemoth9247 oh no 🤦🏻‍♀️ I had to push my plate away. I was eating green enchiladas 😭

[@gingerizard3262]

Really? I thought that was really cool

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Or the thing lol

[@itsQUINNderful]

@@gingerizard3262 it’s super cool! I love animatronics but this was too much while eating 😂

[@faheemjerseyxs4222]

I'm glad that The thing is still being mentioned to this day :)

[@alexschneider1667]

The T. rex from Jurassic park is my personal favorite scary animatronic, it’s SO GOOD, that movie hasn’t aged a minute since it came out

[@leonasian716]

Lol, are you joking right?

[@Mical21]

In 10:34 the Batman forever card it just says “bat forever” instead of Batman forever lol

[@clementinethemoth9247]

bat forever.

[@texaspoontappa9653]

Messy editing. Not shocking from this Channel smh

[@garthdavis4320]

Batman symbol.

[@Towgy]

*B A T F O R E V E R*

[@KonpakuYoumu2003]

"Hey what movie we watch" Bat "What , BAT ???" Bat Beggins is a good movie , wanna watch it ?? "Do you say Batman Beggins ??" No i say BAT BEGGINS "Ok "

[@who8518]

gmork and the thing terrified mee. they both were so unnerving. the graboids from tremors were pretty gnarly too. love it !

[@caitlinfedorek]

How wonderful! I will say, some of the cuts during the Audrey II part seemed a bit rushed... :(

[@langundovitale1305]

I saw Audrey II and The Thing, and immediately clicked. Great video!

[@krististarosta6736]

Ewwww! Kuato and Bruntflefly are disgusting, terrifying, and creepy!

[@timothyhoenikker9641]

Yep

[@Seantendo]

That's why we love them!

[@not_elie6116]

These animatronics freak me out. I can’t believe people can actually make this kind of stuff by hand!

[@k31ra_39]

I've been waiting for this all week! Amazing vid!

[@CosmicRin]

It's a shame that we don't see many animatronics like this anymore in film. CG is good and all, but these are something else.

[@ravenswoods177]

Absolutely agree. The artistic talent is incredible with the animatronics, puppets etc.

[@TheDigitalApple]

Both CG and Practical effects are great and both shouldn’t be considered better than the other! *Change my mind*

[@clamcrewcarclub6017]

They’re best when used together to mask each other’s shortcomings

[@movingaccountsyeha6991]

Yeah as rusty said, when both are used together the end result can be pretty good

[@lordmegatrondoesntdodarken5852]

Agreed. Practical effects and CG can't do everything, but it's extremely amazing when they work together

[@AJStarhiker]

@@movingaccountsyeha6991 Jurassic Park is one of, if not the best, blending of physical and CG.

[@the13throse]

Exactly. Both can be incredible when done right

[@danielleking262]

I had no idea that shot of the Devil (I guess called the lava demon?) in Bedazzled was that complex! I thought it was just CGI for that short amount of screen time. Good grief, I hope they used it in some other movie!!!

[@drchipohpoh]

great video. I appreciate that y'all took your time with this. giving more time for detail in place of just the highlights. constructive criticism: the audio editing had quite a few abrupt jumps, could use a bit of tightening in the future

[@ericnunez8254]

Dang, the work needed for Audrey II is impressive

[@MundyMedics]

I would say the 1988 remake of The Blob is pretty damn good too, with loads of awesome practical effects!

[@od3910]

I love how the thing gets its own warning

[@SuperTonkers]

This was awesome! Great video and Thank you for sharing! So many great ones and so many movie memories! 💀❤️

[@meli-chan9142]

No matter how many times I've seen the fly transformation, and gotten traumatized from it. The dog scene in The Thing will forever traumatize/scar me for the rest of my LIFE!!

[@mouseman3203]

Yes I’m early!!! I love animatronics In movies! They are so much better than CGI

[@willhuey4891]

yeah but now with cgi its a mix of practiical fx and cgi aka motion capture.

[@g.b569]

While CGI is beneficial to films, I will always appreciate animatronics and practical effects

[@ScarecrowWizardofOzFan]

The Movie The Thing is most grosses movie I saw and very terrifying 😳😬

[@timothyhoenikker9641]

I should watch it

[@psydoof]

0:46 “identity theft is not a joke Jim”

[@magenxmajestic]

Bears. Beets. Battlestar galactica.

[@LadyMiir]

Gremlins traumatized me as a child, lol. There was a whole ride themed around it at Warner Bros. Movie World in Australia... complete with lots and lots of gremlin animatronics that moved alarmingly realistically. I got to help build and operate some of the Audrey 2 puppets for my high school's production of Little Shop, and that was so much fun. It was really fun figuring out how to sync with the guy voicing the plant.

[@lilith4413]

The gravoids truly freaked me out as a child. I would walk around my house so quietly thinking they were in a pop up through the floor and I spent way too much time in my bedroom that was on the 2nd floor.. I was still convinced they could come up through that and get me.

[@smallartist4945]

I watched the Thing for the first time two days ago. Jesus Christ I actually let out a few screams and backed into the wall of the bed. That scared the hell out of me!

[@RealAngelOfMusic]

Never-ending Story is so amazing, the music is great and the storyline is absolutely perfect 😍 I would definitely recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it already ❤️

[@vincentanuneko4269]

Ever read the book by Michael Ende?

[@MKLettis]

I hope we see more animatronics and puppets in film in the future. IMO 9 times outta 10 they look way better than CGI.

[@ChristianPGomez]

I LOVE AUDREY 2!

[@jasonblakespacepirated7093]

Terrific video! Totally enjoyed! 👍🏼

[@Darkhinilus]

Just to give it a mention, for people that are familiar with it. The old movie the Dark Crystal, from creator jim henson, wich is also a movie with puppets. Also received a prequel series last year, called The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance. And it was realy wel done.

[@Stormkrow280]

Stan Winston was one of the best special effects artists ever.

[@libertyeckert6027]

My high school performed little shop a few years ago and I got to puppeteer Audrey 2, soooo much fun!!

[@LegacyToons]

There's no way i could resist clicking on this video, especially with good ol' Audrey 2 in the thumbnail

[@Str8Lthl]

Seeing Audrey ll move like that...was just amazing for animatronics. And with The thing...watching as a child scared the living shit outta me...those roars and screams it made was just chilling. Love horror animatronic movies.

[@texaspoontappa9653]

Awesome guest! I love Disney Dan

[@clexmce3569]

Keep up the good work on the videos!

[@nicolepowell5470]

The fly truly terrified me when it was on back in the day

[@faoxie2209]

Okay so like I thought, the giant bat from Batman Forever is currently in Lyon, France in the museum of cinema and miniatures ! :D

[@fastpassfacts]

That’s so cool thanks for the info!

[@folfielukather8083]

there is a graboid animatronic in the lone pine film museum, its really cool, and really big

[@theratman6468]

I feel betrayed for this not featuring The Dark Crystal.

[@LemurFrenzy212]

The work put into all these animatronics are just incredible, and what's more they do their job. They terrified us! (I can still hardly look at Gmork directly, I had so many nightmares as a young child because of him)

[@FNaFan-tk6pu]

0:19 PlEaSe DePoSiT fIvE cOiNs Me: GIVE ROCKSTAR FREDDY FIVE COINS BEFORE HE KILL YOU LOL

[@UCRfZb91nX-triozNmzvaRrA]

Wow! Very Terrifying! But Interesting as well, in the other Film I was talking about how Dallin Appeared with his Offhand Disney KZbin channel in Haunted Mansion Origins and mentioned Jean Lafitte even though it wasn't Involving him, I thought of an Idea for a Haunted Mansion Origins 3 where it can be about Jean Lafitte and Walt Disney's Idea of adding him I think that would be Awesome! I hope you have a Happy Halloween!🎃👻

[@devilluv_]

YESSS I'm not late! To be honest I saw most of these animatronics when I was little and none of them scared me, but I can see why they scared so many people back then!

[@konoikurozora5851]

I don't think I'll ever think an animatronic is scary, since I love all kind of puppets to no end, and I do consider animatronics and other automatons as part of that category. I love them so much I find all of them beautiful and couldn't be afraid of them. But Gmork, really? Even putting aside my love for these mechanical beings, he looks so gorgeous, so beautiful... How can one find him scary? Well, it doesn't help I'm a bit sad for the character, too... And oh my god the giant bat... I ALSO love bats... so... this is perfection... I'm so sad we didn't get to see it a lot in the final version of the movie.

[@irishfireclaw]

The Thing was an amazing animatronic, it captured the fear and the horror of an alien imposter that it honestly kinda makes me shiver and I don’t get scared easily

[@vekomavich4013]

Woohoo it uploaded!

[@LionmaneElsie08]

Older movies - this movie used practically effects, some CGI, makeup, things mixed together to make realistic blood and gore, puppets and animatronics that took 10+ people to make it work, even animatronics which were not on screen for very long, suits and more. Modern movies - we did it on the computer

[@ansleyzigzag]

Audrey II!!! I love Little Shop!

[@artsynerd1360]

I saw the thumbnail and was like "hey, I literally JUST watched The Thing last night!!" The animatronics were truly something else. The movie was excellent, like holy crap I love it. The original was a lot more gory, and oh so terrifying. The prequel that came years later was really good too, but it didn't quite have what the '82 one did for sure!!

[@BeckyNosferatu]

I was going to riot if you guys didn't mention how the actors on Little Shop of Horrors had to lip-sync in slow motion! Everyone on that set were fantastic!

[@michaelparylak5649]

Even as a child I was more scared of what gmork represented. As opposed to his physical appearance.

[@SeraliaAerials]

I’m sorry but the graboid head that functions as a suit made me laugh so hard. That spooky fleshy head looking around with two little black shoes poking out the bottom is freaking hilarious.

[@annasaiz50]

plant:Mario must be scared of me now Mario:This man is on fast pass facts I salute u

[@erynharris2824]

The Thing is one of my favorite films of all time, and Bottin’s hard work will never go unappreciated in my house ✊💪💙

[@vrabbit7730]

Little shop of horrors was my childhood

[@ventomario3251]

I just searched up aninattinics on a whim and in somehow early lol And yes the thing was a horrifying movie, gross too.

[@thehighjedi5109]

Lol. I literally just got done watching Tremors this morning. I never would have thought I would have ended the day learning about the animatronic graboids. Awesomeness. I still remember watching it for the first time as a kid at a friends birthday party and halfway through they got bored and paused it and we all went outside. All I kept asking them was to go back inside and finish the movie. I’ll never forget that.

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

I don't think Gmork was supposed to be a werewolf. I think he's just a giant, supernatural wolf, like Fenrir from Norse mythology. =)

[@Mokiefraggle]

In the book, he's specifically stated as a werewolf. It's what lets him be capable of moving between Fantastica (Fantasia in the film) and the real world. In Fantastica, he's a wolf with the capacity for speech and the intellect of a human. In the real world, he states that he becomes something like a man, but not truly an "earthling" man. It's never shown if he can transform between shapes while in Fantastica, but he's apparently something far more than just a giant wolf.

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

@@Mokiefraggle Well, I appreciate the info. I still haven't read it yet. But I was simply referring to the one in the movie, specifically. Although who can really say what W. Peterson was thinking at the time. Thanks though! =)

[@nicolepowell5470]

Thank you for all the behind the scenes footage just brilliant.

[@naiyahp]

I like how no one controls any of the animatronics. 🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@deathdefying1472]

I just think that these are all awesome!!!!!!!!

[@Loki-Wannabe]

As much as I love my father I can't get over the fact that he showed my the movie "The Thing" when I was 9

[@ryleighrose5827]

ok but like... imagine if these were underwater

[@ravenswoods177]

What I find interesting is how much computer animation has changed acting. Actors are sometimes acting completely alone, covered in dots. Actors aren't working with puppets or animatronics. I find the miniature sets incredibly impressive

[@LSween7573]

I know that they’re not animatronics but I think the gremlins should’ve been on the list Audrey 2 was definitely amazing though

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

I've seen the movie dozens of times, and I never knew the lava-demon in 'Bedazzled' was animatronic! That just makes me love the movie even more! (and that Hellish monster STILL looks better than Malbulgia in 'Spawn'.)

[@eric-0nline]

Am I the only one whos 13:15 Meryl Streep Death Becomes Her is messed up?

[@doesthisIookinfected]

Mine is too. It seems like the entire segment was edited out probably for copyright.

[@TransCatDoNstuff]

When your finally early for once- Also love your vids! You guys have made my interest in animatronics and mechanical working grow as I slowly learned more and more history behind them! And I'm very grateful for it! Keep up the amazing work!! (^w^)

[@timothyhoenikker9641]

Hey you Yes

[@cheyransiva4128]

the thing movie is freaking yikes it made my toes weaird but the alien designer must have a good award for creating the creepiest alien

[@Frank_is_awesome]

Great video 😃

[@dragonslayersworkshop8598]

Kuato is so disturbing, but Gmork, a wolf, is my favorite. I LOVE WOLVES!

[@vincentanuneko4269]

Ever read the book by Michael Ende? In the book gmork is a werewolf.

[@mango-jango9995]

“Have you ever heard of insect politics?” *plays dog food ad*

[@movingaccountsyeha6991]

I got an ad for aspen dental

[@maydayredd6137]

I was definitely intimidated and unnerved by gmork as a kid

[@ashleightompkins3200]

I remember when my school did a performance of Little Shop and the Audrey 2 puppet they used was just crazy!

[@Yourlocalsimpyy]

Omg love the movie little shop of horrors I thought Audrey 2 the plant was cute

[@H20SkyGirl]

Little shop of horrors is my favorite movie of all time

[@kurtwagner4663]

I once got lucky and could actually sit on the head of Fruchfur(Falcor I think is his englisch name) at Babelsberg in Germany. It was the real prop. It was so freaking awesome since I used to watch the Neverending Story frequently as a kid. And sitting on his head was just so great!

[@clarktooncrossing3975]

Outside of the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park, Audrey II is my favorite effect in a film ever. I feel sorry for the puppeteers animating the darn thing, but boy does their work pay off big time! Add onto that the brilliantly cast Levi Stubbs and you have the meanest green mother cinema will ever see! Seriously Warner Brothers, DON'T REBOOT LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS!

[@nameisnathan4698]

At his intro you can actually hear "Please Deposit Five Coins" from fnaf, alot of you know this but this is for the new ones

[@johasnolife5121]

the fly used to freak me out so much as a kid omg- i remember my dad watching it w me in the room and i’d have to cover my eyes lol

[@lexjasso7480]

Finally! I was waiting for this and finally is here...