VFX Artists React to Bad and Great CGi 105

[@Playcultura]

Hi! Italy here! My Granpa's brother worked as a runner and assistaint on The Palm Beach Story. I had the chance to hear the full story about this shot, and it is absolutely mind-blowing. He was there during the 3 weeks needed to make this. During the production, they initially attempted to manually create camera motion using some ingenious gear mechanism to maintain a constant speed. Countless takes were done in a single day, and they thought they had nailed it. However, when they got to the lab (no monitors back then), they discovered three major problems: First, the camera angle was off. People in the background were caught in the transition line between takes, and no single shot matched perfectly. Second, they realized that for a seamless result, they had to start the shot with the camera in motion and end it the same way, which meant no cool ending titles. Finally, the transition line between the takes was quite visible, as they had no idea how to blend it seamlessly. As a result, they dedicated an entire week in the lab, tirelessly inventing a method to blend the transition line between two shots. They were thrilled, thinking they had come up with a film editing groundbreaking technique, only to find out later that it had already been done before. Undeterred, they embarked on another week of attempts. The first day alone was filled with challenges, dealing with smoke, noise, and hour-long pauses between shots. Why? Because the camera was mounted on diagonal rails, connected to chains, which were then linked to a car engine. Yes, they had a motorized camera motion setup! Countless takes were captured over two days. But finally, they achieved their goal. The camera angle was fixed, no one crossed the cutting line, and the shots blended seamlessly.

[@PogieJoe]

That is absolutely incredible. Thank you for sharing!

[@Victor-rn1zn]

A week later and no acknowledgement from Corridor :( such a nice story

[@xk5687]

hope corridor notice this

[@tylerc161]

I love SO much how literally the internet is answering questions from 1943. Like, what are the chances you, watching this right now, having happened to know grandpas brother and being told the story. This is absolutely amazing (and I'm not being sarcastic here either).

[@memesfromdeepspace1075]

So basicaly they brute force it......till get right

[@ENTERtheCREATOR]

Don't forget that the VFX of the Mask hold up because it isn't supposed to look 100% real, but rather, like a cartoon pulled out of the screen into the real world.

[@Royalname31]

It helps because they used night lighting to their advantage, so the over-illuminated that CG had to use, at the time, fit really well with the atmosohere.

[@synaesthesia2010]

all of the lighting techniques that have been created in the years since would have destroyed the concept of the character, so the limitations at the time really did work in its favour

[@olik136]

I remember at the time we subscribed to a (the first in my country) pay-tv channel and it came with a monthly magazine- it had a printed out CGI-break down in it, it really was a big thing at the time.

[@ODekaK]

It also helps that Jim Carrey himself is like a cartoon pulled out of the screen into the real world.

[@RoderickThe13]

@@ODekaK Yeah, no other actor would sell the cartoony effects as well as Jim Carrey

[@patrickreadjohnson_moonwatcher]

What a fun breakdown you guys did of our film! You guessed pretty close on most things, but if you ever want to know the REAL story behind ANY shot we did, I'm happy to drop by!

[@jordibarguno]

In the case of Baby's Day Out, it wasn't just robots and a real baby. Verne Troyer, the actor who plays Mini Me in Austin Powers, also doubled for the Baby for some of the more complicated stunts.

[@kurtharsis]

Was just coming here to say this

[@sam8404]

@@kurtharsis only a couple days late lol.

[@prodigalson8400]

The "You wanna see something really scary?" scene with Dan Aykroyd in the Twilight Zone movie freaked me out as a kid. Also the TV creature scene from the "it's a Good Life" segment and the "Gremlin on the wing" scene from the same movie.

[@Jaheartsjonas]

The transformation scene, after they inject him with the invisibility serum in the lab, from The Hollow Man definitely scarred me for a life as a kid. I still had nightmares about it up to at least my early 20's. There is a reason why our ugly insides are covered up by this lovely organ known as skin (and shoutout to hair too)

[@rome8180]

Dark City is an overlooked classic. Glad to see it get some shine on this channel.

[@cenciende9401]

I definitely appreciate the artistry, but I never liked the movie lol

[@macScsgo]

Seriously sooooo good

[@the-NightStar]

I love Dark City. It's like The Matrix but not stupid.

[@rome8180]

@@the-NightStar exactly. Maybe it's because I didn't see The Matrix when I was a teenager so I don't have any emotions wrapped up in it, but that movie kind of sucks. Lol

[@DrFrankenolly]

Niko and Wren describing a multi-plane camera at 14:06. Technology that Disney used to make their animated film and give depth with forward and backward motion.

[@MrHitchey]

I was always scared to death of all the “face morphs” in “The devils advocate”. It was people morphing into demons and it terrified me.

[@Vultoor]

Absolutely terrified when Bishop was ripped apart in Aliens. My dad fell asleep watching the film. I’d been put to bed but came downstairs aged no more than 6 and watched the end of the movie. I wrote about how scared I was in my diary at school accompanied by a drawn picture of Ripley vs the Alien. My teacher asked to see my parents as a result 😂😅

[@Rockhopper1]

the wedding scene is a lot simpler than it appears, its done with a duvetyne black curtain, motion control did exist in that period, Lydecker and Gillespie had motion control systems both of them FX gurus at the time. Also ford factory had a motion control system for the automotive production pipeline, it was done with punch cards and motor control systems using the punch card to control on and off switching, it was also used by animators. So the camera is on a moco track. The shot is done using a bipack magazine on the camera, so the first pass was the two on the left, with the set blacked off with flags and the duvetyne curtain and a script supervisor with a stopwatch calling out the moves, first pass is done, then the curtain is moved across, blacking out the first pass area, exposing for the wedding guests on the right. Script supervisor calls out the timings. The shot is then done. The glass shot on the window, the explanation was correct, the multiplane move trick had been used on other films notably King Kong, but that was how it was done, with the rear projection.

[@adityanjs3562]

Yes you can see it in their shadows

[@tetsuoshima2314]

@@adityanjs3562 yeah you can see shadow on the floor getting cut off with a straight though feathered edge

[@SamGorski]

😵

[@JRHermle]

The director also used a similar effect in his next film "Sullivan's Travels".

[@supermus7291]

If it is true that they uses rear projection for the title part at the end, it made me think of the following possibility: if half of the set is real, and the other half is rear projection, then you could place the actors next to their twins which are displayed on the rear projection footage, and achieve this effect. What do you think?

[@Eniallator]

Not sure if you've covered it yet or not, but the scene with the scarab beetle crawling under the skin in the original "The Mummy" definitely spooked me out when I saw it! Would love to see a VFX artists react going over it :)

[@JSp4wN]

I'm 99% sure they covered that within the first 20 or so episodes of this show.

[@MatiasFeliciano1]

Keep an eye out on the earliest episodes, I believe they've covered it up already.

[@jaylh2001]

I'm pretty sure they did already

[@silverblue73]

@@MatiasFeliciano1 Hope they're labeling these clips in a spreadsheet to search

[@wtimmins]

More people should see Dark City!! LOVE that thing. It does such an amazing job of building up 'wait, what?' tension until things go nuts.

[@RowdiesFan1]

As a kid, having Earth get blown up in the opening scene of Titan A.E., even as an animated film, was so well done it was crazy. The city lights winking out, the pacing of the evacuation and story, the ongoing battle in orbit, stuff getting caught in the explosion. It was amazing.

[@Herr_Weiss00]

I love Titan A.E.! I haven't seen that in years!

[@MrKamfjord]

Titan A.E. definitely doesn't get the amount of love that it deserves. Would love if it showed up in a future episode!

[@cudak888]

Absolutely delighted to see _The Palm Beach Story's_ ending scene discussed on the Corridor couch. It had my jaw on the floor like Jim Carrey's Mask character when I first saw it. Hoping that the oxygen of publicity helps bring to light how the first half of that shot was actually pulled off.

[@brewskiproductionslasvegas]

The library ghost transformation in Ghostbusters when it came out scared me to death. A lot of that movie still scares me, and I'm almost 50.

[@Chalupakabra]

A scene from my child hood that terrified me was the face melt & head explosion from Raiders of the Lost Arc. As an adult and with all the behind the scenes on how the effect was created I've come to have a huge amount of appreciation for that effect and the craft of making it.

[@TheBoogerJames]

The one that got me was the heart ripping scene from Temple of Doom. I was worried for a long time that would happen to me. 😂

[@christopher3226]

Same!

[@DezzieYT]

An effect in a horror film that freaked me out and gave me nightmares as a kid and still gives me goosebumps to this day is the scene in The Return of the Living Dead (1985) where the survivors encounter the zombie known as "Tarman" and he says, "More brains". *shudder* I would say my desire to understand SFX started there as I tried to quell my lingering fear by studying how they made the zombie.

[@fromthegamethrone]

My favourite Zombie of all time

[@DolpgirlAkaGina]

That one scene from Doctor Who, the empty child, where that elderly doctor grows a mask from nowhere scared me as a kid and to this day, I'm still scared of gas masks. It will never not haunt me.

[@BigSteve1997]

A movie that scared me as a kid was Small Soldiers, I don't know if there was a lot of CG in it but there is great puppetry to look at

[@SilasSeiler]

A scene that scared me as a child, was in the movie called 'The Others'. The mother comes into a room when the daughter is playing under a sheet with a toy, and then they do a reveal of what's actually under the sheet.

[@d-padnomad7671]

+1 for having them react to this. Didn't sleep well after that scene... Such a great example of a film being sparing with its scares and relying more on a slow build of tension throughout. Such an unsettling vibe throughout the whole movie.

[@FabrizioBianchi]

The scene that still gives me the chills to this day is the metamorphosis of Pinocchio's friend into a donkey in the Disney classic. Please ask an animator whether it is mostly the voice acting or if there are any animation tricks giving that incredible dramatic effect.

[@redndwhitee92]

I recently rewatched George of the Jungle and was blown away by the animations of Shep.

[@pablofernandez6789]

I’m so glad y’all brought baby’s day out back to my attention. It used to be my moms favorite movie to watch with me

[@katieelspeth2299]

Thank you for finally covering “Dark City”, this has been one of my favorite movies for ages! My dad saw it at a midnight screening, and then took me out to see it again the next night!

[@bananachild1936]

Jim Carrey's The Mask is one of my all-time favorite movies ever that I constantly came back to revisit once or thrice in a year. Finally we get to see some more love for its weirdly ahead of its time stunning VFX work.

[@josiahdavis8043]

Have u ever revisited it twice

[@call_me_ShockZz]

Lupin's transformation into a werewolf from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban scared the shit out of me as a child. I used to rewatch the movies all the time, but I did not enjoy that one scene, because it scared me every time regardless of how many times I had seen it.

[@LuisSierra42]

So good, Cuaron is known for those crazy camera/vfx shots

[@D0S81]

be thankful you never saw the wolf transformation in American Werewolf in London as a kid then. That scene put hairs on my chest, let alone his.

[@tomasrocha612]

You just unlocked a core memory I had. I also rewatched a lot of movies, and when I rewatched prisoner of azkaban I used to run away when that scene happened and then come back when Lupin stopped howling, it's funny because it gave me a lot of nightmares but I loved/love this movie

[@OriionCygnus]

If you think thats spooky check out the werewolf transformation scene from Silver Bullet in 1985

[@mattfox5095]

When I was a kid I used to be terrified by the final scene with Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

[@lonesock]

"When I killed your brother, I talked. JUST. LIKE. THIIIIIIS" aight I'm out gonna get me some juice and string cheese

[@TheMokeleMbembe]

Seconded

[@jgriffin9084]

THIS

[@shelbyvillerules9962]

4:41 The one scene from my childhood that instantly comes to mind for me is the scene in Superman 3 when the woman gets turned into a cyborg. That really used to give me the creeps as a kid.

[@lindseysimcox897]

OMG yes! My dad made the all white contact lenses the actress wore for that scene. He was always so proud of the film lenses he'd done but they were all so scary for me as a little kid.

[@alecshelmerdine5547]

That still scares me now

[@KeeganRobbins]

So nice to see Dark City finally getting some love! That movie is criminally underappreciated.

[@Triforcefilms]

Freakiest scene I remember as a kid, Is from "Return to Oz". Lots of great effects and practical's in that film, With the various Puppetted characters, but the Disembodied Heads of Princess Mumby.... screaming and turning as Dorothy Runs away.... That'll stick with me forever.

[@FabrizioBianchi]

That movie should have been rated R

[@Triforcefilms]

@@FabrizioBianchi lol, legit

[@vanrose9857]

I had heard about that scene from another kid in my school. I expected to be super creeped by it when I saw it, but it didn’t have the same impact. I guess I was overprepared!

[@apoclypse]

Dark City was so ahead its time just in-terms of visual. It's master class in visual effects of that time. Interestingly to save money The Matrix actually used some of the sets from that movie. That's why the two have such a similar aesthetic.

[@Seneca84]

Also, they used the same lady in charge of the design. The idea was to save money, as The Matrix had quite a small budget for a movie like that.

[@samsoulee]

NOOOO WAYYYY really !??? I always wondered why .

[@KaneLillywhite]

The scene that really freaked me out as a kid was in the the Fellowship of the Ring when Bilbo tries to grab the ring from Frodo and his face turns absolutely demonic! It still gives me jump scares 😆

[@pressedinproductions]

I believe they covered that on their LOTR episode

[@Toaster1111]

​@@pressedinproductions They have a LOTR episode???

[@adamheywood113]

If memory serves, one of the story ideas was something along the lines of showing Bilbo becoming more like Gollum They sculpted a bust of Ian Holm looking like that, they didn't use the idea in the end, but they used the bust to blend with Holm's face for that shot

[@eefneleman9564]

As a kid? Ok, I'm old now.

[@KaneLillywhite]

@@eefneleman9564 I was 11 years old 😂

[@amazedbrick72]

Something that scared the crap outta me when I was a kid was in the star wars prequels, the scene in attack of the clones where that bounty hunters face gets all shrunken an wrinkly, and from revenge of the sith when sidious let out the scream after he said 'its treason then"

[@mikecolts21]

Baby’s Day Out and The Mask were my childhood go to movies 🙌🏾

[@maisiesummers42]

So happy you looked at Dark City. That film is stunning in many ways, and a truly underrated horror/thriller. Some of the sets they made were reused for the first Matrix film.

[@ChanahAngelicaKamen]

It's really great how the CGI for The Mask moves like those old cartoons, there a lot of character and artistry in it.

[@AbsoluteTravisT]

I'm sure it's been said already but the weirdest part about the Baby's Day Out robot babies is that RedLetterMedia somehow own 3 of them now. Edit: I seem to be a top rated comment, thanks but go check out the actual scary animations replies they asked for too!

[@patrickmaybe2197]

lmfao

[@brandongers]

And one of the heads is falling off, lol.

[@drpibisback7680]

Oh shit, that's what Baby Bink was from!? I assumed it was a horror prop because the one they showed was so damaged...

[@AJ-nc4vr]

Four, if you include Rich Evans.

[@SoggyMicrowaveNugget]

@@drpibisback7680 IKR when I saw their prop it took me a while to find out it was from this lol

[@dampierre99]

Them talking about Dark City just brought back a deep and weird core memory of my childhood when I was watching that movie with my dad. Didn't even know the title of that movie until now

[@DavesFriends]

As a kid, the transformation scene from The Witches scared me so bad I ran screaming out of my 2nd grade classroom. The witch effects are creepy, but it was the kid transforming into the mouse that most scared the crud out of me

[@kellydaunis]

Same here

[@hannahross6853]

The scene that scared me as a kid was from Doctor Who. The empty child episode, season 1 (of the reboot) episode 9. The whole episode was creepy but the one scene was when the gas mask came out of their mouths and fused to their faces.

[@roberthaynes8830]

I loved the alien jungle in Planet of Evil. Now that was a story that always creeped me out when I was young.

[@michaeljaymarshall]

Did yall watch all of Dark City from start to finish?? That film was ahead of its time. A masterful mind-bending reality shifting achievement in science fiction noir that inspired and heavily influenced a lot of sci-fi we have today. Very underrated film.

[@MrMootheMighty]

I completely agree. Also a precursor to The Matrix in a way, and including themes established by Grant Morrison in his incredible graphic novel anthology "The Invisibles". It's rare to see a movie be such a perfect fusion of mind bending visuals and mind bending philosophy. Like you said....ahead of it's time.

[@SCharlesDennicon]

The marketing was awful, the studio didn't know how to sell it... then The Matrix got out... people kinda forgot about it. Another film that was outshined by the Matrix was The 13th Floor.

[@CalvinWitthoft]

Dark City beat Christopher Nolan to it 😆

[@KramSacul]

@@MrMootheMighty the Wachoski brothers borrowed a lot from Dark City. Sets, the lighting, etc. Made their own inferior version.

[@suspectizm]

Agreed 💯

[@SuperlunarNim]

I was always spooked by the scene in Willow when the sorceress turns the whole army into pigs. Also, there are some good(gross) stop-motion/animatronic effects with the trolls and battle in the ruined castle.

[@mrmatthews6315]

I've been aasking for dark City for ages and they finally did it! Such a great movie with incredible effects. Deeply underrated

[@StevenMadeja]

Awesome show as always! A scene that terrified me as a kid was the "Giant Mouse of Minsk" scene from An American Tail (1986). I think the animators actually rotoscoped a physical model of the "Mouse," and that along with all the fireworks and explosions just made it really eerie and effective.

[@Del129]

They should have got Mike Stoklasa on this episode, he is a Baby's Day Out super fan. He even owns some of the props responsible for the ground breaking effects!

[@ge2719]

that would be hilarious if one week theres just mike stoklasa in the middle of the couch, i don't know how much wisdom he could impart about visual effects, other than building and blowing up minatures, but it would definitely be hilarious. Then sam and niko have to be on a wheel of the worst.

[@UnironicScrotumhat]

@@ge2719 Honestly, them going over some effects shots from super low budget movies would be fucking amazing

[@davidsuperville7541]

I remember being skeptical about Dark City. The trailer made the pretentious claims that "man had no past, humanity had no future..." AND THEN ALL OF THAT WAS ACTUALLY ACCURATE!!

[@LuisSierra42]

It got overshadowed by the matrix

[@perrodetokio]

I unfortunately saw the one with the voice over explaining everything at the beginning of the movie. It ruined it for me. 😕

[@roskelld]

Went in blind to this movie at the theater and was totally blown away. When Matrix came out after and people were going nuts I was kinda left baffled as Dark City had already given me a similar brain melting experience.

[@DrAmazing]

For anyone who's going to check out Dark City for the first time. If you can, try to skip the first minute or so. For some reason it opens with the narrator basically explaining the whole plot, then a lot of the movie concerns the protagonist trying to figure out what's going on.

[@conradvonsydow2493]

@@DrAmazing Or just watch the director's cut. The took out that opening monologue. Much better version of the movie!

[@rand2400]

Wren is exactly right about the floating text shot. If you look at the shot, between the words 'and' and 'they', you can see a reflection of some equipment. You can also see at 14:29 where the second pane of glass stops moving, because the reflection disappears just before the second text comes on screen. So cool!

[@DudeBroMan]

A scene that destroyed me as a kid was 'the other side' elements appearing in the house of 'Poltergeist'. I only rewatched it years later as an adult and loved it since I understood how much of it was made.

[@sandwiched]

4:45 The movie that scared the crap outta < 10 year old me was Forbidden Planet. Specifically, the scenes with the monster trying to break into the laser fenced area, into the shuttered house, and melting through the door into the control room. Fun fact: Forbidden Planet was the 1st movie to use all electronic SFX and music. It was also animated by Disney animators.

[@lucas8913]

Alright, I don't see enough people commenting about the directing and specially the editing on these react videos. Good job to whoever does them!

[@MustertheBrohirrim]

All of Jim Henson work scared me as a kid. Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, and anything like never ending story. Those puppets and creature work absolutely terrfied me.

[@Rayzorbladez]

I don't know if it terrified me per se, but they definitely made me uncomfortable. That weird uncanny valley thing I guess.

[@TheBoogerJames]

not sure about scaring me, but I still have PTSD from that horse dying in Neverending Story

[@MustertheBrohirrim]

@@TheBoogerJames that didn't bother me so much. That wolf though..

[@essaysandmore]

That scene in Labyrinth where Sarah falls through the floor and a bunch of hands come out of the walls and start arguing with her was pretty nightmarish.

[@pvanukoff]

They just don't make movies like those anymore.

[@JustJoshTV]

Would be great to see Michael Jackson music videos. Both amazing practical and CGI effects. Ghosts, Remember The Time, Black Or White, Earth Song, Scream, to name but a few. This guy was doing Hollywood level effects in music videos! He worked with John Landis, Ray Winston, Martin FLIPPIN Scorsese, to name a few. This guy literally made music videos what they are today and was not held back by "it's just a music video" He wanted every video to be a "short film". I could be listing stuff for ages, but I'll save some for when I return in the next video. My guy turned into a giant mecha!!!!! Nuff said!

[@MiaogisTeas]

Is that a reference to Captain Eo? Haha

[@JustJoshTV]

@@MiaogisTeas The giant mech? No, Moonwalker. However Captain Eo is another great shout!

[@CharlesLaurita]

The practical effects in Mama still freak me out to this day, they’re absolutely horrifying

[@sergiogutierrez1409]

The scene that terrified me when I was a kid was the man faced dog in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I remember running out of the room screaming and crying. Of course, seeing it now I can see how they did it, but just the idea of a dog having a fully human face still freaks me out an bit.

[@igorbednarski8048]

Thank you for covering Dark City, it's an underrated masterpiece

[@silverblue73]

From the director of The Crow

[@devincook4263]

The beating of the drums in the original Jumanji were absolutely terrifying as a child. Just the though that something is coming and you can't do anything about it. The VFX certainly set the mood

[@silverblue73]

And that's just one reason why there will only ever be one Jumanji

[@aresmoriendi9449]

The Gmork from The Neverending Story. The slow camera move to the mouth of the cave, it's green eyes suddenly opening and glaring from the blackness, the lightening revealing it's twisted visage and bared fangs. That scene lived in my head when I lay in bed for years.

[@BlokedAgain]

Holy shit, yes! I had completely forgot about that film and scene. And now you've triggered a flood of memories. Yes. I hope they do NeS.

[@sophiestrauss1833]

The intro to Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities. So many incredible practical and vfx shots married together

[@Lonewolfpackleader]

Dunno if it's already been covered but something that scared the piss out of me as a kid was the Talos reveal from Jason and the Argonauts

[@doughall2932]

Yes, the stop motion somehow really added to the creepiness.

[@doublet147]

1st- THANK YOU for covering DARK CITY! I'm always surprised how many people are unfamiliar with this amazing film. 2nd- The Palm Beach Story was just covered by Film Riot (channel). I'm glad y'all dove deeper into it!

[@roberthaynes8830]

Yes, I love Dark City. It still holds up very well today too. So many cool scenes and ideas in it.

[@Lusitanean]

The matrix took some elements from this movie. They complement each other very well.

[@TheThird1977]

@@Lusitanean Inception too.

[@undefinedusername]

I saw it right when it came out 1998 and knew basically nothing about it. It's definitely one of those movies it's best to know nothing about when you watch it.

[@apathtrampledbydeer8446]

@@Lusitanean The beginning of The Matrix actually used some of the Dark City sets.

[@luispeset3083]

After all these years I think it's fair to say Corridor Crew has entertained and inspired a generation of VFX artists and lovers. I started with 3D modeling inspired mainly by this channel. Wouldn't it be cool to have a VFX Artists React to clips made by your followers? Lots of love from Spain ❤

[@blue_phoenix7488]

Hey man.. You know Clint? Former member of corridor crew... He actually has his own channel called "pwnisher" where he reacts to his followers cgi creations from the competition he conducts....

[@luispeset3083]

@@blue_phoenix7488 Hey man. Yeah, I follow him and I've seen some of his reactions. I think is very a cool concepts both for him and for his followers. Thanks for the recommendation anyways!

[@matthewwells2726]

There are a number of scenes in cutthroat island that you should take a look at. The scene where the water crashes through the window, the final battle scene, travelling through the village with the thief, and the quicksand scene are all pretty cool stunts.

[@HonestWatchReviewsHWR]

Dark City is so underrated. I love that film. Most people haven't even heard of it though, and react the pretty much the same way that Ren did.

[@kramermariav]

Same. I love Dark City. I've forced multiple friends to watch it, lol

[@HonestWatchReviewsHWR]

@@kramermariav Same here 😆

[@medalion1390]

The scene in Superman 3 where the lady gets turned into a robot! 😬

[@TheThird1977]

Dark City is one of my favourite movies; such a fantastic concept and execution, with great performances too. It walked to The Matrix and Inception could run.

[@danieldelpozo975]

Scene that scarred me for a good long time after seeing it as a kid was the end of Gremlins when Stripe pops out of the fountain after getting hit with bright light and is still "melting" from that and the water. Super intense as a child. And the VFX for that whole movie still hold up from nearly 40 years ago.

[@simondean5227]

I MENTIONED THIS EXACT SCENE TOO

[@danny96787]

Dark city for me is an amazing movie. One of my favorites

[@doublet147]

DREAMSCAPE (w/ Dennis Quaid) scared me as a little kid. It was old when I watched it but... there is a freaky morph of person to lizard person (among other crazy FX). It's about people hijacking other people's deams & killing them. It didn't age well but there is some great material to comment on! PUT ON AN EPISODE, YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED!!!😄

[@Laura_Norda]

The Mask is one of my all time favourite films!!! And you already covered the scene that scared me most as a kid a while back - the scene in Starman when he grows from a baby to full grown man in a matter of minutes!

[@i_am_ergo]

One of the best episodes in the series right here. Great movie choices, great references to past episodes and works not reviewed today. Even the sponsored segment was a treat. All around good stuff!

[@fkbuki]

I remember my mom LOVED Baby's Day Out, she cried laughing every time, god rest her soul.

[@fabriziopinna]

🕊

[@cenciende9401]

Why would you disrespect her with some cultist BS?

[@maeco7]

What scared me as a kid was the hall of heads and the Wheelies in Return to Oz. That was *not* a kids movie, imo. Had nightmares for years.

[@samuelfuhrman7330]

Two suggestions for you to investigate: The first comes from a low-budget French comedy from 1993 called “Les Visiteurs” (The Visitors). There’s a shot late in the second act featuring two characters played by the same actor (lots of split-screen composite shots) that kind of blew my mind. It starts out looking like a simple body-double shot, because one character has his back to the camera. But then the other character, facing camera, tosses a wet rag at the first, who then turns to camera, showing his face. It looked flawless, and I thought you could take a look. The second comes from Andor Season 1 Episode 6 “The Eye”. During the heist sequence, there’s a point where TIE Fighters are scrambled from a nearby airbase. There’s a very brief shot (only a handful of frames) of the interior of the TIE cockpit showing the pilot entering the ship, and their helmet is ABSURDLY oversized. It almost looks like it was digitally replacing a massive wig or hairdo. Theories?

[@JamesDavis-cl1nu]

I cant remember if it has already been covered in a previous ’artists react’, but the T-Rex scene in the original Jurassic Park gave me nightmares for months. I saw it in the cinema when I was 6! I have indescribable respect for that scene as an adult. Its filmmaking genius, still makes my jaw drop.

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

Dark City is such an incredibly underrated film, and was probably the inspiration behind Fringe, as there are a lot of similarities between the two!

[@GreyDevil]

One of the movies/scenes that scared me as a kid was the troll attack + transformation scene in Willow. Where Willow blasts a troll on an elevated bridge and it transforms into the dragon, it's a pretty nasty, gross and low key scary scene. And the effects are pretty amazing.

[@HorySmokes]

I'd have to say that Arnold in his missing eye make up near the end of The Terminator (when he's chasing Sarah in the tanker before it explodes) was the stuff of nightmares for me as a kid. To this day it holds up. Maybe even better than the make up in T2.

[@thinkatoz1851]

Scene that terrified me as a child was the reveal of Gmork from the Neverending Story

[@davidsilverman1741]

Hey there this is very cool for me because - I was the guy who brought up The Palm Beach Story question in the first place! It has been baffling me for years - and then I reached out to ILM on Twitter around January of 2022, and they reached out to Todd Vaziri. And he reached out to me after he posted about it 1/20/2022 (10:28). So -- I am very glad to bring it to your attention!

[@eugenesesmaiii3278]

The clown scene from Poltergeist gave me a persisting fear of clowns! 😱

[@nodisalsi]

Whoile farm of special effects in that movie I would love them to review!

[@kevinkorenke3569]

Poltergeist has always been to me one of the pinnacles of practical effects in movies.

[@chalion8399]

I'm glad you had Dark City to react to. I watched it in theatre when it released and the story and effects blew my mind, it was so good, so different.

[@VIRTUEL]

honestly that NODE baby's day out wink is what im here for. they've been going on about this movie for YEARS ahaha

[@mrx1333]

The Mask is such a great movie and i love the CG in it! The crew did a great job! As did Carey!

[@ag9953]

The amount of different effects that they used for Baby's Day Out is pretty impressive.

[@vishweshram5149]

I might know how The palm beach story scene was done. My grandma told me that her father (My Great Grandpa) worked in the movie industry in the 40's to 70's and she told me for scenes that have twin characters but one actor what they do is, they use trackmat for a consistent shot and place the actors in designated spots filming all the shots required in different negatives and they overlap the them to create it as such. So, maybe the seam you guys are seeing might be the films overlapping each other and a slight misalignment happening where the seam is present.

[@IVIegadude]

That sort of thing is pretty well known. What's crazy about this shot in particular is that the camera accelerates and decelerates as it's moving (and panning?). Without a computer, adding all those variables makes it impossible to humanly time the movement such that the two shots are (nearly) seamlessly put together. Just a minor change in speed, acceleration or panning gets magnified very quickly until the two don't appear to be in sync at all. You either need a computer perfectly replicating the movement (what we do now), or some ingenius mechanical contraption using timing mechanisms like inside a watch.

[@vishweshram5149]

What if a weighted pulley system was used like highlighted in the video? If the weight is the same as used for the previous shot then although it might not be near perfect but can somewhat achieve the same result as before.

[@IVIegadude]

@@vishweshram5149 if engineered and machined well enough that could totally work! After all, gravity is pretty reliably consistent and like they said, we do use pully systems to power grandfather clocks.

[@madjangler]

The transformation in American Werewolf in London gave me nightmares for years, but you may have covered it already. Terrifying.

[@Igor10977]

One of the scariest scenes I have watched was in the 2002 movie, Signs. It was the scene when they are watching alien footage from across the world. It seemed too real for me

[@ishaan863]

move children!!! vamanos!! Joaquin Phoenix in an underrated performance

[@LuisSierra42]

That scared the absolute shit out of me as a kid

[@MatthewB2142]

I came here to write this

[@TheJerbol]

That was Shyamalan at his best. One second of some grainy footage of a hard to see alien walking across the screen was the scariest part of the whole movie

[@nuxxism]

I owned the DVD and a younger friend came over to watch. I dropped him at his house after 11, and he had to walk 200m or so past a hedge on a breezy night to get there. He ran instead. 😂

[@ksnatikar]

Finally the reaction on THE MASK, what a master piece. I have been waiting for this from a long time. This movie was ahead of it's time, you should a full episode on the THE MASK

[@rsshieldsii]

The toilet monster scene in Look Who's Talking Too scared me as a child. Much to my family's displeasure, it scared me to the point of pooping with the door open for months.

[@coryhorton5837]

I love the point that Dark City just looks like what it’s supposed to be. Morphing buildings look like morphing buildings.

[@naterkane_also]

The transformation at the beginning of the Thriller video freaked me out when I watched it debut. I remember wanting to hide behind the sofa at my mom’s boyfriend’s house. I had never been exposed to anything close to horror (I’m still not a fan of anything but the campiest examples of the genre), and it was just too much for my 6-7 year old self.

[@ares395]

In 'The Mask' It was a superb decision to have the mask only at night so they could control the lighting very precisely. Such a great movie

[@wickedwookie]

Scene that freak me out as a kid was not a movie but the opening to unsolved mysteries from the 90s.

[@SKy_the_Thunder]

Scenes that scared me as a kid? Borg assimilation scenes from Star Trek TNG and Voyager. Body horror with a good helping of psychological horror rolled into one...

[@crapparc]

I find it far more interesting to see you analyze old (actually old, not 1990s old) movies that people don't even know how they were done any more than "modern" movies. You should totally do an entire episode (hell, a series of episodes) on them.

[@johnnhoj6749]

Up until at least the 1960s the different studios were very cagey about their techniques, as were the technicians. Special Effects, when they were talked about in public at at tended to be described in very vague terms. Partly filmmakers didn't want to spoil the illusions for the audience and partly any novel methods were often seen as trade secrets which gave them an edge over competitors.

[@tetsuoshima2314]

YES! I'm so glad you covered Dark City, one of the best movies ever and one of the few other good movies by Alex Proyas besides The Crow. Edit: scariest movies growing up, aside from the first Nightmare on Elm St., Jacob's Ladder and The Serpent and the Rainbow were two that freaked me the eff out.

[@roberthaynes8830]

Good choices.

[@synaesthesia2010]

the thing with The Mask, he is supposed to be a live action cartoon, so with the limitations we had with CG at the time, it actually works in the character's favour, which is why almost 30 years later, the film is still such a masterpiece

[@peterwgrayson]

Have you guys ever considered breaking down the opening future war scene from T2? Lots of practical effects mixed with amazing model work!

[@MrHabenero]

In the 1999 "The Mummy" Movie, there's the scene where all the characters are running for their lives to escape the Pyramid Temple, and the character "Beni Gabor" decided to get really greedy and try to steal a whole bunch of treasure from the Treasure Room. When the Room completely seals and he is trapped inside a humongous swarm of Scarabs comes out and begins devouring him. That scene really terrified me to my core as a child and I remember having multiple nightmares after seeing that movie of me being devoured alive by scarabs. I still to this day remember that scene and nightmare so clearly.