Top 10 10 Practical Movie Effects (Most Realistic / Horror)

keep absolutely still this vision is based on movement welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for incredible practical effects from pre 2000's films that are still impressive [Music] today number 10 the jog 2001 A Space Odyssey we are all by any practical definition of the words foolproof and incapable of error Stanley Kubrick's seminal film proves it doesn't take fancy CGI to make a truly convincing sci-fi movie the famous but simple scene where one of the astronauts jogs around the outer part of the ship centrifuge was done by staging the camera in

a large rotating set the result is a convincing illusion where the camera seems to follow and stay ahead of the runner cubrick had to get creative and is used of practical effects to simulate both weightlessness and artificial gravity and the result is a space epic that's still extremely impressive today open the pod bay doors hell I'm sorry Dave I'm afraid I can't do that number nine Fountain of blood A Nightmare on Elm Street whatever you do don't fall asleep this scene was a bloody nightmare all right this classic slasher film directed by Wes Craven contains

tons of truly gruesome killings for Glenn's death however something extra was needed imagine it's like a lottery drum and there a platform with guys waiting at the top the drum turns and when it hits the mark boom and that's the bed when Glenn falls asleep he sucked through a hole in his bed and a geyser of blood then spews out to make it happen Craven built the set on a gimbal once he flipped it upside down the crew dumped hundreds of gallons of red dyed water through the hole the effect wasn't without its dangers the

water reportedly caused the set to spin unexpectedly and made a huge mess at least they got a truly iconic shot out of it what the hell did that Lieutenant I don't know was a carer got to say he's in the jaw and puking since he saw it number eight melting head Raiders of the Lost Arc Marion don't look at it shut your eyes Marion don't look at it no matter what happens speaking of nightmare fuel the first Indiana Jones film definitely has its share seeing Nazis die on screen via Divine wrath is always a thrill

but one gruesome death deserves special attention for its practicality first Steven Spielberg's special effects team made a rubbery mold of actor Ronald Lacy's head the shot required Ronnie Lacy to have a facial cast and that's I've had that done myself and it's no fun from this mold they carved a skull from Stone and covered it in layers of gelatin which they then melted using propane heaters and a heat gun once achieved the melting mold was overlapped with footage of lacy screaming the 1981 film scanner similarly used gelatin molds over a fake skull in their famous

exploding head scene now that is truly creative filmmaking and all without CGI and I was amazed especially at The Melting head I thought that was one of the most amazing effects I'd ever seen number seven the final fly the fly I'm becoming brundlefly don't you think that's worth a Nobel Prize or two even decades later this transformation scene is still stomach Jing after a slow deterioration resulting from a botched experiment Seth brundle finally transforms into a gruesome human fly hybrid to achieve the effect the makeup and special effects team went to town on Jeff Goldblum

using prosthetics for his growing deformities I'm saying I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man I loved it but now the dream is over a final stage of the the fly is actually a series of Puppets maneuvered by cables and rods a puppet was also used in the fly's death when he's fused with the telepod the team won a well-deserved Academy Award for best makeup for their efforts to turn brundle into the brundlefly my teeth have begun to fall out the medicine cabinet is now the brundle Museum of Natural History you want to see

what else is in it number six the White House Independence Day time's up the explosion of the white house in Roland Emer film is still as shocking as it was in 1996 a large plaster model of the building was constructed for the shot which was decorated with dollhouse furniture inside to ensure that the debris looked realistic once done the team put 40 explosives around the model this model probably cost in excess of $50,000 I get one shot at it the actual detonation was over in just under a second but Emer used a high-tech camera to

capture it in gorgeous slow-mo the director has since made a career out of destroying major landmarks on film but none have quite the impact of that Independence Day scene number five mirror shot Terminator 2 Judgment Day can you learn stuff that you haven't been programmed with so you can be you know more human not such a DK all the time making Arnold Schwarzenegger's head peelable is no small feet and to this day the scene where Sarah Connor takes out the t800s microchip in front of a mirror still looks remarkably convincing the mirror is actually a

window with Arie sitting behind it facing the camera while Linda Hamilton works on a dummy head doesn't want you to do too much thinking huh no can we reset the switch Hamilton's twin sister lesie was brought on to play Connor's reflection and the two had to mirror each other's movements exactly it was an extreme extremely clever piece of special effects trickery that left viewers totally baffled no no out of my way John don't kill him number four the shuftan process [Music] Metropolis you know you've made it as a visual effects artist when a whole process

gets named after you created by cinematographer oan shifton the most iconic use of it was in the classic German film Metropolis the shifton process involves using plate glass and mirrors to create the illusion that miniature models are actually full-sized sets it even enables the filmmakers to make it look like people are moving inside the miniatures by the mid 20th century the process was replaced by blue screens and other types of special effects but when it comes to small effects that can achieve big results few can best the shifton process [Music] number three transformation An American

Werewolf in London stay on the road keep glar of the Moes thank you this scene alone took an entire week to shoot after protagonist David gets attacked by a wolf he begins to have strange dreams and if you've seen the title of the movie you know what comes next director John Landis put months of preparation into David's transformation into the titular Beast the film's crew created multiple different prosthetic heads and limbs to use at different stages of the metamorphosis the hair growth was filmed in Reverse with the crew trimming it between shots and running the

footage backward to make it look like it was growing Landis also employed stopmotion animation and even animatronic devices all these combined techniques make the seen incredibly visceral and convincing number two the T-Rex Jurassic Park T T-Rex mhm you said you've got a T-Rex even decades later Spielberg's iconic sci-fi Masterpiece still astounds audiences with its realistic special effects the film relies heavily on practical effects with only 6 minutes of CGI making it into the final cut the dinosaurs were created almost entirely using detailed fullscale animatronics including the massive T-Rex no wonder the kids look so convincingly

terrified they're reacting to an actual life-size dinosaur not a green screen as for the T-Rex's bone rattling Roar the film used recorded vocals of a tiger alligator and even a baby elephant the result is a staggeringly realistic dinosaur before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one baby Xenomorph alien I don't want to

talk about what a video I'm eating this what's the matter the food ain't that bad baby of course course we must talk about the most realistically gruesome scene of all the xenomorph is one of the most recognizable and terrifying movie Monsters thanks to the excellent design talents of HR Giger he along with the rest of the design team made the creatures come to life move D move D get out no not that way the other way gigar designed the chest burster puppet himself although his original idea went through some revision before it was implemented similar

puppetry was also employed in the thing for the peeling dog effect while the actors and alien knew about the puppet they had no clue about the fake blood squibs hence their real life alarm thanks to giger's expertise the scene became one of the most memorable in cinematic history a worm a worm in some yeah a worm in in a in a living body oh which practical effect still has you ooing annoying let us know in the comments down below boy no head being right all the time my God welcome to watch Mojo and today we're

counting down our picks for the top 10 practical effects in horror movies hi it's me Chucky what do you think for this list we'll be looking at the best most believable or iconic examples of practical effects found within horror movies do you have a personal favorite let us know in the comments number 10 the shark jaws it's well-known movie Law at this point that Steven Spielberg and crew had one heck of a time getting the shark affectionately named Bruce to operate correctly on the set of Jaws this shark swallow you home shaking tenderizing down you

go the issues was so severe in fact that spilberg was forced to hold back on showing the final special effects which succeeded in building up the tension towards a final reveal and to be honest we actually think Bruce looks pretty good that's a 20 footer 25 three tons on worries about the shark looking fake certainly seem to melt away during scenes such as the first onscreen appearance or the harrowing demise of Quint late in the film Jaws is considered an all-time classic for a reason and one of those reasons is certainly Cinema's favorite shark you

yell shark we've got a panic on our hands on the 4th of July number nine digestion death The Blob there are few horror remakes from the 1980s that have held up as well as 1988's the blob the thing on that man's hand killed him and then it killed Paul and whatever it is it's G getting bigger in fact many fans of the genre point to this entry as perhaps the finest example of the titular creature on screen it's difficult to argue this point when the gross special effects are on display such as the graphic digestion

of Paul early on in the film doctor come in here quickly I'm with a patient there's a man dying in here hurry excuse me a moment the violence of his death is so brutal and realistic that it becomes difficult to even associate this version with the 1950s counterpart at the same time the willingness of director Chuck Russell and crew to absolutely go for it with this level of gross alien slime consumption has made the blob the stuff of horror Legend I did see your dad killed Paul shff how about it her can we take her

home now yeah you may as well Tom and make sure she gets a good sleep huh number eight Chucky Charles play the production of 1988's Child's Play is another example where restraint and tension actually led to the final effect being all the more impressive the movie takes a while in building things up to the point where Chucky actually moves speaks and comes alive while in the presence of an adult up until that point the potential for it all to actually be just the figment of a child's imagination is plausible now you don't really think that

Chucky is alive do you however once we watch Chucky's scurrying feet see those dangerous hands and hear the iconic voice from Brad durf it's official a full-fledged horror icon is born seriously the puppeteering and animatronics on display are topnotch number seven the shunting Society you may be asking yourself what the heck is a shunting to which we'd reply you're going to be sorry you asked after the first chunting we'll have that special treat we've been hearing so much about that's because this Infamous sequence from the 1989 body horror flick Society is the stuff from which

perverse nightmares are born special effects Guru screaming mad George achieves here some sort of absorptive body melding as high society aliens suck out nutrients from their victim in perhaps the grossest way possible [Applause] there's an almost gleeful humor to the scene as classical music accompanies a symphony of slurping noises all while George's sticky special effects work their magic don't say we didn't warn you you know you really deserve what's going to happen to you you know what's going to happen you're going to make a wonderful contribution to Society number six Henrietta noi Evil Dead 2

the first installment of Sam ry's Evil Dead franchise boasts some serious special effects particularly When taking into account the director's limited budget why have you disturbed our sleep awakened us from our ancient Slumber that said there's a marked improvement with the sequel as evidenced by this fantastic bit of work from special effects designer Tom Sullivan the director's brother Ted Ry assisted in the production in bringing Henrietta noi to Life playing the woman with with heavy makeup as her deadite form becomes more progressed elsewhere actor Lou Hancock plays Henrietta in her first deadite form although we

admit to being partial to the creature going full goose neck as it were showcasing firsthand Sullivan's imaginative [Applause] Creations number five Glenn's death and Nightmare on Elm [Music] Street the world of special effects is full of questions like how did they do that The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise has been front and center for a number of such questions such as the time when the third installment shoves poor Jennifer into a television this is it Jennifer your big breaking key me perhaps even more impressive however is the iconic bed scene from the first film where

a young man gets sucked into his mattress never to return that is unless you're counting the geyser of blood that shoots out onto the ceiling in which case Glenn Lance most definitely returned to make an impression just not the impression he likely intended was a carer got to say he in the giant puking since he saw it number four chest burster alien directors will often try a number of different approaches with actors all in order to achieve that one perfect take I don't want to talk about what it's I'm e this what's the matter the

food Ridley Scott tried something with the iconic chess burster scene from the first alien film in that he didn't actually tell the cast What specifically to expect as a result the reaction of actors like Veronica cart rights are very real and very effective as the whole cast got to view this tiny Xenomorph burst out of poor John her's chest got to have something to eat before we go one more meal before bedtime I'm buying hey has a bre it's Grim goopy and never fails to grab our attention each and every time as for cartright maybe

she would have liked the Space Balls variation a wee bit better hello my baby hello my honey hello number three brundlefly the fly the cinema of body horror Maestro David Cronenberg is littered with examples of special effects Brilliance help me help me to be human one of these is the head explosion against which all others are measured from 1981's scanners elsewhere the amazing makeup effects used on Jeff Goldblum in cronenberg's remake of The Fly stand as some of the finest ever achieved I'm saying you of this day Goblin appears practically unrecognizable as Seth brundle messily

devolves into brundle fly he gains super strength sure but soon pieces of him are starting to fall off and that acidy spit sure doesn't look too Pleasant finally the transformation is complete and the fly's grotesque final form is revealed I'm afraid don't be afraid no be afraid be very refy number two transformation sequence An American Werewolf in London we just mentioned how cronenburg perfected the subtle art of head explosions with scanners but what about werewolf Transformations I'm Cinema is populated by excellent examples from Universal's original Beast to Joe Dante's impressive werewolves in the howling but

and this is a very big butt all of them need to take a knee and bow their Collective heads to the alpha of this wolf pack An American Werewolf in London help me help me director John Landis and special effects Legend Rick Baker constructed a transformation sequence that not only looks scary but looks painful it convincingly depicts the horror of physically transforming from man to Wolf in Bon stretching detail it's simply the best to ever do it the goat of wolves if you will before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring

the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your set settings and switch on notifications number one all of it the thing it's difficult narrowing down one specific special effects moment from John Carpenter's 1982 Masterpiece the thing I don't know what the hell's in there but it's weird and pissed off whatever it is this remake of the thing from another world remains leagues away from its 1950s predecessor in terms of special effects

thanks to a couple of certified Legends Rob Bine and Stan Winston the entire team created Cinema magic with nightmare imagery such as the dog thing early on in the film as well as the disgusting sequence where an assimilated Norris is defibrillated with harrowing [Applause] results the thing may have flopped during its initial run but today it's thankfully being adorned with all of its proper genre accolades it may just be the finest EX example of practical effects ever laid on film when this thing attacked our dogs it tried to digest them absorb them did you enjoy

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