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Puppets, Prosthetics, and Bubblegum: How They Did The Chest Chomp Scene in The Thing
Welcome to How’d They Do That? — a bi-monthly column that unpacks moments of movie magic and celebrates the technical wizards who pulled them off.
As far as gobsmacking creature effects are concerned, John CarpentersThe Thingis in a league of its own.
It is the holy, gore-soaked church of sci-fi horror. And you cant properly praise The Things FX makeup without paying dues to Rob Bottin, the wiz-kid heir apparent to the mentor-mentee lineage of Dick Smith and Rick Baker, whose abrupt exit from the industry in the early s remains one of Hollywoods great mysteries.
Bottin, a huge Halloween fan, met Carpenter on the set of The Fog. He was tasked with creating a number of make-up designs, including the worm-headed ghost who attacks Carpenters then-wife Adrianne Barbeau on the roof of the radio tower.
After making a name for himself on Joe Dantes The Howlin