DEATH BECOMES HER Recreating Meryl BTS Special Edition 

Imagine how awesome it would've been to be an F/X guy during the 1980's and 1990's. Those two decades (along with the latter years of the 1970s) are practically the Golden Age of special effects - animatronics, props, set design, model design, costume design, you name it. Fantastic industry, and great, great, totally EPIC stuff came out of it during those years.

Meryl Streep was actually a robot, so many questions answered

Ernest... Erneeeeeeeest.... you pushed me down the stairs! LMAO!! Gotta love this movie. I watch it about twice a month with my mum in the livingroom after dinner, hahaha

I watched this movie in the theater and have seen it multiple times on video.. I had no idea it was an animatronic.. kudos to you guys, you are amazing.

That was both incredibly awesome and incredibly creepy!

This is actually insane for the time. Well done!

the animatronic head can speak,looks hyper realistic! great artwork!

"You're in the shit house now, pal!"

Oh, that's one of my favourite movie! I thought that that part was the real actress with some montage magic, I would never guess it was an animatronic puppet!

Wow! My all time favourite movie. Thank you so much for uploading this, there's so little behind the scenes footage out there for this gem. I've seen a couple of stills and a few short clips of this particular animatronic, but never this much. So good to still be surprised by new video material 24 years after the movie was released. And you even get a short glimpse at the Goldie animatronic with the hole in stomach. Stellar work on both of them. The CG, practical and animatronic special effects work was rightfully awarded an Oscar back in the day, and it has aged so well and still manages to impress, even by today's standards. Many thanks again for sharing this!

Earnest You pushed me down the Stairs. LOL!

freakin love this movie, its creepy especially the floating nuns but at the same time the movie is sending a message about life not to mess with it

One of my favorite movies since I was a child (I am age 32 going on 33 this year)! So cool to see the animatonics. Thank you for posting. :)

One of my favorite movies of all times!

Wow I didn’t know they had to go through all that trouble! I heard they eventually resorted to CGI because the animatronics were too obvious in the film. The movie won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects!

This movie is definitely legendary. The craft behind it is empicable.💛💛💛

Those 26 dislikes were the people at Ernest's funeral.

...and that's how you win a #Oscar .

Love this movie!! Didn't know this much work though. Great works guys!!!!!!

this is one of my favorite Meryl Streep movies I literally just got done watching it... This is an awesome Recreation

Shame they didn't use this animatronic in the final cut, This would have been creepy as fuck, having an inanimate object move and walk up to you and talk to you. Seeing it in action it genuinely looks like a walking dead entity.

Aaaaaamazing work, just the detail alone... astounding. Now I really cannot wait to see the Scream Factory blu-ray of this horror classic!!! Studio ADI are the best there is. #screamfactory

Haven't seen this backstage before! This is Awesome!!! I love this movie.

Eeeernest...

When Meryl dies, her relatives can have this, so she stays with them forever!

Absolutely amazing.

Damn, this shit is eerie... then again so was the movie.

I thought it was just done in post production in editing I never would of guessed it was a robot good job

AMAZING! have always wondered how they did some of the broken neck effects :)

What a fun job!!!

Thats just amazing!

wow amazing, sorry to hear mr winkless passed, he did some amazing work

Crazy that this movie ever got made. 😍

Incredible!

this is so F'n cool!!!!

This is amazing

Wow such a hard work 👏

Wow it looks great

i'd love to see a full graded version of this scene with the animatronic as comparison.

I love it it's the best movie ever & who's watching in 2016

brillant film ❤☘🍀❤

Das ist sooooo gruselig!

92년의 헐리우드 특수효과 기술.정말 대단해요!!!

Creepy but amazing!

Great work

I watched this movie when i was in elementary school and it was 10 years ago...

This is fascinating--and sobering. Unless I'm mistaken, 95% of what they're working on was scrapped and replaced by CGI. All of the Boop-Boop-Boops were wasted time as none of the robot lip syncing made it into the final film. The big question is: What happened to all of those artificial Meryls?

Kind of wish they used more of the animatronics, even if it didn’t look as realistic it would have given it a creepier atmosphere in a The Thing kind of way.

love will lead to the most precious shadow

Genius!

omg I only noticed that their eyes were brighter and thought maybe they had contacts in these scenes. NEVER imagined this was going on lol

00:53 lol I love how she yells at him throughout the whole movie. lol

What a funny is Sophie was only made today. When the world already has androids living among us. This was way ahead of its time. We have been decisbes

Amazing but disturbing at the same time!

0:59..... AHHHHHHH!!!!

That weird chin-mointed contraption for controlling the mouth movement - Would mocap be used nowadays instead for animatronics too?

Wait! So Meryl Streep was a robot? Wow, I just watches this movie recently and I couldn't tell wow!

The 2nd AI in movies for me back in the day , but these two AI’s robots went undetected. I saw the making of death becomes her on ET. My first AI robot experience was in an 80s movie I think named , deadly friend, when I girl was an AI and then Short circuit.

Fucking fantastic man Jesus....

She’s kind of amazing I mean it doesn’t seem that far behind from what people are doing today with robot

😍😍😍

They still covered most of this up with visual effects and motion control though. :\

hey studioADI I was wondering how do you get all of this footage to show on your channel?

5:10 was there any need for that trumpet?!! My ears 😱😊

wait I thought they used a green screen on her face for that scene. not a model. How did they make it so real? or did they put her face on it using cgi? then why did they need the face movements?

So, I am guessing that they didn't end up using this animatronic for the speech parts in the final film? Mery's face in this scene in the film is definitely not animatronic. The animatronic is impressive but it seems like a really over-complicated way to do this effect.

The creepiest part has finally revealed 😱😲😰😧😨😭

That was so creepy i am dead 😂

Adamların 90lı senelerde ulaştıkları teknolojiye bak vah ülkem vah diyesi geliyo insanın

Ernest.....Ernest! lol

Early Sophia, the robot.

Still think they don’t have body doubles guys?

Very scary

The made the right decision when they ended up mostly using CGI. The puppet doesn't have enough facial articulation.

AAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

Excellent choice to not use animatronics and go with makeup, blue screen and CGI. The end results was something that has never been done and a dope AF movie. Feel bad though for all the engineers. Hopefully they used that robot on another movie.

Terjawab sudah pertanyaanku selama puluhan tahun.

Now a warning!

😲😲😲😲😲

All that work for it to NOT be in the movie!

The effort and talent. Considering this is 30 years ago. Wow. Today's cheap looking cgi could never

Gli americani sono il popolo più super del mondo♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

01:00 Meryl Screep 😂😂😂.

I read that they had to jettison these and use CGI

you cant recreate meryl.......nothing can be as good😂

That's creepy as fuck

So creepy

Too bad the upper face didn't move at all, kind of ruined the effect.

This doesn't look that great tbh. She's shouting, but her lips are whispering.

That looks so fake!

All this time I thought it was blue screen.