PUMPKINHEAD - The "Making of" with Stan Winston's Creature FX Team 

100% with you on that.

Did you get to see "Annihilation"? The skull bear scene in that film I think is one of the more impressive examples of the use of animatronic + CG in recent film, and I think that from a visual effects standpoint, one thing that should always remain consistent in order to make an impact on the actor's performances and the audience's ability to tell if something is "real" or not is to make sure that the two (computer-generated & practical prosthetics and animatronics) are seamlessly blended, rather than one being used solely over the other.

Besides Kaiju like Godzilla

I know that feel bro... Horror movies nowadays are so lame and boring. They all look the same for me. And they look so fake, we don't even care about the fake CGI crap monsters. I feel sad for this generation too.

I absolutely agree with you!! That is something I've been saying for years! Any of the behind scenes featurettes you'd see from the late 70's and through the 80's, you'd see the effects team workshop filled with all these fantastic creatures and weird characters and the sheer effort and love that goes into making them! ILM was one such place, whereas now it's a bland office space filled with people sitting at computers and animating things, It's soulless!! These days there's guys in motion capture suits leaping around going RAAARRR only to be animated in later, it's laughable!! I also remember seeing an online article for Giant Freakin' Robot or something along those lines for the proposed remake of "The Creature from the Black Lagoon!" (Which John Carpenter was going to direct in the early 90's, his script is online too apparently!) However, this article showed a creature design and the author of the article said "If Universal could get behind this with some serious CGI, this will be awesome!" WHY??? CGI is not fucking scary, if anything it takes you out of the physicality of the scene!! When an effect is 'In Camera' it grounds you in the illusion, there's a physical presence! Jaws, Pumpkinhead, Alien, the Werewolf from American Werewolf in London, John Carpenter's The Thing, Predator to name but a few all have memorable monsters because they were slap bang in front of us, they interacted with the cast and these fuckers had a nightmarish presence! When practical special effects are on set, it gives the actors something to react to, it drives their performance and makes their plight to survive all the more exciting for us, the audience, to be drawn in! CGI does have its uses, granted but practical special effects will always be superior due to the emotions they illicit from us and our nightmares. The scene with Pumpkinhead leering into the kid's face in the wardrobe with his drooling, twisted smile has stuck with me since I was an 11 year old kid back in '87! I even showed some of my younger workmates the Chest ripper scene and Blood test scene from The Thing, they were opened mouthed and were saying "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?" later, they came up asking me about more films like that, I told them to look up Pumpkinhead first!! Old school movie monsters fucking rule!!!

Charlie Mills they should banned cgi

CGI should be only used when it's *NECESSARY* and *impossible to do pratically not oversaturating them. Rendering the texture to make it look very realistic takes time, talent and money. You don't want to use up all of your budget and the studio may not be giving anymore money if they see the cost overruns.

Thanks for the kind words. I hope you told your friend that Pumpkinhead was REAL! - David

Stan Winston School for my money legends have start somewhere and continue for some reason, If nothing else Stan and his crew of awesomeness brought it to life for a number of us.

***** You've got great taste! -Maggie

It takes time to render those textures to make it look very realistic and that costs time, manpower and money. You need to properly distribute your budget as the studio may not giving any more of it.

James Cameron should direct it.

BoglinZilla, The poem that started it all. Glad to have you here on our RU-vid channel! - Matt

Stan Winston School I love the premise of the movie. With a solid story it can only get better. If i recall Pumpkin head was basically vengeance incarnate, so not likely your going live to regret such a thing. Gore is not always needed for a properly executed traumatic childhood scare. lol.

Bolted doors and windows barred Guard dogs prowling in the yard Won't protect you till you're dead Nothing will from Pumpkinhead.

Speak the devil, word has it that there's a reboot in the works, I'm initially skeptical but hopeful that they can pull it off.

We'd also like to see that, done right, *****. - David

After some time the producer of Saw has acquired the Rights to produce a reboot. Here's hoping he involve Legacy Effects the team who've worked with Stan Winston on his original classic to do the creature effects on the new film. bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3401637/saw-producer-remake-pumpkinhead/

Hes real. He lives deep underground.

DARK RIDE N.O.W. me to but i dont wanna meet him

Look up Donald Marshall i believe it he came from hell

spyderskiss Have you looked at SWS website? I'm sure they could recommend any one of the DVD's, It's what i am doing in place of an actual brick n mortar school. They even have i'm sure noticed live webcam classes. True spirit of Dick Smith.

We were there when it was being made, and it still scares us! - David

Stan Winston School I can feel you, hehe.

Stan Winston School CGI causes anaconda to fly and lake placcid aligator runs like roided michael johnson, too many movie sequels got destroyed by cgi that older generations will not watch movies in cinema anymore.

+GIGGEDandBLADED Okay, you got me there. That, or I should have included continuations in my list. This is news to me, though. Around the time I wrote that comment, the last anyone heard of Star Wars, even Yoda had gone digital.

+GIGGEDandBLADED Okay, you got me there. That, or I should have included continuations in my list. This is news to me, though. Around the time I wrote that comment, the last anyone heard of Star Wars, even Yoda had gone digital.

+GIGGEDandBLADED Okay, you got me there. That, or I should have included continuations in my list. This is news to me, though. Around the time I wrote that comment, the last anyone heard of Star Wars, even Yoda had gone digital.