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This is how gore is done.


I miss 80's gore and horror SPFX. I saw this and American Werewolf in London for the first time in a long time today, and it reminded me what an art form this stuff was back then.

...then whoa, differences...

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It's just like rock'n'roll. Now that they've started creating it with computers, the soul of the art form has very nearly died.

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Is this the film where a slime creature rips/melts a man's face off? I think this is it.

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Well, there's certainly a slime creature, but it doesn't exactly melt a guy's face off. It does however grab a guy by the face and pull him down a sink drain.

There IS a scene in The Fly 2 where the fly spits acid on a guy's face and it melts off (a pretty great effect actually).

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Thanks Joe. Much appreciated.

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No problem. There's also a scene in the movie where a girl's face is half-melted in the theater. Pretty much, a lot of melting going on.

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LOL. Very gooey!

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