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6 Non-CG Movie Creatures That Will Give You Nightmares

Since the inception of CG into science fiction, fantasy, and horror films, movie creatures and creature design has taken a hit. That statement is not meant to disrespect any of the current slew of very talented CG artists out there today, but there is just something unnatural about shiny, CG monsters. They never have a real sense of physics to them. They always just ends up feeling like Roger Rabbit to me. Like someone carefully mixed animation and real acting to try to make one, fluid experience.

Pale Man – Pan’s Labyrinth

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Anyone who loves creature design and practical creatures has to know that creations like this would not be possible without “creature actor” Doug Jones. The actor plays Fauno/the Pale Man in this movie, and essentially, to monster nerds like us, Jones is a god.

Guillermo del Toro seems to know this and snatches him up any time he has a monster filled movie and needs a tall, thin, expressive man to embody those creatures and bring them to life.  Eventually, I’ll just write up a list of awesome Doug Jones creatures, so stay tuned for that.

But can we talk about the Pale Man for a second?

Everything about this character is exactly how we imagine monsters as a child. Disturbing, twisted, broken, and evil. Though we learn very little about the Pale Man in the film, we know you don’t fuck with his grub. You fuck with his grub and he will pop his eyes into his hands and shamble at you until you piss yourself in a corner.

In other words, this is movie creatures doing what they do best: scaring and scarring people.

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