Rick Baker Mutant Mask from American Werewolf in London!
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Here's one of the most iconic creatures from horror movie history: Rick Baker's mutant demon from the memorable nightmare sequence in An American Werewolf in London! Adam gets to take a look at this well-preserved latex mask for the helmeted demon, kept by Rick Baker and now apart of the upcoming Prop Store EMLA auction. We get up close to the striking details of the sculpt, which have held up incredibly well over four decades!
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You know if you did a split screen , or Picture in Picture of the head, Adam wouldn’t have to keep straining himself to see it during the video.
Fun fact: UA-cam initially demonetized this video for "disturbing content."
Fun fact, just misread this comment as "demonised" 😂
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Still THE best werewolf transformation scene in film history.
No argument there
Absolutely! CGI just doesn't come close! I'd go as far as to say best werewolf film ever made. Gave me nightmares as a kid 🤣
Howling would be #2
STILL the BEST Werewolf movie in film history!
@@nasanodia736 debatable
I first tried to watch American Warewolf in London at a friend's house when I was about 11. The dream sequence with this monstrosity bursting in was the point that I had to make my excuses and leave... utterly terrifying. It's haunted me ever since (I'm now in my 40s!) 😂
think the soundbyte is the same one as used in warlords of atlantis ?!
Funny Adam should say that he showed the film to his kids and they didn’t appreciate it much. I was about 10 when I came downstairs for some water and my parents were watching it. I seen in full detail the wolf attack on Jack. Fucking shit scarred me for life. I’m now 32 and I’m still shit scared of that god damn werewolf, creeps me out like nothing ever has.
I saw it on pirate video at my friend's house when I was about 10 in 1984. Scared the shit out of me. Still does, although I can enjoy it too!
You'll be fine. Just stick to the roads. Stay off the moors.
Rewatching it, I was surprised at how slow the overall transformation was, around 3 mins I think. We're so used to these beats now that they tend to drag. We expect a quicker reveal.
I saw it on video in 1986. My dad, an engineer, was adamant about me seeing such things & understanding none of it was real. And I absolutely loved it. I'm 37 now and still love that werewolf! Even have a Slaughtered Lamb T-shirt.
@@hazonku You were two years old?
I got the NECA figure of this guy a week ago. The box actually says "Nightmare Demon" (I guess to avoid controversy), and it comes with 3 interchangeable heads of the other demons in the scene.
I also pre-ordered their Kessler Werewolf figure which looks insane.
The dream scenario is one of the scariest scenes I’d watched as a kid along with the thing
Rick Baker and Rob Bottin were masters of their art. The organic look of these creatures just cannot be captured in CGI.
Well it can now, but the VFX world is all about time crunch so digital sculptors just don't get the time SFX artists would get back in the day. Hopefully with virtual sets becoming more prevalent and bringing VFX more into the pre production and production stages we'll finally get to see CGI artists shine. Gotta keep in mind Rick is HUGE in the Zbrush scene and has won awards there too for his work inspiring and assisting the CGI community. Rick is an amazing digital artist as well.
One of my all time favorite masks
I was 11 when i first saw this movie and it gave me nightmares for about 2 years after, i still find it a little intimidateing today. great prop and artwork.
Mom and Dad took me and my brother to see this on the big screen when we where young teens. Dad would hide for months afterwards to jump scare us. To hear Mom yell at him while being scared and laughing at the same time. A great memory. I remember this scene vividly.
His daughter's makeup for this past Halloween May be some of his best work.
From an archival perspective, I hope someone is laser scanning these so there's at least a 3D model of it to reference in later years. it would also be cool from a model makers perspective to have legit 360 degree reference art.
actually - good thinking bud :) :)
Oh wow .. that is so amazing !!! that scene terrified me as a kid when I first saw it .
40 years later and still in such great condition, outstanding. That movie was the sh*t back in the day.
Greetz from Germany.
I vote we go back to the Slaughtered Lamb.
edit- and RIP Rik Mayall
Remember the Alamo!
Ps I bet your wearing a smashing blouse
I would like it if you got the season of the witch masks and/or the mask of the Vietnam guy from the movie house.
That's a super cool mask
I found a mask at a local horror / holloween supply party store and already had military clothing and a flat black German ww2 helmet and tryed to go as this same monster at a couple of large malls . I even made my own monster hand gloves to go along with the costume . people loved it
Best double jump scare in a movie.
Your nightmares friend reminds me of the villain in the '80s horror movie house starring The greatest American hero guy as the well hero, and bull from night Court has the villain.
AFAIK Vaders helm was inspired by the helmets and face masks worn by Samurai.
John Landis' son Max may do the remake. He did a great job with Dirk Gently
Yeah.... not likely. Max is a figure they call "problematic" in the industry.
I can hear that mask. I'd bet it's been 30 years or better since I last saw AWL, but I can still hear that mask.
I once had a debate about what each Nightmare Demon represented with a group of friends. Firstly they were Nazis because David & Jack were both Jewish guys back packing thru Europe. My contention was that the one shown here represented Jack as he was killed by the wolf- being it was a Werewolf but a decayed one, as Jack was dead.
The Werewolf headed one represented David and his foreshadowing fate. The Bald Demon represented the Bald Old dude and the generally unpleasant welcome they received at the Slaughtered Lamb by its patrons and the fact he was the one who stood out the most among them, and warned David & Jack about sticking to the road & keeping clear of the Moors.
The Bearded Demon represented the state he was caught in between-Man & Monster.
Oh, the things you come up with after a few beers.
I need this!!
I begged my mom to take me to see this while it was still in theaters, I was 12. She agreed... we had to leave some time during the transformation. I didn’t watch the full transformation until I was 18 😂 This is a true horror film. It stands the test of time. As a kid I loved the monster matinee on Saturdays. I was a fan of horror.... classic horror that is.... this was the first graphic movie for me and the loss of a likable character in the beginning was very new to me. No Abbot and Costello here... LOL. My mom and I still laugh about this.
Still the best, imo, werewolf horror film of all time. The practical FX used are beyond compare, especially the ingenious use of air bladders for the transformation scenes. It's a marvelous night for a moondance....
I thought Vader's helmet was influenced by a Samurai's helmet because Star Wars was also inspired by "Seven Samurai" ?
More like the hidden fortress, and there's elements of both
I love the fact that the teeth are virtually the same as on the wolf. Great physical foreshadowing/conditioning.
Forty years later and still the best werewolf transformation and design.
The pattern for Darth Vader's helmet was taken from the Samurai helmet that the bandit leader in "Seven Samurai" wore.
At age 13 I went to see AWWIL in the theater when it was released. From the get-go when David and Jack ver off the road...whew, holy hell that was intense! At one point I had to remove myself from the theater I was so freaked out. lol. The nightmare within a nightmare sequence was brilliant!
I kept expecting Rick to walk in from the side of frame a say "hey, I remember that!)
Lovely to see that this mask is so well preserved. Both this and the bald one had to do specific tasks. As we can clearly see, this head and probably the other, have glass eyes mounted in them. How and what could the poor guys wearing them see!? This guy had to viciously stab Jenny and know where the blood bags were and the bald one had to hit the prosthetic throat David wore dead on. Must've been hairy for all concerned! (Pun intended!)
Just to say, I LOVE this film. The werewolf is still the most terrifying werewolf in film history in my opinion. There have been other great werewolves, as in the Underworld movies, they're wonderful costumes and very cool, but there's a difference between 'cool' and 'horrific'. Anyway, my original reason for commenting is how obvious the Dremel created 'scratches' are once you see this close up. 3:01 if you want to see. They're not at all realistic as genuine wear and tear scratches but of course you never see that when it's in the movie. Like many viewers of this, virtually everything I own is either made by me, painted by me or aged by me, and whenever I work on something I do it to a level that it looks absolutely real even close up. That's the difference between amateur and professional i guess! Knowing when the details don't have to look absolutely real and just work on camera. Every minute saved is a slice off the budget! This is an incredible work of art though and I'm very jealous of whoever ends up owning it!
When I went to Savini's school, a student had made a miniature bust of this mask and they had it on display in the sculpting room.
That's it... I'm off to rewatch American Werewolf in London again, for the sometieth time since it first blew me away when it first came out.
Yes, I am that old!
That’s thumbnail brought back a lot of childhood memories, mostly from having that mask scare the shit out of me
#Truth
@@tested A naked American man stole my balloons.
That's from American Werewolf in London? Looks more like the kind of thing that would appear in House. I guess I'm remembering wrong.
Rick Baker: Master of make up and masks.
hehe not the shot i remember. for me when i first seen this film i was in my teens and was tripping on magic mushrooms. the one part that sticks in my mind was when his dead mate was in the cinema and was rotting away that blew my mind back then. i had to watch the movie a couple of times when not on shrooms. but it still is the best scene in the movie. oh apart from when he was changing into a wold. i felt every bone and muscle and ligament bend and snap. dont watch on shrooms. lol.
I'm pretty sure that is the mask of the one that stabs Agutter. Only because I watched American Werewolf last week :P (and every year as part of my Halloween-week Horrothon)
Who thumbs down this? I mean, what is there to dislike here??? 🤷🏼♂️
Without ever meeting Rick I can safely say hes one of the nicest people on the planet
He honestly is.
What the hell kind of pointless comment my god. Freaking weirdo
American Werewolf in London is still considered one of the best werewolf transformations in film today. We are in need of a new good werewolf movie
I read the pdf of this auction and the photo of this sculture is the most terrifying of the whole book. It's perfect for his purpose..
That’s DEFINITELY not a mold of ANY German helmet from WW1 or WW2, it’s a fantasy piece inspired by the M16 or M35 German helmet….BUT, oddly enough, the demon’s helmet is much closer in look to the Iraqi Fedayeen helmet…which was inspired by Darth Vader’s helmet…..which was inspired by German WW2 helmets….
HEAD EXPLODES
Additional. I only found out quite recently that the guy who gets munched on the escalator is Michael Carter who played Bib Fortuna in ROTJ. How have I reached 49 years and not known this? 😳
I reached 52 and didn't know that.
Not nazi demon they're nazi werewolf.
It's reference to back in 1940s there was a German special focused
S call werewolf
What would have been really cool, to have a button to press to play a sound clip of this things scream from the movie.
Talk about terrifying!!!...especially at the age I saw this movie.
I was 10 years old when I finally saw it.
I watched this film far too young and it was this monster that left me with nightmares.
Stay away from the moors...
OMG!!
Come on Adam, Vader's helmet was based on a samurai kabuto, not a Nazi helmet.
From what I heard before Rick Baker got regular work in effects to make money he used to make pull over masks like this and he used to stamp them. Apparently, even then they were quite sought after and very well made at the time. I am not sure how many of is original pull overs still exist? but quite a bit of them were used in the star wars cantina sequence.
I believe it and the other three were actually sculpted by his students while he worked on the main wolf due to time constraints, but he oversaw it's production and had to approve of them regardless. Awesome piece of movie history you have there ❤
Aw yes. Showing movies to your kids they shouldn't see. I remember being home alone with my 4 year old daughter one Saturday afternoon and I decided that Mars Attacks! would be a nice Saturday afternoon flick.
When Michal J fox got his hand severed and a dog ran away with it my cute little daughter turned around and looked at me with that frown of horror and disgust and said "Dad-ee-ee!!"
I couldn't help but laugh. "You're right, Kido. Sorry I forgot how weird this movie is" So I turned it off.
rewatched due to this clip. forgot just how good it was and what it meant to me ...saw it like most people as a kid n it scared the shite outta me. saddened and smiles for rik mayal's appearance - oh and brian glover ! alien3 works for me mostly due to his performance. great old school british actor
See you next Wednesday.
3:35 - When I saw this piece in the early 90's that swastika below Rick's name was a lot clearer. Probably for the best that they obscured that a bit.
It's not 'Jenny Orgitur' it's A (hard 'a') gutter. Just trying to be helpful 👍
Mmm, I'm pretty certain that Vader's helmet was styled after samurai armoring...
They are called 'Nightmare Demons' ...
Like Adam since childhood 🙌🙌🙌🍪
This scene was absolute savagery lol, especially when you’re 8……
That is mugly (spelling intentional)!
Is that someone's "A" signature on the right at 5:00? Definitely looks like a makers mark of some kind, from the prop/ makeup department I presume.
Stahlhelm!
If I remember Rick baker didn’t sculpt these?. He was so swamped with work that he passed these onto his fans to take the work load of him?. Or did he indeed sculpt all the nightmare stuff?
I can't stand how Adam brags in every video.
Love it
I am absolutely not a fan of horror and I've been dragged to every horror film I've seen in theaters by a friend. That said, the makeup can be amazing on them. To be honest, I thought "American Werewolf in London" was a comedy spoof of horror movies from the name (the "American werewolf" part sounded like a contrivance for making fun of American stereotypes) but I never saw it (and never will no matter what comments I get in response). I'm surprised to learn a movie with that title is an actual horror classic.
It actually wasn't John Chambers that recommended Rick. It was an employee at ..I think it was Don Post Studios that recommended Rick. Rick would go there to get a gallon of latex, as he couldn't afford the big 5 gallon containers.
When American Werewolf in London came out I ... thought ... about going to see it. After seeing these comments I am happy I never did because it sounds like it would have scared me shitless.
Love the warmonger sculpt. Baker's work is inspired.
Anyone else have the Pat Magee version of this? It's the best replica I've seen.
At 1:00 according to wikipedia Rick Baker only won 7 Oscar's for makeup. Perhaps he picked one up in another category?
Brandon's unspoken "So help me, if he starts dismantling this one..." is really loud here.
Spray bottle of water might be useful. "No! Bad maker. No disassemble to satisfy curiosity!"
Cultural mask than Freddy Krueger👍
Aahhh, that scene was pure Horror.
I had to watch that scene. There was 4 creatures in his dream.
Classic gory love story, one of the best...
That thing is so fucking striking and amazingly freaky. I've been obsessed with that mask since I saw it as a kid
WOW!!! This Bust is very amazing, very cool,looks fantastic!!! Many Greetings from Germany!!! 👍👍👍❤😍
The helmet looks like an Iraqi fedayeen helmet
Frank Oz cameo in American Werewolf was everything.
thanks to both of you for bringing us these awesome pieces. Keep them coming please.
they wore german uniforms too
The muppets were the scariest
ICONIC
Great
Very cool.
Originally used in WW2 posters promoting the importance of oral hygiene.
I have never seen this movie, I will have to check it out
I’m jealous, I wish I could see it for the first time- it lives up to the hype.
It is SO good.
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Jo
AWWIL is absolutely a classic but doesn’t quite hold up. Ending is an anticlimax.
absolutely untrue. holds up in the utmost in terms of writing, effects, cinematography. as for the ending, it was a logical ending to his story arc and it’s ending the cycle of the werewolf which is a big theme.
Your sadly mistaken 😭
Oh, you're that guy who needs stories to end up wrapped with pretty little bowsl
@@nasanodia736 Yeah, me and Roger Ebert, who said the movie lacked an ending. I agree.
For the record, I think the ending of The Thing was awesome BECAUSE it had no “bow.”
@@rong1924 The movie was a Tragic Comedy... David had no other option but to die. Sorry it was too sudden for you, but it seemed 'dead' on the right way to go as a finale to me.
And to think that scene was done in a brightly lit room, you still can’t get CG effects like this, the brighter it is the more that has to be rendered 😭 meaning more $$$. The one movie that has a epic CG sequence in bright daylight that is still Legendary is the 97 STARSHIPTROOPERS bug war in the desert. INTENSELY MEMORABLE. Rick Bakeris a Legend but also praises DICK SMITH who always wanted to teach the younger artists his secrets. PRACTICAL EFFECTS are still the best, think Stan Winston’s Dinosaurs or GROGU🤫