A designer tasked with creating a monster from Netflix‘s huge hit, Bird Box, has revealed what it looks like after much speculation.
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As you’ll know, we didn’t end up seeing any of the monsters throughout the film. Instead, we were led to believe they took on the forms of our worst nightmares.
Andy Bergholtz, master sculptor and creature designer, had the pleasure of designing a monster from the movie. Unfortunately for Bergholtz, the end result was cut from the film but the original scene had been a ‘dream/nightmare’ sequence with Sandra Bullock‘s character.
As Bergholtz makes clear, this is just one look as the “fatal ‘vision’ that each character saw would most likely be different for each person”.
“Considering her pregnant state and emotional arc thru the movie, the producers felt Sandra’s nightmare would have something to do with a twisted, demonic baby creature attacking her (that’s as much as I could gather about the context of the scene anyway).
“I sculpted at least 3 or 4 variations on the design before it was approved, which began as a more aggressive, monstery look and was revised to be a bit more subtle in the end. I also had the pleasure of painting the finished prosthetics before sending them to set, to be worn and performed by the one and only Dirk Rogers @thehalloweendirk, applied by the great @proutyfx.
“It’s funny, I read an interview recently where Bullock described the creature as a “snake-like, green man with a horrific baby face”. Many folks have speculated what the creature may have looked like, but they fail to realize the “snake-like green man” portion was simply Dirk in a spandex green-screen suit. Everything from the neck down was intended to be a giant CGI creature/body added later.”
The spandex, the green, the baby face… you can understand why Bullock was laughing instead of screaming.
In the interview with Bloody Disgusting, Bullock explained how she refused to look at the creature until filming kicked off because she was so afraid to see it for the first time.
“We’ll shoot the scene.’ I turn and he’s like this [growling at me.] It’s making me laugh. It was just a long fat baby,” she told the publication.
Anywhoo, despite the scene being cut and the uh laughing, Bergholtz is still super pleased to have worked on the project.
“In the end, I actually really liked the movie and think it was better off NOT showing the makeup. Kudos to the director for sticking to her guns on that one,” he wrote.
You can suss his full post and the creepy baby below.
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Maybe it’s the lack of green spandex but I would still shit my pants if this came up to me in the dark and opened its goddamn eyes.
You can find Bird Box, minus the creepy baby snake on Netflix.
