Top 5 examples of make up in films I love.

5. The Phantom Of The Opera

The phantom of the opera is a 1925 American silent horror film which features Lon Chaney in the title role as the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to force the management to make the woman he loves a star. It is the most famous for Lon Chaney's internationally horrific, self-applied makeup, which was kept a studio secret until the fim's premiere.

Chaney painted his eye sockets black, giving a skull-like impression to them. He would glue spirit gum which was an adhesive on his nose and then place the little strip of fish skin (which is a thin transparent piece of skin from the stomach lining of fish) and he would ppull the nose up to the way he wanted it and then ran the rest of the piece of fish skin up into the forehead, pinning it down with spirit gum.

Phantom Of The Opera - Unmasking Scene (1925)

 

 



4. Frankenstein

Borris Karloff

In the 1930's Jack Pierce worked with Borris Karloff in the universals make-up lab to create Frankenstein which would infulence many generations of makeup artists.

Firstly he put spirit gum on his brow, stuck some cotton onto it, painted on a layer of colodian (a liquid/plastic type material) and added more to where he thought was necessary until the brow was completed. People have read 6-8 hours for the makeup to be complete. Borris on occasion would wear the makeup at home, instead of going through the whole procedure he would sleep between two book and try not to move so in the morning he could readjust the makeup which would take a lot less time.

Borris Karloff

The only one i could find showing him.

 

3. Edward Scissorhands

 



Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands

 

Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American romantic fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. The film shows the story of an artificial man named Edward, an unfinished creation, who has scissors for hands.

 

 

 

 

2. Pinhead (Hellraiser)

 

 

 

Pinhead is a fictional character from the Hellraiser series. Created by Clive Barker and portrayed by Doug Bradley, Pinhead is a prominent figure in the series, mostly featured as the main antagonist Pinhead is the leader of the cenobites, formerly human creatures from an extradimensional realm who travel to Earth through the Lament Configuration, and harvest human souls. Depicted as intelligent and articulate, the character was deliberately presented as a departure from the mute or wise-cracking 1980s horror movie villains who preceded him, being based more on Count Dracula.

 

 

1. Silent Hill Nurse (Silent Hill)

 

 

In the Silent Hill franchise, monsters are manifested by the town of Silent Hill, which acts as a mirror of an individual's anxieties and fears. Due to the recurring themes of hospitalization, insanity, and death, each game features (at some point) a trip to one of Silent Hill's two hospitals: Alchemilla Hospital (which houses the town's emergency room) in Old Silent Hill and/or Brookhaven Hospital (which houses long-term patients and the mentally ill) in South Vale. Invariably, once inside the hospital, the player will encounter monsters manifested by the town which resemble malformed, disfigured nurses.
The Nurses share many common traits across the entire series, with alterations both large and small that reflect the mentality and personality traits of the game's protagonist (and in some cases, such as the original Silent Hill, the antagonist). Generally these monsters wear uniforms that reflect those of contemporary nurses, though in the first Silent Hill game the Nurses wear a much older form of attire, including cardigans, rather than modern-day nurse scrubs.