The 'I want to see the suit' shift is real in my inbox too. People want weight. A thing that is actually in the room with the actors.

Bring one puppet or prop if you can travel with it. People will crowd around it after the screening. Handmade things are magnets.

From the effects side: low sentiment around the more extreme titles is often people saying "I cannot watch this" while absolutely watching it. The classifier might read that as negative.

Blanket watching is completely valid. Half my job is making things look worse than they are.

As someone who builds the craft, I accept this investment thesis.

Tip for foam tombstones: a heat gun for weathering, then a wash of gray and brown paint wiped off with a rag. Instantly looks like it has been rained on since 1880.

As the person who would have to build it: give me one detail. One. A hand, a silhouette, a sound. I can make one detail terrifying. I cannot make 'an indescribable form' into anything but a budget meeting.

Latex under my nails since 2009 and I have never had so many people ask me about prosthetics at parties. $SBST changed the conversation around $BODY. The question is whether it opened a door or set a bar nobody can clear.

Great list. Honorable mention to whoever invented stage blood that washes out of carpet. The real heroes of this industry.

Makeup effects are where low budget films either save money or waste it. One great practical effect in the right shot does more than a lot of mediocre ones.

The greatest argument for limitations ever filmed.

Opinion thread, no wrong answers except the wrong ones. Best practical effects of all time? I will start with the obvious: the transformation in $AAWL. Done with the lights up, nowhere to hide. Every time I watch it I learn something new ab…

Effects note: one great practical gag is cheaper than twelve mediocre ones. Write the scare you care about most and let the rest be sound and shadow. I would rather build one thing properly than patch a dozen.