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Shout out to FX maestro @danmartin.bsky.social for DOLLY’s mask design and to Ashley Thomas for the implementation and gore fx… Seann William Scott gets absolutely f-d up in this movie.

The jaw-dropping DOLLY delivers grimy 16mm grindhouse style & visceral gore in a folk-horror nightmare of grotesquerie. Raw, loud & scuffed at the edges, it’s built for midnight audiences to gasp, scream & laugh together. My usual credo is to “protect the dolls.” BUT NOT HER!! ★★★★ @ Fantastic Fest

I have been singing the praises of this film since I caught a pre-release screening at a festival many years ago. It’s criminally under seen, an absolutely fantastic body horror!

I have eaten many almonds in my life but only today have I had one that tasted like marzipan and let me tell you, I am shook!

Do I know anyone who knows anyone who makes their own procreate brushes? I’m trying to make a dynamic brush and I’m so close but it’s not doing what I feel it should be doing. Anyone I could talk to out there?

Went to see INFINITY POOL with @hexadecibelle.fyi at a special screening with @danmartin.bsky.social doing a Q&A Just after the psychedelic orgy scene, someone 5 rows behind us had a seizure

🧵1/3 In excited anticipation of @manmademoon.bsky.social Rogue Trooper movie, i thought I’d share a short script I wrote for an ultimately never-to-be, proof of concept Rogue Trooper origin movie. Still pretty pleased with it tbh.

Horrifying.

Absolute chaos over at Apple Music. Great curation, guys.

Great job, Chitubox, I’m sure that’ll do!

In this household we believe in Bigfoot! You can do it, Bigfoot, this is what you trained for!

I love this. I find it hilarious that it’s the only song that’s just in English. The apostrophisation of “it’s” makes it feel more weary than annoyed, which I find delightful. I wonder how many errors occurred before they decided they needed a sign…

Getting into this gritty, urban reboot of Shadow Of the Colossus but do think I bonded more with Argo than I have with Hyundai Kona, so far, at least… Guess that’ll make it easier for me later…

What a great tip. Thanks!

I made a thing.

iCloud synchronisation paused… “until device cools down” “to preserve battery” “to optimise system performance” What system performance? This is the system that you are meant to be performing! Do your job, phone. Synchronise my photos now!

Well, this is a great reaction!

U know when u’re cycling home from an occult cheese tasting & u have to have music blaring coz otherwise you can’t concentrate + you have ur hood up coz it’s cold & u realise that u’ve voluntarily jettisoned, like, 87.5% of ur environmental awareness… is that what neurotypicals call risk aversion?

Looking back at my relationship with electronic music, I am increasingly of the opinion that it is essentially a list of fellow neurodivergents (as well as a handful of opportunistic neurotypicals) slowly honing the very specific noise that will make my brain, in particular, jangle.

Here’s a wide of the first impact of one of our “knock/down” bodies. This was for Gen-Z and was used with a quick edit, though they can be used with a VFX transition, too. It’s a careful balance making a dummy that will stand unsupported, deform realistically and not destroy the vehicle.

You gov have done a survey of how offensive British people find different swear words. Given there are no slurs in the list, I thought it might be fun to turn it into a game. See if you can guess number 23 (as it’s kind of in the middle).

Here are some weapons and gag-props I’ve designed over the years. In order: a hatchet to the back from Seize Them, a breakable ornamental shield from Double Date, a surgical drill from the live Inside No. 9 show and the “6 of Swords” death rig from Tarot. I always enjoy these! More info in alt.

A puppet test in the old workshop, this was for the mouth in the back of our lead’s mouth during a nightmare sequence in @ruthpaxton.bsky.social’s A Banquet. A very fun picture to work on and our first feature after the Covid lockdown!

I stayed in a place that had a massive blackboard wall and provided the guest chalk… I can only assume they specifically wanted me to do a Lucio Fulci mural…

I would like to design the gore for more action films. I feel like the action genre is one that has largely missed out on the resurgence of practical effects. I quite enjoyed the action in Fight or Flight (especially the more visceral arm breaks) but the CGI blood was so disappointing!

Pillion has a Cannes nomination! Extremely proud to be involved, there was Never a dull moment on set and It's always wonderful to work with Alex. Some really fun builds on this one, too. Especially… well, you’ll see! So excited for it to be seen by audiences! More in alt.

Jen is filming in Germany, Roz is off sick and Elliot is on set so I’m working from home. Pig is helping.

I wonder how many children died drinking a cocktail of shampoo and bleach after reading George’s Marvellous Medicine…

New announcement from Trump’s ai advisor…

Vital.

I, too, have played (a bit of) this and she ain’t wrong. Very exciting.

I want you to picture George Lucas shaking hands with donald trump.

I get to be part of some important conversations and a grateful that I am the person people come to with these queries.

The fucking chaos that is the tv volume numbering system. It’s like the Wild West.

Why did no one tell me you could make yourself a little fondue any time you want and just classify it as a pasta sauce? Is this illegal and I just didn’t know? Will I be in trouble?

I got shown this weird scam advert on YouTube. Do people fall for this? Footage of a real dog running about intercut with shitty ai images. Baffling.

Watching Scream and Scream Again and I’m struck by how much I miss credits like this: tasty little teasers as to what’s to come!

Pancake day tip: If you make your batter the night before, so it has time to sit overnight, then you can eat loads of pancakes on Shrove Tuesday eve & not have quite enough for the next day so you have to make a sort of half batch to add to what little you managed not to inhale in a galette frenzy!

A very wise use of my time.

Do you use imdb? I was thinking recently about the “star meter” on there and whether it’s of any value, professionally. So, if you felt like searching for “Dan Martin” on imdb.com (I’m normally Dan Martin #2 after the cop from Sleepwalkers) & clicking “add to favourites”, I think that would help.

I just finished Grand Theft Hamlet and found it surprisingly engaging and sweet. It also had me thinking about Hamlet in more depth than I have since my English A-level, which I enjoyed.

Some older or less-often seen bodies I’ve made over the years. In order- Other Side of the Door, Neon, Little Deaths, The Caller. More info in alt.

Last year we built the big man for Jade’s music videos and last week we had to rebuild him for the Brits! It was a crazy turn around and I’m so proud of my on-site team for knocking it out of the park. prosthetic makeup by Laura Phipps (On the vid by Beth Leigh), suit wrangling by Elliot Lidgey.

One episode in and it’s living up to my expectations, which were fucking sky-high.

Satisfying little solutions.

I can confirm that if you take your fresh, whole meal gougères and pipe in a filling of Stilton and Marscapone cream, they are like little savoury doughnut profiterole hybrids and absolutely wonderful.

A thread on blood gags for film & tv. TW/CONTENT WARNING! If someone needs to actively bleed on camera (you see the blood “appear”) then the trick is about how to get the blood to the point of emergence. The options are usually via a prop or under a prosthetic. A combination is often best. 1/?

Shooting Azrael, the performers playing the “burnt ones” endured the brutal Estonian winter clad in 0 but thin rubber. They could wear shoes, though, as feet were largely off camera. On the last day, we shot closeups of their shuffling feet in prosthetics. This is my favorite of those appliances.

Because Jen was incapacitated yesterday I had Sunday lunch delivered to the house. Turns out they did “dog roasts” which isn’t dog meat, but rather, roasts for dogs. They were quite reasonable. So here is Pig eating his Sunday roast in the bathroom (because he clearly needed a wipe-clean floor!)