Jack Bayless

Jack Bayless

Special effects makeup artist and film student unfortunately based in Kansas

Favorite films

  • Cemetery Man
  • Society
  • Nowhere
  • 964 Pinocchio

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • The Monkey

    ★★★

  • TerrorVision

    ★★★★

  • But I'm a Cheerleader

    ★★★★

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  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★★★

    Some absolutely abysmal cgi gore in this. Really pulled me out of the movie every time. Otherwise, it’s pretty fun.

  • The Front Room

    The Front Room

    ★½

    The Blumhouseiest A24 movie ever made

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  • MaXXXine

    MaXXXine

    ★★★★

    What a giallo-ass twist! What a giallo-ass movie actually. Very, very attuned to my tastes; the best in the trilogy imo.

    Also, you’re telling me that that FX artist mixed up a whole bowl of alginate and didn’t already have plaster bandages pre-cut? C’mon girl get your shit together.

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★★

    I don’t even know what to say. My favorite movie from the last five years? Ten years? Glued to the fucking screen from start to finish.

    As an FX guy, I was made to fawn over this. Being birthed out of someone like they’re a cocoon? Decomposition prosthetics? Teeth pulling, ear falling, fingernail grabbing? An entirely practical creature that goes from looking like Dr. Pretorious to Belial? Fuck. Yes. 

    I think the best body horror finale is probably still the…