Carlo Rambaldi

Um, and there's a reason for that.

The werewolf was designed by Carlo Rambaldi.

What?

Yeah, the man did incredible work and had an amazing career.

You can read how he felt about it, but he felt like he did not get enough credit for the role.

The animatronic head was built by special effects designer Carlo Rambaldi, and the only Academy Award that the film won was for Best Visual Effects, and it went to the creature and effects team.

You say only, but it's pretty unusual for a movie of this genre, especially at that time, to win any sort of award, so.

Yeah.

And I thought it was fun.

I think Carlo Rambaldi is overrated when it comes to his makeup effects.

I don't know.

He does done some great stuff.

He did, um, ET.

And he did this dirty.

And they did this one, this one, I don't know if it was the, the budget or what, but there is, it's, uh, if you're comparing Carlo Rambaldi's, um, werewolf effects to rob boutin or rick baker he is a distant distant third when it comes to uh comes to that i would even say rick baker's thriller work is better than the work in this in this movie at least michael jackson you know with the Yeah, it was a scarier werewolf than this one.

This one, like I said, it looked like a wombat or a bear instead of a werewolf to me.

That was the intent.

So they bring in Carlo Rambaldi to design the creature.

Okay.

Now, Rambaldi was not a B-movie hack.

Bava also got his pick of production partners and populated the crew with names he was known for working with, his son and assistant director Lamberto Bava, who is now a film director in his own right, uh, editor Romana Fortini, cinematographer Antonio Rinaldi, and script supervisor Rosabella Scavia.

He also utilized production designers Flavio Mogherini and Piero Gherardi, and future Oscar winner Carlo Rambaldi and Ennio Morricone.

Dan, it always is, like, the easiest way to pronounce anything in Italy is pronounce every single letter.

So [laughs] that's usually what I go with.

I knew about the, because I have another person who also did like the spaceships and stuff, but Giger did all the sort of alien, the derelict spaceship and the, that alien moon or planet or whatever it was.

Okay, so he wasn't the official one, but he credited as the designers of Alien along with Carlo Rambaldi.

So he basically, he was, yes, a big piece of it, but I guess that wasn't his official title.

I must have misremembered or misread that somewhere.

So she did.

And then the E.T. design, Carlo Rambaldi.

course went on to win the oscar for it since it's very iconic incredible design and then also the execution with all the puppetry animatronics all that cast henry thomas d wallace drew barrymore robert mcnaughton peter coyote

Dude, Spielberg is like the goat.