Practical effect

We want to deconstruct why these specific 11 stories were so effective at traumatizing an entire generation.

And we are going to look at the practical effects too, the rubber, the slime, the puppetry.

Right, to see how they hold up against modern CGI.

But the real goal is to strip away the campy tropes and uncover the deeper psychological architecture hiding beneath the jump scares.

But the showrunners managed to make that concept palatable, though still deeply unsettling for a younger audience by swapping blood and gore for green slime and leaves.

And Taylor Kudjes' list makes a massive point about why this works so well.

The practical effects.

The practical effects, the tactile nature of that green goop.

... at Fox or Disney.

There's, there's so many practical effects elements of it and tied in with the CGI.

Is it a lot of your background does have a high level of practical effects?

Yeah, wherever possible.

Yeah, yeah.

It's like, as you're saying, like, because you're doing scale miniatures and then you're having to shoot real scale people, and the lens distances and all that sort of stuff, you really need someone who, like, you have that shorthand with, and they sort of understand where you're coming from.

You don't need a lot of back and forths.

I imagine if you've shot a lot of practical effects with him already before on a lot of projects, there's a lot of conversations that don't need to be had.