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15 Bizarre Things Used For Iconic Movie Special Effects

Big-budget movies are so polished, you’d think they used nothing but custom-made props, produced from high-end materials. But sometimes, they just resort to using weird and/or everyday things that somebody on the production team realized would work great. For example:

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Some of Gollum's spit in the Lord of The Rings movies is actually Andy Serkis' own spit. Gollum sometimes spits when he's talking excitedly, and they

Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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The poop Samwell had to clean on Game of Thrones was wet fruitcake. They soaked fruitcake in water, and then sculpted it into poop-like forms. Shootin

Source: 7 Special FX That Were Made Out Of Food (And Super Gross)

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The information discs that programs wear on their backs in Tron are really Frisbees. Frisbee coach Sam Schatz was hired to train the actors how to use

Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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The slime on the drawers in the library in Ghostbusters is a Chinese food starch methyl silos. CRACKEDGOM

Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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In the villain's aquarium in Dr. No, that's just stock footage of fish swimming. The movie could only afford to buy footage of goldfish-sized fish, so

Source: The Guardian, IMDB

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The T-Rex's roar in Jurassic Park is a blend of a tiger snarling, a baby elephant squealing, and an alligator gurgling.

Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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The giant computer in the Pentagon's Space Command in Independence is an actual, decommissioned Air Force computer. Called the AN/FSQ-7, it was a revo

Source: WIRED, Starring The Computer

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In The Wizard of Oz, they used chocolate syrup instead of machine oil. Real machine oil just didn't look that good on camera, so the Tin Man's tears a

Source: Today.com

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A garbage bag was used for the titles in The Thing. THING THE The lettering was on the back of a fish tank filled with smoke, behind part of a plastic

Source: Art of the Title

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In the 2012 Les Mis movie, Anne Hathaway sang next to decomposing fish. The barrels of fish around her during the song I Dreamed a Dream were filled

Source: 5 Famous Movies That Used Horrifying Substances for Effects

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The snow in It's A Wonderful Life was a mix of 000 gallons of sugar, water, and soap flakes, combined with foamite (the stuff in fire extinguishers).

Source: 7 Special FX That Were Made Out Of Food (And Super Gross)

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The actors playing dead people in Day of the Dead had to keep their faces above rotting meat for hours. They'd lay under a false floor, leaving only t

Source: 7 Special FX That Were Made Out Of Food (And Super Gross)

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The river of s*t' Andy Dufresne had to crawl through in The Shawshank Redemption was sawdust and chocolate syrup.

Source: 7 Special FX That Were Made Out Of Food (And Super Gross)

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Ash's android insides in Alien were made of caviar, pasta, glass marbles, and water dyed white. Ridley Scott wanted the insides to be gross but not hu

Source: 7 Special FX That Were Made Out Of Food (And Super Gross)

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Newborns in movies are covered in grape jelly and cream cheese. Apparently, slathering a baby in that is the most convincing option for a realistic-lo

Source: 7 Special FX That Were Made Out Of Food (And Super Gross)

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