A four-legged hound from hell. That's the evocative direction that John Landis gave to Rick Baker when he hired the makeup maestro to design the monster who appears in the title of the 1981 horror ...
An American Werewolf in London. The zombies from Michael Jackson's "Thriller." Bela Lugosi's Dracula from Ed Wood. The dark fairy Maleficent. They're all the work of Rick Baker, who created some of ...
There are few figures in movie history that have become more synonymous with their craft than Rick Baker. He won the inaugural Academy Award for makeup in 1982 for “An American Werewolf in London” — ...
As a kid, legendary makeup artist Rick Baker wanted to disappear and stand out. Back then, when Baker came across a magazine about the makeup done for some classic horror films he felt something ...
One of the greatest directors of the 1980s, John Landis, expertly combines macabre horror with dark humour in the lycanthropic classic, An American Werewolf in London. American tourists David and Jack ...
Rachael Severino is a writer from New York. She was awarded her Bachelor's in Classical Archaeology and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing her MFA at Columbia ...
Rick Baker sculpts a puppet head for the 1981 film An American Werewolf in London. Now retired, Baker's work has been collected in the two-volume collection Metamorphosis. They're all the work of Rick ...
An American Werewolf in London, Maleficent, the ghouls in "Thriller": the costume designer has made some of film's great creatures. His... Rick Baker, The Monster Maker Of Hollywood An American ...