‘Other Mommy’ Had Some Incredible Creature Effects. These Photos Prove It.

Whatever you thought of Other Mommy, its creature effects deserve some love. There are images in Rob Savage’s latest that are fucking otherworldly, and the team behind them is giving us a closer look at how those nightmares came to life.

Makeup effects artist Jeremy Selenfriend has shared behind the scenes photos and footage of the entity’s “attack mode,” designed with Brian Spears, Melanie Licata, and the team at Monster in My Closet. Hayley Spelman wore and performed the creature, which takes the familiar features of Jessica Chastain (It Chapter Two) and stretches them into something wonderfully wrong.

According to Selenfriend, the look evolved from concept art by Vincent Proce through numerous sculptural variations, always using a distorted version of Chastain as its foundation. The black portion of the makeup was deliberately left as a placeholder for visual effects.

“This beauty queen of a creature … was referred to as the entity’s ‘attack mode,’” Selenfriend explains. Although it appears in the finished film for only a few beats, he says it was the most frequently applied of the production’s many creature looks.

And that first image clearly means a lot to him.

“The first image is my single favorite monitor shot from my entire career thus far,” he writes. “It was SO terrifying and effective in camera and took so many talented humans to bring to life!”