MUTANT MAKE-UP SECRETS OF THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2

Behind every zombie movie is a really cool make-up artist. The Hills Have Eyes 2 enlisted K.N.B prosthetic make-up artist Tami Lane to transform every day actors into dripping, oozing creatures.

The mutants of The Hills Have Eyes 2 had to endure scorching hot temperatures in the Morrocan desert. Jonathan Craven says a special enclosure had to be designed for cooling off so their zombie make-up wouldn’t melt.

“The make-up process was really complex and really cool. I think there were several four hour make-ups when the mutants were working. So Tami and her crew were often up at four o’clock in the morning and working well before anybody else was. We had a special tent on really hot days on the stage with an air conditioner in it where the people who had the full monster make-up had to sit in an air-conditioned tent so that the make-up didn’t literally melt off because they had to work all day and the stuff is latex or whatever and does melt off eventually.”

Jonathan is so proud of the make-up artist’s handiwork and look of The Hills Have Eyes 2 that he thinks there may be Oscar nods in the film’s future.

“We expect to be nominated for every Academy Award nomination category next year so here’s hoping. Special effects, make-up, writing, best disgusting scene, best mutilation.”

Leading the team of mutants is Chameleon, half human, half rock who is diabolically deformed with blisters and boils covered with dirt and mud.