Toby Lindala's work on The X-Files continued to revolve around fabricating corpse dummies, such as the frozen body in 'Synchrony'. In fact, there was so many severed head props that Lindala's studio had a 'head tree' of prop heads hanging from the ceiling!
For the episode 'Home', prosthetic appliances were made for the three performers portraying the grotesquely inbred Peacock brothers. A lumpy full face appliance was made for Chris Nelson Norris and Adrian Hughes as Edmund and Sherman Peacocks respectively.
A forehead appliance, along with deformed dentures, was made for John Trottier as George Peacock, with more appliances made for extras in the Peacock family's photographs.
Another deformed facial appliance was made for Karin Konoval as Mrs. Peacock, though I also suspect that a set of dummy amputated limbs were made. Were the dummy limbs operated by Konoval from underneath the trolley? (I wish there was more BTS images...)
A forehead appliance was made for Richard Beymer to depict him slicing his skin off in 'Sanginarium', with the appliance having the appearance of bloody tissue underneath the flap of skin. A melted dummy head was also made for the episode.
Lindala made several corpse props (including a goat body) and fungal infection makeups in 'El Mundo Gira'. A set of enlarged skull makeups were made for Jose Yenque and Raymond Cruz as infected fungus carriers. (Again wish there was more behind the scenes photos...)
The episode 'Leonard Betts' required several makeup effects gags. Firstly was the makeup applied on Paul McCrane to give him a more slimy, almost foetal appearance. The look was achieved via several thick layers of gelation, with a veiny paintjob.
For the shots of Betts regenerating a new body of himself, a cast was taken of McCrane to construct an animatronic puppet. The puppet's 'skin' was rubber, and elastic enough that a smaller dummy head could be forced out the mouth.
The dummy head was puppeteered out of shot, and it took several takes to force it out the rubber mouth. The final effect of Betts emerging was done in post-production, with footage of McCrane in the gelatin makeup shot in greenscreen, and superimposed on the dummy head.
The casts of McCrane were also used to make a severed head prop in his likeness, as well as several burnt corpse props.
A frozen Grey alien corpse was also made for the season's final episode 'Gethsemane'.
Sources:
- Assorted 'Behind the Truth' featurettes.
Continued in The X-Files - Season 5
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