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MEET THE SHRINKERSMEET

CREATURE-EFFECTS SUPERVISOR NEAL SCANLAN ON THE GLORY OF A SHRUNKEN HEAD

THE ORIGINAL

In Beetlejuice, Geena Davis’ Barbara Maitland found herself face to tiny face with a man with a shrunken head, his enormous eyes gawping at her. “It was one of the movie’s iconic images,” remembers Neil Scanlan, who didn’t work on that film, but loved it — particularly that chap. “The brilliance is the tiny amount of movement that’s required in order to sell that great moment: just a bit of head and eye movement.”

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