THEY’VE WORKED with legendary filmmakers and created characters for a slew of iconic properties – but Lou and Dave Elsey from Igor Studios would “do Ghost Story forever” if they could, despite the annual tales from Mark Gatiss being created on a fraction of Hollywood budgets.
SFX goes behind the scenes on the filming of A Ghost Story For Christmas: Lot No 249 with the creature makers to see how they bring the dead to life…
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DAVE: We had a very, very short amount of time to think about this. The first thing to do was to research all the different mummies from all the films that have been done before. We didn’t really want to go down exactly the same route that every other one has gone down.
Of course, we’re already familiar with lots of them, being horror movie fans. We looked at everything – the Boris Karloff mummy, the Christopher Lee mummy from the Hammer version. There’s even mummies in Abbott and Costello movies that we looked at. Obviously there’s a theme with all of them. But we also looked at some of the illustrations and things that hadother mummy films.
