“I really want the flesh and blood to be real.” In “The Substance,” a fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of ...

In “The Substance,” writer-director Coralie Fargeat turns her lens on toxic beauty standards and takes body horror to new, visceral extremes. The film follows former fitness star Elisabeth Sparkle ...

Makeup in cinema is much more than brushstrokes and tubes of foundation. It is an art that has shaped the history of the 7th art, transformed actors into legendary creatures and transported spectators ...

It was a typical day on the set of Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” and a dead mime was screaming. The most unsettling problem? The actor‘s tongue still had a visible and decidedly not-ghostly ...

The hair and makeup design and costume categories at the Oscars are always a feast for the eyes, brimming with sumptuous period dramas and often shocking transformations of movie stars. There is ...

A severed hand reaches across the red cover of this paperback, and the images in Vinther's book get progressively more gruesome from there. A European special effects expert, Vinther clearly ...