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all of which are diffi¬
enough to hide inside an
opaque effects piece. Naulin's eels
came in three sizes: quarter scale,
movements,
cult
half scale and full scale. The quar¬
scale eel was used only in the
ter
aquarium shots, and had no me¬
chanical articulation to speak of,
but swam naturally in the tank.
The half scale model had
some ar¬
ticulation, the full scale model,
which measured 29" long, was
fully articulated. "It's got a radio
controlled mouth, it breathes, and
it could move in three directions,"
notes Naulin proudly. "It's full of
subtleties you never saw. It is com¬
pletely transparent, so you see the
veins. Its skeleton was handmade
out of plastic rib sections that
linked together by a
down the center, and it's got
cable
cable
pulls on either side that are dis¬
guised as part of the veining; so it
can move left, right and down.
were
There is a rubber vein
and rubber air bladders
structure
on
side, and it is covered with
the in¬
a trans¬
lucent
prophylactic skin. It is a
completely constructed piece, and
when it's backlit in the film, you
can see all the way through."
Naulin and his crew, con¬
Above: Sorel in the
Shostrom
makeup
Pretorius Resonator,
created
by David
Mansley.
sisting of his wife, Shayna, Criswell
and Greg Johnson, also con¬
structed an enormous lamprey eel
which served as a sentry to protect
the Resonator's power supply (a
fusebox located in the basement
of The Pretorius Foundation). The
finished eel measured 24 feet long,
and was partially operated by
Criswell. It became so heavy, due
to the fact that it was half-sub-
merged in water, that it had to be
suspended on wires in order to
achieve certain movements. This
caused some difficulty because the
lighting in the Beyond se¬
tended to make hiding
the wires a tricky business. This
was particularly true of the seg¬
ment in which Jeffrey Combs as
Crawford Tillinghast, Pretorius'
naive assistant, is nearly devoured
by the gigantic creature. "You
don't really see it pull him out of
the water," Naulin explains. "You
see him flailing about, nine feet in
extreme
quences
the air,
and,
at
that point, it's
on
the set. Left: The
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