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	Chris Walas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chris Walas (born 1955) is an American special effects/makeup artist and director.
		His main body of work is with special effects in a wide variety of movies from science fiction to action-adventure.
		The Fly II (1989) - (effects designer and creator: Chris Walas Inc.)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chris_Walas (232 words)

	Hot wire foam cutter.
		I want to thank Chris Walas for letting me use some of his comments from net and the use of a couple of his images.
		Chris Walas: "I've found Titebond II to be the best all around glue, but it takes a while to dry, so I do as many before me have done and dry wall screw the foam together.
		Chris Walas: "Another suggestion about anchoring the foam; I use Galvanized dry wall screws, screwed and glued into the bottom of the foam and bury the head of the screw.
	users.stratuswave.net /~wd8jik/foamcutter/foamcutter.htm (3692 words)

	The Fly II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was directed by Chris Walas as a sequel to the 1986 movie The Fly.
		A seldom-referenced theme of the film is an allegory of the ruthless exploitation of animals to further scientific knowledge and the willingness of individuals to heartlessly deceive and manipulate others for their own gain.
		As with the first film, makeup and creature effects were provided by Chris Walas, Inc. As opposed to Seth Brundle's diseased deterioration into "Brundlefly", in The Fly II, Martin's metamorphosis is much more of a natural evolution (as a result of the fact that Martin was already born with human-insect hybrid genes).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Fly_II (1851 words)

	David Cronenberg The Fly Fangoria #56 1986
		Walas usually hopes for six months of pre-production, but such luxuries rarely exist in the hectic FX business.
		After a needed month-long rest, Walas and his "Howling Commandos" went quickly to work on The Golden Child, a supernatural Eddie Murphy vehicle, the inevitable House II and Joe Dante´s latest, the "sci-fi comedy adventure" Inner Space.
		Walas´ mechanical puppet replica of Goldblum´s head features an extended lower jaw which splits in two to eject the Fly tongue.
	www.davidcronenberg.de /fangoflyfx.html (2179 words)

	Chris Walas
		Chris Walas is one of Hollywood's premiere special effects wizards, specializing in horror make-up and creature effects.
		Walas first came to prominence after he designed the exploding heads and make-up for David Cronenberg's Scanners.
		In the mid-'80s he created Chris Walas Inc, a company that specialized in creature designs for such films as Gremlins (1984), and Arachnophobia (1990).
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P115748 (103 words)

	The Fly 2 Special Edition
		Chris Walas who directed the film, is more likely to be recognized as the genius (and his team from Chris Walas, Inc.) behind the puppet/animatronic and special effects make-up work on the The Fly as well as Gremlins, and a host of other sci-fi, adventure, and horror films.
		Walas’ debut as a film director is far from awful, but it’s certainly not good either.
		Chris Walas discusses his difficulties as a first time director, and points out flaws or problems with the film.
	www.dvd-dweeb.com /reviews/thefly2.htm (709 words)

	Amazon.com: Fly 2: Video: Chris Walas,Eric Stoltz,Daphne Zuniga,Lee Richardson,John Getz,Frank C. Turner,Ann Marie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Walas strains under a limited budget, and many of the more elaborate creatures (a monstrously mutated dog, the skeletal fly monster leaping about the warehouse-like lab) are rather shabby.
		Chris Walas - Director, George Langelaan - Writer (Characters), Mick Garris - Writer (Story), Mick Garris - Writer (Screenplay), Jim Wheat - Writer (Screenplay), Ken Wheat - Writer (Screenplay), Frank Darabont - Writer (Screenplay), Stuart Cornfeld - Producer (executive producer), Steven-Charles Jaffe - Producer (producer), Gillian Richardson - Producer (associate producer)...
		The director is Chris Walas, who handled the makeup FX in the first film, and it is in this department that the sequel does well.
	www.amazon.com /Fly-2-Chris-Walas/dp/6301376757 (2412 words)

	Movie Reviews, DVDivas Your link to popular movie review, dvd and dvd movies. DVDS
		Walas succeeds best as a director during the sequences where make up and effects are involved and that’s no surprise as he was the make up designer on the previous film.
		His actors do an admirable job and, again, part ofthat credit goes to Walas but most sequels are like little boys trying to walk around in their daddy’s oversized shoes; they tend to move forward but stumble around and fall a lot before they reach their destination.
		Walas’ comments are equally interesting and are filled with tidbits about the making of the movie.
	www.dvdivas.net /movies/reviews/f/fly-2.html (868 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Chris Walas - 1989 - Fly II, The Movies Review
		Chris Walas did some truly amazing effects work on the original The Fly, for which he won a well-deserved Academy Award, but in the director's chair he's clearly out of his element.
		He methodically shuttles his actors from one scene to another; he carries the excuse for a plot from A to B to C, but he does all of this with absolutely zero visual style—the result is a film that is deathly dull to watch, as colorless and lifeless as the monochromatic corridors of Bartok Industries.
		Though the two surviving telepods are seen again, they're presented in a much more pedestrian, less-dynamic fashion; Walas seems to have no idea how to make the kind of effective use of close-ups and lighting that Cronenberg did to add crucial dramatic weight to the scenes in his film that involved them.
	www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10001809 (1911 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Fly II: Collector's Edition (1989)
		Walas isn't really to blame, diligently working as he was under a paint-by-numbers screenplay that gave him a series of scenes, rather than a full story.
		It would be easy to beat up Walas' film as a junky sequel, and while it isn't the greatest horror film ever made, the makeup effects are quite good, making this appealing to take a gander at for fans of gory horror.
		Walas keeps the narrative moving along, with Burns chiming in periodically, and though this isn't a stellar film, the track has enough background facts to merit a casual listen.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=7845 (1170 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Fly II: Collector's Edition
		Makeup artist Chris Walas won a hard-earned Oscar for his exemplary efforts on Cronenberg's production and stepped up to direct a sequel so awkward and pointless that not even Walas' own makeup effects survive the overbearingly dull current of silliness running through the project.
		Of course, it's little surprise that a first-time director would fail in replicating the aesthetic mastery of peak Cronenberg, but Walas can't even contrive shoot his own make-up effects properly, lingering so long in admiration of his goop that his craft is artlessly exposed as icky, unconvincing puppetry.
		Compounding his technical weaknesses, Walas is a dud with actors, and each supporting actor struggles to rise even to the script's measly level of caricature.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/f/fly2_se.q.shtml (462 words)

	The Fly II (1989)
		Chris Walas was the makeup effects man on the remake, where he won an Oscar for his work, and was then allowed to make his directorial debut with this film.
		One might have thought that with Chris Walas as the director, he might have seen the way to doing something really stupendous with the makeup effects.
		Certainly Chris Walas contributes some quite gory splatter effects - a head going squish like a melon under the creature's foot and a nifty melted face effect.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/fly2.htm (656 words)

	DVDFILE.com
		Eric Stoltz and Daphne Zuniga are the young lovers at the center of Chris Walas’ sequel.
		Walas may pale in comparison to Cronenberg’s professional filmmaking finesse, but he goes leaps and bounds beyond him in terms of liquid pounds of grotesqueries thrown around in The Fly II.
		Unfortunately, the screen-specific audio commentary by director Chris Walas and beloved film historian Bob Burns is dull as dirt, even though Burns’ history as a collector extraordinaire is without measure.
	www.dvdfile.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5074&Itemid=3 (811 words)

	The Fly II: Collector's Edition (1989)
		For reasons unknown, special effects artist Chris Walas was hired to direct this film.
		The show covers how Walas ended up as the film’s directors and a variety of pressures he experienced as well as supports, script issues, shooting in Vancouver and sets, casting and recruiting the crew, and various production elements.
		From there it goes through the atmosphere during the shoot, Walas’ challenges working with the actors and directing in general, effects and creature design, deleted scenes, editing, score, marketing, test screenings and ratings problems, and the film’s reception.
	dvdmg.com /fly2se.shtml (2714 words)

	DVD Times - The Fly II: Special Edition
		Some audiences might be pleased that Walas went in a different direction with the films story, but anyone with a knowledge of the ageing franchise will know that The Fly II takes its cue from Return of the Fly - the original sequel to Neumann’s classic.
		Walas is initially reluctant to open up about the film, but after some prodding from Burns, he soon gets chatting.
		Walas is also unafraid to mention the critical drubbing that The Fly II received on its release.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=58936 (2750 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of The Fly II (1989)
		The complex premise is one of the results, but Walas deserves praise for turning what could have been a complete mess into a complex, focused meditation on corporations, "mutant rights and responsibilities," and in the vein of The Fly, romance and a criticism of using technology to play God.
		One nice idea, which Walas credited to a request by Stoltz, was for the fly to emerge through an increase of stringy, sticky matter that builds into a cocoon, rather than Goldblum's molting transformation.
		Cronenberg is undoubtedly a master of a certain atmospheric approach to "gore," which is usually "disturbing biology" and "technobiology" in his case, but Walas, while his approach necessarily has a different mood, achieves some marvelous biological creations of his own-principally the full cocoon.
	classic-horror.com /reviews/fly2.shtml (690 words)

	The Fly II: Collector's Edition DVD Set Review
		Chris Walas improves on the gore and creature effects he developed for the previous film, but as a first time director, he seems a bit constricted and ironically the film feels more like a made for television picture rather than a theatrically released movie.
		Director Chris Walas and Film Historian and famed curator for genre film memorabilia from around the world, Bob Burns, participate in a conversational and retrospective feature length audio commentary track like two friends getting together to relax and talk about a movie the both love.
		Chris Walas’ comments are interesting though he tends to say the same thing again in the brand new documentary “Transformation: Looking Back At The Fly II” (48:29) that is included on disc two.
	www.genreonline.net /Fly_II_DVD.html (1257 words)

	DVD Authority \| DVD Review of "The Fly II: Collector's Edition" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Walas does his best with what he has, but it all just falls short in this less than stellar effort.
		The audio commentary with director Chris Walas and film historian Bob Burns is passable, but not that memorable.
		Walas isn't the kind to pat himself on the back at every chance, but he avoids a lot of the potential trouble spots just the same.
	www.dvdauthority.com /reviews.asp?reviewID=4444 (710 words)

	The Fly II: Special Edition (1989)
		The Fly II (1989) was released to less than positive reviews due to the different approach taken by director Chris Walas who was responsible for the creature effects of The Fly (1986).
		There are a number of plot holes and average performances all round but Walas’ treatment of the Martin Brundle character in respects to special effects is impressive.
		A funny commentary, in which neither Walas nor Burns speaks of the film critically as it was a fun production and supposed to be a fun camp film.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=6715&SID=2&PID=785454 (916 words)

	The Fly II is plenty gory, but can't hold a fly-swatter to the original
		Director Chris Walas (who created the make-up effects for The Fly), seems uncertain of what story he would like to tell and this results in an unsatisfying Friday the 13th-type movie.
		Walas and screenwriters Mike Garris, Jim and Ken Wheat, and Frank Darabont are given a wonderful idea to work with, yet they do nothing with it.
		Unlike Walas, The Fly's director David Cronenberg was careful not to be excessive.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V109/N3/fly2.03a.html (657 words)

	THE FLY/THE FLY II - DOUBLE FEATURE DVD
		In nearly every way, The Fly II is literally the bastard child of its predecessor: aimless, derivative, reliant upon the absent parent for its identity and structure, yet succeeding only at being a pale imitation.
		Chris Walas, who had so brilliantly created and designed "Brundlefly," demonstrates that he unfortunately learned little in the way of directing from his collaborations with Cronenberg (he also worked on Scanners).
		A virtual carbon-copy of the original, the only real divergences between The Fly and The Fly II are either mandated by its premise or serve to make literal the many subtleties of Cronenberg's film.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/flyflyii.htm (1312 words)

	Howie Weed - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki
		Weed began working for Chris Walas Inc. for the next years as a special effect technician, or "creature technician", as he would be sometimes called.
		Weed was not exclusively working for Walas and then tried his luck with another special effects company, Backwood Films, in Steve Miner's horror film House (1986).
		Firstly, Weed had worked as one of the creature sculptors for Chris Walas debut as a director, The Fly II.
	starwars.wikia.com /wiki/Howie_Weed (806 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Fly II: Special Edition
		To direct, they brought in Chris Walas, the special effects and make-up wizard who created the gleefully ghoulish gross-outs seen in the first film.
		But whereas Cronenberg's explored the mysteries of the flesh, Walas set out to recreate the thrills of the classic 1950s monster movies he grew up with.
		The "Transformations" doc has Walas and various members of the production team looking back on the film, with all bases covered, from casting to effects to marketing.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/fly2se.php (1500 words)

	Gremlins: Special Edition (1984)
		Creature designer Chris Walas and his crew did an excellent job with the monsters, as they properly achieved the necessary cartoony balance.
		Given the heavy amount of effects required for the movie, the focus remained on technical elements, and I learned what an ordeal it was to make the flick; Walas still sounded as though he could fall into a Gremlins-related nervous breakdown at any minute.
		In addition to the details of the taxing process caused by the creation of the critters, they talked about the film’s genesis and different story elements that changed along the way.
	www.dvdmg.com /gremlins.shtml (2252 words)

	"The Fly II" DVD Review by Kevin Carr - 7M Pictures
		The big draw for us was that while David Cronenberg didn’t direct this movie, Chris Walas (the man responsible for the horrific effects in “The Fly”) did.
		The DVD comes with feature commentary from director Chris Walas and film historian Bob Burns.
		There are several storyboard-to-film comparisons with optional commentary by Chris Walas, a film production journal, and original 1989 “The Fly II” featurette, theatrical trailers and a still photo gallery.
	www.7mpictures.com /inside/reviews/thefly2dvd_review.htm (599 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - DVD, Movie, Video: The Fly 2, Eric Stoltz, DVD, Wide Screen / Color / DTS
		Director: Chris Walas Cast: Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson, John Getz
		Chris Walas, the makeup and animatronics director on David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly, takes a stab at directorial duties in this sequel.
		Before Seth Brundle morphed into scrap metal in the original The Fly, he managed to leave behind the seed of his legacy, and at the start of The Fly 2 his son, Martin (Eric Stoltz), has suffered an accelerated growth, thanks to his fly genes.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?EAN=24543192060 (318 words)

	Chris Walas Photos - Chris Walas News - Chris Walas Information
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