One of the interesting side aspects that came from the
Clemens/Yellin lawsuit against Spielberg and MGM were the under oath
depositions given by various crew members. Here, makeup artist Michael
McCraken, who worked for Craig Reardon on the film, discusses his work
on the face peeling, closet mouth, and corpse sequences. One of the
allegations in the lawsuit was that the "face ripping" scene
was "stolen" from the Clemens/Yellin "Housebound" treatment, but as can be seen in this 1985 deposition transcript,
we find that actually McCraken came up with the face ripping idea on
the set, on his own, and it wasn't even in the Spielberg/Grais/Victor
script.
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