What makes a great practical effect? Though the rise of CGI and other post-production effects have romanticized the days of physical, tactile special effects, elevating even some middling rubber masks to “they don’t make them like they used to” status, there are still several routes this measurement could take.
Maybe you value the way such effects are on the same physical level as the actors — think Alien’s Bishop (Lance Henriksen) and his android insides spilling all over the floor, still cognizant — or, maybe, you’re a fan of the creativity required to make such effects look worth the effort.
(Who doesn’t love Jeff Goldblum’s body falling apart in the 1986 remake of The Fly?)…
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