Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film

2019 • 86 minutes

About this movie

For over a century, make-up artists have dazzled audiences by creating extraordinary characters and creatures on screen. 50 years ago, a group of ambitious make-up artists led by John Chambers and Tom Burman ushered in a new era of cinema with their groundbreaking work on Planet of the Apes. Featuring interviews with the original make-up team along with artists who were influenced by them, actors who wore the make-up, filmmakers, historians and more, Making Apes tells the emotional and thrilling story of how Hollywood was changed forever.

Ratings and reviews

Before the DVD boom of the 2000s, the movie length AMC documentary 'Behind the Planet of the Apes' was one of the very few "special features" type of genre entertainment out there. 20ys later, well into the streaming craze, this new Apes Doc takes all that older info and anecdotes and freshens it up nicely!The interviews are all older cinema veterans and legends and is told in a pleasing, simple style, with bts pictures, clips and poster images. These stories are the best. I loved watching this!

It was very nice to see the history of these films and also a bit about the history of make up and special affects