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Before and After VFX Shot From ‘Final Destination 5’ Reveals How Much Work Goes Into a Scene

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A cool GIF has made its way online that shows the same clip from 2011’s horror thriller Final Destination 5, only it’s been spliced with a before-and-after VFX presentation. The clip is from the collapsing suspension bridge scene and the top of the GIF shows everything pre-VFX while the bottom shows the final product.

It’s fascinating seeing such an intricate and catastrophic scene being played out without the final perspective fully known (even ending up as one of the more accurate bridge destruction sequences in film history). Each actor simply had to have faith in the VFX team to make what they were doing believable, even the guy who jumped across the “gap”, grabbed onto the ledge, and then fell into a pile of seemingly delightfully soft green screen pillows! Also, you’ll notice more and more with each view of the GIF, so be sure to give it a couple of passes.

Related: Is ‘Final Destination’ the Best Horror Franchise in History?

In Final Destination 5:

During a bus ride with his colleagues to a corporate retreat, Sam experiences a horrifying vision: the suspension bridge that they — and many others — are crossing starts to crumble around them. When his vision ends and, almost immediately, starts to come true, Sam takes quick action that saves a number of people, including his girlfriend, Molly, and his best friend, Peter. However, the survivors soon find that Death will not be denied.

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Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Is Now Available to Watch at Home!

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After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.

You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!

Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.

Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”

“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.

She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.

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