Gallery: How Two Guys Made an Awesome Alien Movie With $3M
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The Vicious Brothers wanted their alien design in *Extraterrestrial* to evoke classic pop culture ETs. (And those posters on dorm room walls.)
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Unlike the traditional design, however, the aliens in *Extraterrestrial* are nine feet tall.
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In the world of the filmmakers, aliens have many different tools.
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And the most important one just happens to be an anal probe.
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For the torture scene, the probe itself was a mechanical device, but nearly everything else was CGI.
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The Vicious Brothers originally envisioned their torture scenes as featuring multiple devices...
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...but more torture devices meant way more CGI shots than the filmmakers had time (or money) to make.
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Fear not, bleeding hearts: The character on the receiving end of the probe is someone the Vicious Brothers ensured the audience wouldn't mind seeing treated so...invasively.
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The walls of the room were even redone with CGI to give them the right look.
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As a mix of horror and sci-fi, *Extraterrestrial* isn't short on gore.
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