The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed 22 years old

This collage of interviews with the producers, John Hurt, and the makeup man comes off as both interesting and informative. Hurt's recollections about the role and the crazy makeup he worked in, are fascinating, as are the stories about the makeup artist using the real remains of John Merrick archived in the London hospital. A shorter bit has the artist explaining the exact construction of his amibitious makup, and he also narrates a slide show that includes color photos of the finished work. There are some mind-boggling stills of the real Merrick's grotesquely contorted skull, where excess bone seems to have grown like tallow dripping from a horrible candle, or a foaming tumor of excess calcification.

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The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed Cast

Name Character
John Hurt He was 61, 77 years old when he died
Mel Brooks He was 75, now 98 years old
Freddie Francis He was 83, 89 years old when he died
Jonathan Sanger He was 57, now 80 years old

The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed Crew

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The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed (22 years)

  • Release day: Tuesday, December 11, 2001
  • Runtime: 30 minutes