In this competition/elimination series, special effects make-up artists participate in elaborate challenges for a grand prize and the honor of being Hollywood's next great effects artist.
Episodes
Welcome to the Jungle
The challenge is to create a new human/animal hybrid based from 3 exotic animals that are brought into lab.
Out of this World
Makeup artist Michael Westmore meets the contestants at Vasquez Rocks in Southern California, where episodes of "Star Trek" were shot, and the competitors learn that they must create an alien for a newly discovered world
Bad to the Bone
"Friday the 13th" director Sean Cunningham serves as a guest judge for a challenge that has the contestants creating an original horror-movie villain along with an accompanying movie poster, title and tagline.
Switched and Hitched
In teams of two, the contestants turn brides into grooms and grooms into brides.
Dancing Dead
Zombies take over as the seven remaining special effects artists must create an original zombie to avoid the dreaded double elimination on “Dancing Dead”.
Family Plot
The five remaining contestants must disguise themselves to fool their own family members at a Los Angeles wig shop.
Twisted Tales
The last challenge has the three remaining contestants creating fairy-tale characters derived from "The Three Little Pigs," "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Hansel and Gretel" for a cocktail-party setting in the first-season finale.
Top Cast
Glenn Hetrick
Self - Judge
Michael Westmore
Self - Mentor
McKenzie Westmore
Self - Host
Neville Page
Self - Judge
Ve Neill
Self - Judge
