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Dan Rebert and his team have created ghosts and goblins and creatures mutated larger-than-life for television shows, such as True Blood and Six Feet Under, and films, including Slither and the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still.
The company’s Arleta production studio, while not large, is crammed full of bodies. Not all of them are human. Or real.
“It’s all just rubber and plastic,” Rebert says with a laugh, leading the way into a holding cell of deformed creatures and mutilated skulls.
“This was used for a movie called The New Daughter,” he says, striding nonchalantly up to a dummy of a naked woman with her stomach half-torn out. He pauses, shrugs and says, “Mole people.” Naturally.
Rebert, who sports a hoodie and a long ponytail, says he fell into this line of work “because I didn’t want to get a real job.” Despite his chosen profession, Rebert never wanted to experience actual blood and guts — as a teen, he even declined an offer from his district attorney father to witness an autopsy. (He ended up watching a video of the procedure instead.)
“You look at horribly gory things like this,” Rebert says, referring to the female dummy. “This is a magic trick to me. It’s interesting to try to simulate flesh and try to fool somebody. In real life, I have a hard time looking at this stuff. I’m actually squeamish when it comes to real stuff.”
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