Christopher Nolan only wanted to use practical effects for his new movie, "Oppenheimer." Filmmakers used paintings and camera tricks to achieve their effects before computers and CGI. Practical ...

Living in an era where AI is slowly taking over filmmaking, I cannot stop thinking about the time when filmmakers were literally creating special effects manually. From cosmic battles to dystopian ...

Recently, I asked the BuzzFeed Community what they think are the most impressive practical effects in older movies. Here are 11 of their top responses: 1."The entire movie Aliens is loaded with great ...

There’s nothing like a practical effect. CGI simply does not bring the viewer into the narrative in the same way that a physical transformation does. For example, we are obsessed with watching Walton ...

1982's The Thing — a remake of The Thing From Another World three decades earlier — is regarded as one of the best horror movies ever made, thanks to the direction of John Carpenter and the ...