How They Made Annihilation’s SCARE BEAR
Alex Garland’s Annihilation isn’t technically a horror movie, but it contains a couple of highly disturbing scenes that everybody who has seen the flick is talking about. One of these scenes involves an encounter with a monster, and given how every ugly monster design possible has technically been done, the fact that today’s filmgoers could still have the willies scared out of them by one is unexpected. How bad must this thing be? The monster is a bear, mutated by the effects of the Shimmer (which is an off-kilter area created by a crashed meteorite where the laws of nature have run amuck). Due to those effects, its face has been reduced to a disturbing toothy skull. Even creepier, the bear mimics the voice of its last victim, so as it’s running around chasing our hapless heroes, it’s screaming out the distorted calls of anguish from the last human it ate. Annihilation is based on a book, and the bear appears nowhere in it. It’s purely a creation of the