Paul Champion
6 minute short
Eel
Girl is a very short film but this does not underplay its effectiveness. It is
dark, moody and has strong erotic overtones. In a military laboratory, a
scientist has become obsessed with the half-human half-eel creature he’s
studying. When she beckons him to her, it’s the call of a siren, his hormones
are raging, he cannot resist her call and the results are dire.
The
CGI, special effects and make up are utterly convincing. I am not surprised to
learn that the makeup for the eel girl
took four makeup artists nearly four hours to apply, and Weta Workshop needed
over 45 gallons of black methocyl, the thick black liquid to fill the eel
girl’s strange bathtub. Indeed, this
short ended up using some thirty seven visual effects shots to create what is
quite an arresting short. It is certainly worth seeing..