The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed (2001)

This collage of interviews with the producers John Hurt and the makeup man comes off as both interesting and informative Hurts recollections about the role and the crazy makeup he worked in are fascinating as are the stories about the makeup artist using the real remains of John Merrick archived in the London hospital A shorter bit has the artist explaining the exact construction of his amibitious makup and he also narrates a slide show that includes color photos of the finished work There are some mindboggling stills of the real Merricks grotesquely contorted skull where excess bone seems to have grown like tallow dripping from a horrible candle or a foaming tumor of excess calcification