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# Big screen success for Birmingham based special effects studio
- URL: https://www.birminghameastside.co.uk/birmingham-special-effects-father-phantom-studio/
- Published: 2017-10-16T12:48:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-14T10:06:46.000Z
- Author: Birmingham Eastside
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![Prosthetics and makeup special effects at Father Phantom Studios](http://birminghameastside.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/DLS31nvWkAAqJBS.jpg-large.jpeg)

Photo credit: Twitter @FatherPhantom

Halloween's come a few weeks early for one Birmingham business. [Father Phantom Studio](http://fatherphantomstudio.wixsite.com/fatherphantomstudio?ref=birminghameastside.co.uk), based in the Jewellery Quarter has been working on spooky special effects makeup for not one but two upcoming horror films. [Cain Hill](https://twitter.com/cainhillmovie?lang=en&ref=birminghameastside.co.uk) \- based on real life events – follows a group of documentary film makers as they get more than they bargained for when exploring a mysterious asylum. The studio brought the horror to life by creating and applying all the gore makeup that you’d expect from a film featuring an abandoned building and a terrifying figure with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. **Ben Fallaize** and his friend **Laura Viale-Durand** founded Father Phantom Studio in 2014 after working together on a makeup demonstration at London Comic Con. “It’s ambitious, and has that old school horror film vibe we both like” says Laura.

> “It was about creating the correct result for each wound or death. It involved researching wounds from different objects. It was a lot of prosthetics. We kept the designs subtle and believable to match the realistic approach of the film.”

![A screenshot from the film AUX, with makeup and special effects by Father Phantom](http://birminghameastside.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rsz_ea517ced3e6140a8bdde4d6d097744b3.jpg)

Screenshot from AUX (2017)

The second big project for Father Phantom came after a chance encounter at the Cannes Film Festival led to a role behind the scenes for the film [AUX](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4443974/?ref=birminghameastside.co.uk). The studio set about creating a gruesome head–to–toe creature effect for the action horror flick due out in cinemas 10th November.

> “The film has a very interesting concept, and it allowed us to design a great character from head to toes. It was a big makeup, approximately 4 hours in the makeup chair and a great collaboration with the costume department. Seeing the creature on set was great and filming the scene with John Rhys Davies was a brilliant experience.”

There are no signs of Ben and Laura slowing down just yet either. A sneak peek of a top secret project posted to their Twitter feed suggests it has something to do with ‘monkey business’…

> MONKEY BUSINESS ! A test [#makeup](https://twitter.com/hashtag/makeup?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=birminghameastside.co.uk) we did for an upcoming film ! Foam latex appliance by [@woochiefx](https://twitter.com/woochiefx?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=birminghameastside.co.uk) ! [pic.twitter.com/B2oYUsOe9X](https://t.co/B2oYUsOe9X?ref=birminghameastside.co.uk)
> 
> — Father Phantom (@FatherPhantom) [October 4, 2017](https://twitter.com/FatherPhantom/status/915559611209535488?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=birminghameastside.co.uk)