5 Family Movies That Were Pure Nightmare Fuel Behind-The-Scenes

Well, it turns out that this creation wasn’t just CGI; they actually built baby Jack for real – presumably because digital technology can only traumatize children so much. The animatronic puppet was a weirdly accurate recreation of Black’s head – albeit one stuck on top of a genital-less baby body.

And footage of the crew passing around this bearded monstrosity as if it were a loved one’s newborn sure adds to the ick-factor.

Hopefully, the producers kept the prop stored safely somewhere, just in case they ever get the go-ahead to make High Fidelity Babies.

3 The Santa Clause Crew Showed Off Santa’s Dismembered Torso (Butt And All)

It’s no secret that the Santa Clause franchise is a tangled web of yuletide lunacy, so perhaps it’s appropriate that the making of the movie also straddled the line of madness. First of all, the offices tasked with coming up with the film’s many impressive special effects looked less like a Christmas-y wonderland and more like a serial killer’s basement. Hopefully, no one brought their kids to meet Santa’s eight (headless) reindeer.

And rather than have Tim Allen go full DeNiro in Raging Bull, or simply push a portly gentleman off of a roof to obtain all of his attributes, Tim Allen’s Santa bod was achieved via prosthetics that, at some stages, gave him a real “heading over to Leatherface’s place for dinner” vibe.

Not to mention the truly distressing sight of Santa’s dismembered torso, seemingly purchased from the Buffalo Bill collection, which shook like a bowl full of jelly when groped by reporters.