The scene above is from "Videodrome" which featured a stomach turned tape player that could gobble up anything from guns to hands. This movie won an Oscar for make-up, for these groundbreeaking effects. This type of effect causes a reaction in all viewers because it deals with something so unknown, our insides, and the unstoppable transformation of them, which is a fear all humans could relate to.
The scene above is from "The Fly" (1986), a movie starring Jeff Goldblum as a scientist working on an experiment gona awry that slowly turns him into a fly. This movie dealt alot with people's fear of new science, like cloning and gene stamping, which was just becoming understood. The special effects needed to make this movie were mainly just prosthetics, make-up and clever costuming; for example, in the scene above, "Goldblum wore foam rubber appliances on his head, neck, arms, feet, and abdomen. Various pieces of foam were put under his clothes to suggest a misshapen form underneath. He also wore another wig with sparse hair, and custom-made dentures to show Brundle's crooked teeth". Later in the development of the fly, Goldblum had to wear a full body suit, dentures, and make-up that took six hours to apply, and he eventually became a puppet. One of the reasons this movie is so creepy is because of the uncanny valley aspect of 'Brundlefly', being part human part fly, something unknown and feared.
Overall Croneberg's view on special effects really allows him to utilize them like any other tool in th ecreation of a subversive and intriguing movie, "For me, special effects are just another tool to have in your toolbox. You use it if you need it. But you don’t insist that you use the screwdriver when the hammer is really what you need. I don’t think of effects as being any more special than costume, lighting, camera angles, choice of lens, editing, and all those normal cinematic devices".
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