The Face Off Season 9 finale is here! We finally get to see the mini-movies the series has been hyping all season.
We left off in part 1 with the artists learning that they needed to create a third character for their movie. Cause, of course they weren’t going to get multiple days to tweak two makeups. But to make it a little less daunting, and to bring back even more eliminated Face Off contestants, each artist gets 1 more person to help them out. Ricky, Libby and Jason are claimed by Nora, Evan and Ben respectively.
Nora’s got to make an Ally to her Prey character. Ben’s new character is a female that has to seduce his creature character. (Ben’s strong suit isn’t pretty makeups, so we’ll see how that goes.) Evan needs to make a character that is the fully-infected version of his other 2 characters. He also has to re-create his second character, so he’s got the most work to do.
After all the new characters are created & packed up, each team does their final application in a trailer on-set. On day one, Nora gets to shoot during the day while Ben shoots his scenes at night. Nora’s whole experience goes pretty well. Although why did they give her tree-like character a roar like a big cat? It was an odd choice.
As Jason is working on Ben’s new character’s makeup application, the edges of the prosthetic get all wonky. One more time this season, we get to hear Jason talk about how the makeup just isn’t working out & it isn’t going to be as beautiful as it should be. I hope things work out for Jason in his professional life, because they never seem to on Face Off.
I didn’t like how the beauty makeup didn’t seem to work in the world of the priest/resurrected character. And would you really be resurrecting the dead if you were going to be so scared of the resurrected creature if he gave you a dirty look. THAT’s all it takes to send you over the edge? Really? That’s some wussy dead-resurrecting priest.
The next day it’s Evan’s turn, and he’s made the most changes between the test shoot and this final shoot. The judges seem to like what he’s done & how his team works together. I don’t really understand how a virus can transform a person into a creature so completely in the span of a few years but bah! Scientific details! I mean, if it had been an evolutionary character, that would be one thing…
Time to crown a winner! Apparently it’s cold on set because McKenzie has pants instead of something from her usual soap opera dress collection. Her top is sparkly, though.
I also see that most of the eliminated contestants are there (where’d Omar go?). Bummer for the folks that didn’t get to come back & help out the finalists.
The other thing about this finale set – what’s with the huge blank space in the very center? I know they’re trying to replicate the whole mainstage look but with the camera angle from up above it’s just boring. Did that bother anyone else?
So who won Face Off Season 9? The winner is:
Nora!
Congrats! And congrats to all the contestants this season. Hopefully you’re all gainfully employed in special effects makeup by now.
What did you guys think of the finale to Face Off, and the rest of season 9? Should I recap these again? Let me know below!