20 Things You Somehow Missed In Ghostbusters

14. The Stay Puft Suit

Ghostbusters movie
Columbia Pictures

Sometimes, the filmmaking illusion can be broken when it's impossible to look at a movie monster and not be able to think about how it's just a guy in a suit.

With multiple head-pieces to swap between and puppeteer work to pull his expressions, the Marshmallow Man's attack was a stunning sequence in 1984. Some of the effects have aged poorly, but others are still a testament to practical work.

Any shots looking down at Mr Stay Puft were filmed on a huge soundstage with a fully constructed Central Park West for him to stomp around, complete with toy cars. In one moment, a hydrant erupts: launching tiny blue sand that looks, in the finished film, like water.

Billy Bryan was the man inside the suit who dealt with being set fire to and asked to clamber up the side of Spook Central. We can only assume he didn't smell like toasted marshmallow afterwards.

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