alien. i m not buying it, for very good reason. for the people that say the film never existed, there s an exclusive for you. there s a few frames. is there anyone out there who still thinks the alien autopsy is genuine? he sed a he s adamant. he s bought this film. he believes in it. i believe him. and it was kind of left open really. no one could be 100% sure about anything. but ray believes in the film. and i believe him. santilli plans to auction the entire, unrestored original film. he wants no less than $5 million. to have santilli say trust me, i would say to him no. coming up this thing battered its way for a few seconds through the waves. the famous film that brought thousands to the shores of loch ness. whatever it was was just underneath the surface, was
so you make a frame, get lots of bags of clay, and then you literally just manipulate that clay into the shape and form you want. in this case, an alien. it s painted then with special silicone paint. you can then set about doing effects. i got bits and bobs from the butchers. and interpreted what i could see from the pathology going on on the alien in the film as best i could. john even appears in the film. here he is holding the scalpel. i have to take the role of the american scientist pathologist from the original film. i just had to don a radiation outfit and cover myself. that s why you don t see my face in it. that s me doing the pathology. it was a work of pure genius. i m very proud of it, but it is a restoration. the deception goes all the way to oh, okay, well, it was a hoax but now we ll make money telling you how the hoax was done. despite questions about the
instead, santilli says he decides to recreate it with the help of john humphries, a well-known hollywood sculptor. we had frames. we had a lot of images. john was given the responsibility of creating exactly what was on film so that we could dovetail it into the film. and sort of create what would be a seamless 20 minutes. so we plugged the gaps, basically. the alien in the film i saw looked like it had been very badly injured in some kind of incident. there was a big tear around the knee and burns here and there and bruising. i was very shocked, very shocked. humphries says he viewed frames from the original damaged film and was able to replicate the alien seen on the operating table. we didn t make any sculpture. you start with an armature, which is an aluminum frame.
bob heironimus as the guy in the big suit and roger patterson as producer, director and whatever else of this film. just as patterson stood by his story, so, too, does morris. rick baker who is academy award winner eight times said to me one time, he said, phil, that was the worst gorilla suit i ve ever seen in my life. and i said yes, it s true. but think about this. that there were over 10, 20, 30 million people who saw that film of bigfoot walking through the forest and they thought it was a real suit. that s absolutely amazing. at the end of the day when you ve watched this figure stride and you looked at it, i m inclined to agree with the late john napear from the smithsonian who remarked famously i can t see the zipper. and i think that s the most concise way to view what happened.
and copy it onto film. you would have to have facilities like hollywood to do that stuff and in 1996 it just wasn t feasible. the videographer is written off as a fraud. you have two views of the situation. one is that he really did film this and it was real and that he was so taken aback and frightened by the attention that was suddenly put towards him because it would have been a very important piece of evidence if absolutely known to be real. some say he backed off. say he gave the tape to others and said i don t want anything more to do with it and that s why he wouldn t come forward. others say basically that if the footage was real, that he had to be persuaded into silence, that somebody had to pay him or force him to say that he had faked it to drain the energy out of the situation. he was very badly treated, and the people put detectives to find out where he was and he was accused of all sorts of things