15 Bizarre Things Used For Iconic Movie Special Effects
![15 Bizarre Things Used For Iconic Movie Special Effects](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/7/763337_320x180.jpg)
Big-budget movies are so polished, you’d think they used nothing but custom-made props, produced from high-end materials. But sometimes, they just resort to using weird and/or everyday things that somebody on the production team realized would work great. For example:
![Some of Gollum's spit in the Lord of The Rings movies is actually Andy Serkis' own spit. Gollum sometimes spits when he's talking excitedly, and they](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/2/763532.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![The poop Samwell had to clean on Game of Thrones was wet fruitcake. They soaked fruitcake in water, and then sculpted it into poop-like forms. Shootin](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/4/763524.jpg)
Source: 7 Special FX That Were Made Out Of Food (And Super Gross)
![The information discs that programs wear on their backs in Tron are really Frisbees. Frisbee coach Sam Schatz was hired to train the actors how to use](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/1/763531.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![The slime on the drawers in the library in Ghostbusters is a Chinese food starch methyl silos. CRACKEDGOM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/6/763526.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![In the villain's aquarium in Dr. No, that's just stock footage of fish swimming. The movie could only afford to buy footage of goldfish-sized fish, so](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/7/763527.jpg)
Source: The Guardian, IMDB
![The T-Rex's roar in Jurassic Park is a blend of a tiger snarling, a baby elephant squealing, and an alligator gurgling.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/3/763533.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![The giant computer in the Pentagon's Space Command in Independence is an actual, decommissioned Air Force computer. Called the AN/FSQ-7, it was a revo](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/9/763529.jpg)
Source: WIRED, Starring The Computer
![In The Wizard of Oz, they used chocolate syrup instead of machine oil. Real machine oil just didn't look that good on camera, so the Tin Man's tears a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/3/763523.jpg)
Source: Today.com
![A garbage bag was used for the titles in The Thing. THING THE The lettering was on the back of a fish tank filled with smoke, behind part of a plastic](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/5/763525.jpg)
Source: Art of the Title
![In the 2012 Les Mis movie, Anne Hathaway sang next to decomposing fish. The barrels of fish around her during the song I Dreamed a Dream were filled](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/8/763528.jpg)
Source: 5 Famous Movies That Used Horrifying Substances for Effects
![The snow in It's A Wonderful Life was a mix of 000 gallons of sugar, water, and soap flakes, combined with foamite (the stuff in fire extinguishers).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/0/763530.jpg)
Source: 7 Special FX That Were Made Out Of Food (And Super Gross)
![The actors playing dead people in Day of the Dead had to keep their faces above rotting meat for hours. They'd lay under a false floor, leaving only t](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/2/763522.jpg)
Source: 7 Special FX That Were Made Out Of Food (And Super Gross)
![The river of s*t' Andy Dufresne had to crawl through in The Shawshank Redemption was sawdust and chocolate syrup.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/9/763519.jpg)
Source: 7 Special FX That Were Made Out Of Food (And Super Gross)
![Ash's android insides in Alien were made of caviar, pasta, glass marbles, and water dyed white. Ridley Scott wanted the insides to be gross but not hu](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/1/763521.jpg)
Source: 7 Special FX That Were Made Out Of Food (And Super Gross)
![Newborns in movies are covered in grape jelly and cream cheese. Apparently, slathering a baby in that is the most convincing option for a realistic-lo](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/0/763520.jpg)
Source: 7 Special FX That Were Made Out Of Food (And Super Gross)