The makeup effects for John Landis' prologue segment and George Miller's 'Nightmare at 20'000 Feet' segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie were handled by Craig Reardon.
For the prologue, Reardon applied a makeup on Dan Aykroyd, inspired both by his unused head prop on 'Poltergeist', as well as Lon Chaney's makeups in London After Midnight and Phantom of the Opera.
For 'Nightmare', to realize the gremlin suit Reardon worked with Michael McCracken, with some assistance from Michael Shawn McCracken @michaelshawnmccracken and Reardon's own parents (his mother applied the quills on the gremlin suit)
Larry Cedar wore the gremlin suit, suspended by a harness. There was cable controlled mechanisms inside the gremlin's head, which was modeled after a red-faced monkey at George Miller's suggestion.
