“Face Off” Creates Monsters Custom-Made for Syfy Movies

If I were a programmer at Syfy – or a producer or writer or director with a special affinity for horror movies – I would pay closer attention to that network’s best series, the makeup competition show “Face Off.” Every week this highly engaging unscripted program offers viewers something they can’t see anywhere else – the creation, from conception and early sketches through to the finished product, with detailed construction and execution along the way – of a dazzling array of fantasy and horror characters that sometimes seem ready for primetime (on Syfy or Chiller) if not for the big screen.