this is my favorite special effects shot of all time. a single continuous take. no cuts. no…

roboco-san:

roboco-san:

this is my favorite special effects shot of all time. a single continuous take. no cuts. no compositing. no camera tricks. and, I cannot stress this enough, no mirrors. I love it so much.

they filmed it with linda hamilton’s actual real life twin, and did it this way so that they could have a dummy stand in for arnold in the foreground, allowing them to convincingly pull the cylinder out of his skull while he talks them through it in the “mirror”