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There’s something to say about Rob Bottin: among a large number of very good
creations, there may be one which probably gave him a huge wealth, and we
are talking about “Robocop”. This intriguing character has had a brief but notable life: three movies, a cartoon serie, a live-action TV show, and even a comic serie titled “Robocop vs. Terminator” where Earth is invaded by terminators and Robocop has to find all them… Rob Bottin did other odd things: in “Fog” he did personally play the evil ghost he had created, and could not have the award nomination for “The thing” due to some absurde rules. In fact he was not considered as a “special effects” technician but as a make-up man, also if he probably did not use lip-sticks… Maybe he didn’t invent anything new, but he remains one of the most important technicians of his category, also if we don’t |
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consider “Robocop”. Filmography 1978: Piranha 1979: Fog 1981: The howling 1982: The thing 1983: The twilight zone 1987: Innerspace 1987: Robocop |
1990: Robocop 2 1990: Total recall 1993: Robocop 3 1995: Seven 1996: Mission: Impossible 1997: Mimic 1997: The devil’s advocate 1998: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1999: Fight club 2000: Charlie’s angels |
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