Winged monkey costume test for The Wizard of Oz. (c. 1938)

insaneinthebrainzz · 2012-10-14T18:20:05+00:00

They always gave me the fear. And still do.

Incidentally, bet they'd love this in /r/Moviesinthemaking

slugmaniac · 2012-10-14T20:06:57+00:00

Is seth green's face based off this?

Improvisor · 2012-10-14T21:21:18+00:00

I got that reference!

Justwokeup · 2012-10-14T19:13:24+00:00

And the night mares begin.. again.

spatchka · 2012-10-14T20:22:39+00:00

Immediately made me think of this awesome music video.

CompleteNumpty · 2012-10-14T21:07:48+00:00

Smithers..... continue the research.

ThundurCats · 2012-10-14T21:20:31+00:00

ben stiller anyone

weegee · 2012-10-14T21:58:25+00:00

just as scary now as it was then

thedrewdotcom · 2012-10-14T20:10:21+00:00

Thats fuckin scary as hell.

The reason I have only seen The Wizard of Oz once, and never again.

BWLGeorge · 2012-10-14T18:11:53+00:00

"Kill me..."

yodaddadadda · 2012-10-14T22:21:40+00:00

My three year old daughter really got into the Wizartd of Oz this summer, and to prevent her from freaking out during the winged monkey part, I would always say something like "Those silly monkeys!" and she would reply with a laugh and say "Yeah. Silly monkeys!" But now that's her favorite part and whenever anybody asks her about the Wizard of Oz, she tells them that she likes the winged monkeys and she always gets the craziest looks in return.

electriophile · 2012-10-15T00:32:21+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/xrA8H.jpg

ThundurCats · 2012-10-14T21:19:45+00:00

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJy-7-0kCNKyvDPoQ7uA4H4TzMCo7OliYjAB5McO5hn5L_xCy5

bebop-a-lula · 2012-10-14T22:14:36+00:00

I'm getting more of a tom waits vibe

half_entente · 2012-10-14T19:47:30+00:00

How did I miss the tiny hats they wore?

weepingmeadow · 2012-10-14T20:14:02+00:00

/r/creepy

ShipsPonys · 2012-10-14T20:28:11+00:00

he looks like seth green.

k3vk3vk3vin · 2012-10-14T20:31:27+00:00

So is that the big bird-like creature you can see in the background at one point in the movie?

dee_007 · 2012-10-14T20:35:24+00:00

These things gave me nightmares!

cerebralshrike · 2012-10-14T20:50:56+00:00

They still creep the living crap out of me. Get away!

Inugami · 2012-10-14T21:02:07+00:00

After 20 years of fighting young heretics and killers!

FoxBattalion79 · 2012-10-14T21:03:49+00:00

I thought that read "costume contest" and I clicked on it and I was like woah I bet that was the guy that won.

ans84 · 2012-10-14T21:06:14+00:00

I was in a high school version of this circa 2000, and the flying monkeys rode around in roller blades. One of them threatened to drop kick my yorkie named Toto -- who played Toto -- into the mezzanine. I was terrified of the monkeys as a child, and that just solidified my terror.

Apollonius_Cone · 2012-10-14T21:11:59+00:00

"Fly you fools!"

"I'll get you my pretty and your little dog too!"

adolfojacosta · 2012-10-14T21:14:08+00:00

Aaaaand now I won't be sleeping tonight.

GAMERBOB93 · 2012-10-14T21:26:22+00:00

poor Sid

Mitochondria420 · 2012-10-14T21:37:14+00:00

Rocheasaurus · 2012-10-14T21:58:23+00:00

and now my nightmares are complete

coach_styles · 2012-10-14T22:01:01+00:00

I think the general consensus here is, fuck those monkeys.

Darkening · 2012-10-14T22:04:46+00:00

And when they get off work, they go to their gig at Radio City.

Forever_Awkward · 2012-10-14T22:05:34+00:00

George Bush is such an angel!

Naggers123 · 2012-10-14T22:09:27+00:00

'What you lookin' at'

TheWarpedOne · 2012-10-14T22:13:21+00:00

Chrisopher Lloyd is amazing!

fourvalleys · 2012-10-14T22:16:21+00:00

Looks like the best Sufjan Stevens concert ever.

JTyler82 · 2012-10-14T22:16:49+00:00

Today on Jack ass

Daveyg1two3 · 2012-10-14T22:20:02+00:00

He looks like TomWaits!

KingToasty · 2012-10-14T22:20:33+00:00

That doesn't look aerodynamic.

floydbarber253 · 2012-10-14T22:21:27+00:00

Lol they underlined win.

c53x12 · 2012-10-14T22:30:33+00:00

Still one of the creepiest fuckin' things ever put on film.

completelydiff · 2012-10-14T22:37:49+00:00

Can one purchase a replica flying monkey anywhere online?

I have tried unsuccessfully a few times, and any suggestions would be welcome.

When I was a kid, biulding Frankenstein's Monster, the Werewolf and Dracula from model kits was almost required. A flying monkey has never to my knowledge been available, and I still want one, ether a model kit or a premade item.

schmose · 2012-10-14T22:38:45+00:00

Fezzes are cool.

ozpunk · 2012-10-14T22:39:33+00:00

/r/creepy

lightzout · 2012-10-14T22:40:17+00:00

Scariest moment of my childhood!

mr_nuggets · 2012-10-14T22:54:51+00:00

Had nightmares about the flying monkeys...or more accurately, I was afraid to fall asleep.

exwhale · 2012-10-14T23:24:02+00:00

So many nightmares... shudder

balancedchaos · 2012-10-14T23:35:45+00:00

Well, I have my nightmare for tonight. Thanks.

lawless6776 · 2012-10-14T23:52:17+00:00

The costume for the monkeys is a west point Cadet uniform (circa whatever). Because West Point would not let part of the movie to be shot at west point.

GrandmaTITMilk · 2012-10-14T23:53:50+00:00

I have and always will hate those fuckers. I was scared shitless as a kid because of them. Gave me nightmares for years

ToadLickr · 2012-10-15T00:01:43+00:00

Joseph Kittinger's Ikarus Mark II jumping gear.

dwohio · 2012-10-15T00:01:45+00:00

It looks like a fuzzy George W. Bush.

RonWisely · 2012-10-15T00:05:03+00:00

This was my Halloween costume a couple years ago.

T_Dumbsford · 2012-10-15T00:05:39+00:00

Hey OP, thanks for a great post that doesn't reference a movie from the past five years. Good stuff.

b33r33b · 2012-10-15T00:06:24+00:00

This movie was ahead of it's time. Love.

teh_man01 · 2012-10-15T00:11:21+00:00

We had to watch this movie for language arts in school a couple weeks ago.

p0enut · 2012-10-15T00:12:43+00:00

The flying monkeys always creeped me out. That movie was WAY ahead of its time in terms of makeup/effects/cinematography. A true classic....but...yeah..the monkeys? scary as shit.

applegrumble · 2012-10-15T00:13:35+00:00

ON OF THE SCARIEST THINGS OF ALL TIME. AAARGH.

WindyDeathTrap · 2012-10-15T00:15:38+00:00

Goldar from Power Rangers

Baboo, also from Power Rangers

A_Midsummer_Poop · 2012-10-15T00:16:25+00:00

So, that's what a nightmare looks like.

harbingeralpha · 2012-10-15T00:18:19+00:00

Horrifying and fantastic.

audiofreque · 2012-10-15T00:21:29+00:00

absolutely the scariest thing ever.

bitwise97 · 2012-10-15T00:34:37+00:00

These things gave me nightmares when I was kid. I would say their test was a success.

DonaldRaper · 2012-10-15T00:36:15+00:00

LARGE WIN

YoSoyElDiablo · 2012-10-15T00:46:09+00:00

My favorite movie ever.

finger_of_god · 2012-10-15T01:03:51+00:00

Winged monkey nightmare test for The Wizard of Oz. (c. 1938)

srroberts07 · 2012-10-15T01:06:07+00:00

Jerry Stiller. Looks exactly like Frank Costanza.

Butterspud · 2012-10-15T01:14:00+00:00

Looks like Tom Waits

thinkt4nk · 2012-10-15T01:15:42+00:00

xpost to /r/creepy?

CAPSLOCKFTW · 2012-10-15T01:15:43+00:00

this belongs in r/nosleep

daleok · 2012-10-15T01:18:50+00:00

Was briefly considered by Felix Baumgartner for his jump.

superanth · 2012-10-15T01:19:00+00:00

When does he make his jump from 24 miles into space?

fishforbrains · 2012-10-15T01:22:57+00:00

Just me or a strong resemblance to Bush?

EvilGeniusCartier · 2012-10-15T01:24:12+00:00

Wow, Jerry Stiller has been in the business a long time.

ZXMFYU · 2012-10-15T01:26:06+00:00

Those things scared the hell out of me when I was little.

fulham · 2012-10-15T01:26:46+00:00

Best. Movie. Ever.

ermahgerditsAMY · 2012-10-15T01:28:21+00:00

This movie is positively wonderful. There's an entire book regarding the making of the movie with the original costume tests for all the major characters, as well as other actors who were considered along the way.

There was a huge possibility that Dorothy would be played by Shirley Temple.

Paraptorkeet · 2012-10-15T01:37:45+00:00

I've always thought the winged monkeys looked a bit like Tom Waits

LordLeRoy · 2012-10-15T01:42:33+00:00

Interesting story. When I was a child and my mom and I would go to the store (a local Meijer for anyone who is around the great lakes region), she would point out this man that worked there that was extremely old and rather short and she always told me that he was one of the monkeys in The Wizard of Oz. Well I just got around around to doing my research and his name is Danny Windsor. It always made me excited when she would point him out to me. I don't think he still works there though. I haven't seen him in many years. Source http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_anyone_who_acted_in_the_Wizard_of_Oz_movie_still_alive

Piscator629 · 2012-10-15T01:51:18+00:00

I have known the lead monkey for years . He was a good friend of my mothers. He worked as a door greeter at a local Miejers supermarket (basically a walmart) for years. He was only 16-17 when he worked on Oz. he did say that those people knew how to party and he hung out with Mickey Rooney and Judy Gardner for years after the film.

edit He was also fabulously Gay.

eldonte · 2012-10-15T02:06:54+00:00

Ridiculous Halloween costume

BigHurt0313 · 2012-10-15T02:31:43+00:00

Ben Stiller?

Deconstruction_Z · 2012-10-15T02:52:16+00:00

It's Wes Borland

piclemaniscool · 2012-10-15T03:03:33+00:00

TIL many people have a fear of the winged monkeys. And here I thought it was just my uncle.

SheWasAHurricane · 2012-10-15T03:26:43+00:00

Saw SD Dawson and immediately thought: Shane Dawson?

KratosOdinSon · 2012-10-15T03:31:03+00:00

So awesome!

TokyoXtreme · 2012-10-15T03:31:12+00:00

Oh, it's Kevin McDonald from Kids in the Hall.

bernando2 · 2012-10-15T04:02:59+00:00

ben stiller?

HoboHands · 2012-10-15T04:51:20+00:00

Aww! Ben Stiller's first audition pics! He was so young.

paulthezombie · 2012-10-15T04:58:07+00:00

Ron Perlman?

SporkTsar · 2012-10-15T05:01:35+00:00

Tom Waits?!?!

tacojuan · 2012-10-15T05:14:12+00:00

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_layrufdKeE1qcg50qo1_500.jpg

vegandread · 2012-10-15T05:53:46+00:00

Ben Stiller?

yaners · 2012-10-15T06:34:25+00:00

I don't know about any of you, but I just clicked back and forth between this link a few times, just to fully grasp how hilarious he looks in that costume.

zerg886 · 2012-10-15T06:42:08+00:00

Grandpa?

skonen_blades · 2012-10-15T07:19:25+00:00

Man the guy in that costume gives no fucks. Look at him. He's just like "Yeah? So?"

hummingbird910 · 2012-10-15T07:24:41+00:00

Mom would come running when the flying monkeys came on because we all started screaming.

another_old_fart · 2012-10-15T07:39:05+00:00

Those are the LARGE wings? Wow.

bondinferno · 2012-10-14T22:07:51+00:00

I just pooed a little

section111 · 2012-10-14T21:43:41+00:00

People in this thread have said Seth Green, Ben Stiller, but I submit this looks like the incomparable Jason Flemyng.

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