This nifty and informative retrospective documentary features an interview with special effects make-up artist Steve Johnson, who talks about all the practical make-up work he did for the offbeat horror comedy cult classic "Highway to Hell." Johnson reveals that he got the gig through a phone call from fellow special effects artist Randy Cook and talks about how he didn't initially get along with director Ate de Jong (Johnson would yell out in the middle of the shooting of scenes whenever Patrick Bergin's contact lens would cross). Moreover, Johnson got the idea for the writing on Hell Cop's face from Clive Barker's "Books of Blood" and based the tongue demon on pictures of starving Ethiopian people. Best of all, Johnson points out that Ben Stiller ad-libbed his dialogue as the short order cook frying eggs on the sidewalk, only got about twenty minutes of sleep the day before the scene with all the zombie cops in the donut shop was shot, and how a severe dust storm occurred on the day that sequence in the donut shop was filmed. Worth watching for fans of "Highway to Hell."
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