'V/H/S/Halloween': How Rick Baker Cameo Came Together in 'Home Haunt'

There are few figures in movie history that have become more synonymous with their craft than Rick Baker . He won the inaugural Academy Award for makeup in 1982 for “An American Werewolf in London” — the first of eight wins over his five-decade career. He designed Mos Eisely’s barfly scum for “Star Wars,” created dozens of Gremlins for “The New Batch” and covered Jim Carrey in green fur for “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” before retiring in 2010. But for someone who has created some of the most memorable transformations ever put to screen, Baker has a somewhat surprising genre aversion.

“I’ve done gore, but I’m not actually a real big slasher-hound,” he says. “People don’t believe this, but I’m squeamish. If I cut myself, I pass out.”

Nonetheless, Baker consented to getting his head l