With The Conjuring: Last Rites crossing the $500M mark to become the highest-grossing horror film of 2025, Digital Domain stood at the heart of the film’s supernatural terror. Under the supervision of Alex Millet, the studio delivered 425 shots ranging from invisible fixes to hero sequences: Annabelle’s monstrous transformation into a 12-foot stalker, Abigail Arnold’s unnerving smile, the haunted mirror’s shattering hallway nightmare, and an entire Pennsylvania mill town built in CG. Armed with Houdini, Nuke, Maya, Solaris, Photoshop, and V-Ray, the team balanced photorealism with dread, crafting visuals that were frighteningly real without ever slipping into camp. We sat down with Millet to discuss scope, artistry, and the technical pipelines behind conjuring digital horror.
Meet Alex Millet (IMDB | Linkedin), a familiar face in the world of visual effects and someone whose résumé reads like a tour through modern cinema. Currently Visual Effects Supervisor at Digital Domain, Alex b...
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