Face Off

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Face Off

2011TMDB 7.1Reality

In this competition/elimination series, special effects make-up artists participate in elaborate challenges for a grand prize and the honor of being Hollywood's next great effects artist.

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About Face Off

In this competition/elimination series, special effects make-up artists participate in elaborate challenges for a grand prize and the honor of being Hollywood's next great effects artist.

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Streaming Snapshot

Release Year

2011

TMDB Rating

7.1

Available Sources

23

Watch Path

/tv/face-off-35370

Seasons & Episodes

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13 seasons available

Season 1

8 episodes | 2011-01-26

The first season of the Syfy reality television series Face Off featured twelve prosthetic makeup artists competing in a series of challenges to create makeup effects. The winner received US$100,000 and a year's supply of makeup. The sea...

Season 1 Welcome to the JungleE1

Welcome to the Jungle

Episode 1
40 min2011-01-26TMDB N/A

The challenge is to create a new human/animal hybrid based from 3 exotic animals that are brought into lab.

Season 1 Naked AmbitionE2

Naked Ambition

Episode 2
40 min2011-02-02TMDB N/A

A full-body makeup challenge for the contestants.

Season 1 Out of this WorldE3

Out of this World

Episode 3
40 min2011-02-09TMDB N/A

Makeup artist Michael Westmore meets the contestants at Vasquez Rocks in Southern California, where episodes of "Star Trek" were shot, and the competitors learn that they must create an alien for a newly discovered world

Season 1 Bad to the BoneE4

Bad to the Bone

Episode 4
40 min2011-02-16TMDB N/A

"Friday the 13th" director Sean Cunningham serves as a guest judge for a challenge that has the contestants creating an original horror-movie villain along with an accompanying movie poster, title and tagline.

Season 1 Switched and HitchedE5

Switched and Hitched

Episode 5
40 min2011-02-23TMDB N/A

In teams of two, the contestants turn brides into grooms and grooms into brides.

Season 1 Dancing DeadE6

Dancing Dead

Episode 6
40 min2011-03-02TMDB N/A

Zombies take over as the seven remaining special effects artists must create an original zombie to avoid the dreaded double elimination on “Dancing Dead”.

Season 1 Family PlotE7

Family Plot

Episode 7
40 min2011-03-09TMDB N/A

The five remaining contestants must disguise themselves to fool their own family members at a Los Angeles wig shop.

Season 1 Twisted TalesE8

Twisted Tales

Episode 8
40 min2011-03-16TMDB N/A

The last challenge has the three remaining contestants creating fairy-tale characters derived from "The Three Little Pigs," "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Hansel and Gretel" for a cocktail-party setting in the first-season finale.

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