STAR TREK's Snow Monster Was Two Parts Lobster One Part Rectum

Concept artists get inspiration from many sources including loathsome diseases. When concept artist Page was assigned the task of creating a monstrous snow creature for the 2008 J.J Abrams film, Star Trek, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) Big Red, a lobster-hued snow-planet scourge that shows up to attack James T. Kirk. "The brief was, it needs the most disgusting mouth," Page says. He considered crabby, finger-like oral appendages, then decided there's nothing ickier than the sight of a prolapsed rectum.