Now revisit the abomination’s scenes for yourself and witness a dead raccoon voiced by Randy Newman spit in God’s eye
Together you and me,A raccoon sings this song to his human buddy, a hibachi chef, in Everything Everywhere All at Once. The raccoon is voiced by Randy Newman, the song is a jaunty little ditty. The scene is a sweet idyll riffing on Pixar tropes …
… But it is secretly a filmed document of Cronenbergian mutilation and body horror that makes the fox from Antichrist look like Paddington Bear. The Ringer has revealed that Raccacoonie used “an actual taxidermied raccoon as a skeleton for both internal machinery and external prosthetics.” In other words, they split open a raccoon corpse and outfitted it with robot parts to bring its body to shambling life beyond death. Makeup-and-effects supervisor Jason Hamer didn’t want it to be this way.
And consider poor Harry Shum Jr., who had to wear the 15-pound reanimated roadkill on his head, and who apparently entered some sort of Stockholm Syndrome relationship with it. Shum Jr. “appreciated the use of practical effects … eschewing CGI for Raccacoonie,” per the Ringer. At least the raccoon wasn’t really pulling his hair; they outfitted his little claws with extensions. .
Sources The Ringer This publication previously spelled the monstrosity’s name with two sets of double c’s — indulgent, really — but the Ringer piece uses only a sober three.