I honestly suspect his face in the pilot was created with a CGI effect rather than makeup. But we'll get into why I suspect that when we get into tomorrow's scene...
Actually, I may be wrong about that and the reason is that I was just going over some of the stuff written with regard to today's sequence in the slideshow and there's conflicting info. But I'll get into that after we deal with how things are presented in the script:
EXT. FAMILY CEMETERY - COLLINWOOD - NIGHT
The dark figure of the Vampire returns, face hidden as he crosses through the gravestones, moving with animal grace.
INT. SECRET ROOM - MAUSOLEUM - NIGHT
The Vampire enters, stopping next to Kelly's body. Strong hands lift her by the hair and her head lolls back, dead, revealing two vivid puncture wounds on her neck. Cold, the hands drop her. The Vampire continues past
WILLIE,
semi-conscious, lying in a pool of blood, throat torn. As Willie MOANS, the Vampire goes to the wall and finds a
RECESSED IRON RING.
He pulls the ring and a secret compartment slides back, revealing the treasure Kelly had been trying to find. As he runs his hand over the gold and jewels, the
FIRST RAYS OF MORNING SUN
filter down from the upper mausoleum. As a shimmer of light hits the floor, the Vampire quickly crosses the secret room and puts his shoulder against the heavy door. Barely conscious, Willie realizes he's about to be sealed in.It's at this point that Willie delivers today's quote -
Page 27 - Willie: 'No, please... NO...'
- then the script continues with:
The door SLAMS SHUT with frightening finality, cutting off Willie's cries. OFF this moment—However, things may have been intended to play differently in the actual pilot because one article (from which I'll be quoting below for a different reason) describes the scene as Barnabas thwarting Willie's weakened attempt to escape, yet in the script Willie makes no attempted escape. But then, as we saw earlier, Willie and Kelly's encounter with Barnabas is different in the pilot than it is in the script, so it would make sense if this scene might have been intended to be different, too. Though we'll probably never know because it was never shot. And with that in mind, here's an excerpt from an article written by our very own Darren Gross (who was lucky enough to have worked on the pilot) that gets into just why that was:
In order to meet the May delivery date, the pilot was edited primarily during the filming, with director Hogan making suggestions and adjustments after the strenuous shooting days were over. Because of the number of location changes and the technical complexity of several sequences, lensing went a day over schedule and the company was constantly making slight dialogue adjustments and script trims in order to stay on time.
This chain of events forced Hogan to drop a thrilling sequence in which Barnabas, having just attacked Carolyn, returns to the Collins crypt's secret room, where he thwarts Willie's weakened effort to escape. This involved creating an interim-stage makeup job between 200-year-old, desiccated Barnabas first found in the crypt (played by Hellboy's Doug Jones) and Newman's normal appearance. (Todd) McIntosh designed an effectively subtle look that made it clear that the rotted crypt creature was indeed Newman's Barnabas and not a different character. McIntosh applied it to Newman for the last two days of shooting, but the scene never went before the cameras when the high-pressure, overbudget production ran out of time.Now, other reports have said that not only was it the case that the scene of Barnabas returning to crypt was never shot, but the makeup created by Todd McIntosh never went before the cameras either. That is what led me to believe that perhaps Barnabas' look in the scene in which he attacks Carolyn was created using CGI. But Darren writes that Alec Newman was in the makeup for two separate days. So, perhaps they did actually shoot him in the makeup for the attack scene and it's just the crypt scene where it wasn't used.
Though I would believe Darren rather than someone on the Internet whose track record at reporting accurate info I know nothing about because, as anyone who reads his posts here knows, Darren's info is always accurate. And for what it's worth, here's a production photo of McIntosh applying the makeup on Newman:
And here's a wonderful publicity photo of Newman in the finished product:
Either way, it's still a shame we never got to see the crypt scene...