Episode
Face Off: Frightful Fiction
Overview
The artists must create a mashup character from famous works of genre literature.
Details
- Series
- Face Off
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 2015-08-18
- Runtime
- 40 min
Episode context
Frightful Fiction is Episode 4 in Season 9 of Face Off. It aired on 2015-08-18. The runtime is 40 min.
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The reality competition celebrates its 100th episode in style when the artists turn real-life couples into whimsically undead duos. Following the challenge, host McKenzie Westmore, who recently became an ordained minster, will perform a marriage ceremony attended by friends and family.
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The artists paired up to create the gatekeeper to an alternate dimension ... and the creature he or she guards.
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