Film Flies - Realistic Artificial Insects - Film Prop Rentals amazing life-size reproductions, each individually hand made

Film Flies specializes in design, fabrication and rental of realistic insect replicas for filming, photography, and advertising. Realistic detailed insects are time consuming to create, and typically not available for purchase. Film Flies - realistic insect props have solved a number of logistical problems for Hollywood film studios including Disney, Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, HBO, Netflix, NBC Universal Television,... Professional service and attention to detail are the cornerstones of this progressive and innovative company

2019 - four realistic life size Wasp Props custom made for a Sean Penn movie



Film Flies makes the most realistic, lifelike insect props available for the motion picture industry

Most any species can be replicated with exquisite detail

Film Flies provides Prompt, Courteous and Professional Service...

Species include: Realistic houseflies, bees, wasps, yellow jackets, spiders, butterflies, cockroaches, mosquito's, bedbugs, crickets, beetles, grasshoppers, dragonflies, mayflies, stoneflies, caddis flies, ants, termites, scorpions, arachnids, maggots, horse flies, centipedes, millipedes, inch-worms, caterpillars, weevils, etc, as well as salamanders, small turtles, crayfish, slugs, etc...

realistic Honey Bee props made for Disney, rented numerous times thereafter

fake mosquito props - with and without blood filled bodies

Beautiful durable Butterfly props

Iridescent Butterfly props

Putting the Art in Artificial

Houseflies

housefly props for filming - Breaking Bad - season 3, episode 10, "Fly"

Flies for Orange Is The New Black

Honeybee props

Australian Paralysis Ticks

Cute and Creepy Spiders

Cockroach props - realistic life size - perfect for filming, up close....

cute baby cockroaches :)

Feeding the Pests - larger - life size realistic cockroach props

Cockroaches - Props

Firefly Props

Realistic LED illuminated fireflies - lightning bugs





life size detailed Camel Spider

another Camel Spider

realistic Camel Spider prop

thin stiff wires can be inserted into insect props for secure placement







Iridescent green butterflies - rare and beautiful Spotted Rihanna butterfly

Bumblebees made for the film "Snow White - Mirror Mirror"



Iridescent Blue Morpho Butterfly replicas

Swallowtail butterfly replicas - hand painted tear proof wings

Swarm of hungry dragonflies

Hungry Green Salamander and Dragonfly replicas - with bendable bodies

Box of Beetles

Beetles in flight

Beetle Props - closer view

Realistic Honeybees - tear proof wings are exceptionally durable

April 2009 - spring window displays - Mikimoto Pearls - 5th Ave New York and Rodeo Drive Beverly Hills





Stare Down - green beetle and housefly replicas

Brad Pitt was filmed holding realistic houseflies in a honey jar, in the movie "Benjamin Button"

One of the spiders made for the movie "Salt", with hollow fluid-filled abdomen,

to film Angelina Jolie extracting fluids with a needle and syringe

Spiders made for "The Amazing Spiderman" - Sony Pictures

Tiny Spiderman spider in vial

bendable Praying Mantis props





212 realistic moths created for Adam Sandler's movie "Grown Ups"

Realistic African Tsetse Fly replicas, created for the Cartoon Network - Bug Props

Realistic black Blow Fly - A number of them were featured in Law & Order SVU season 3





Realistic Asian Mosquitoes created for a Capital One TV commercial

Custom Hybrid Daddy Longlegs (Crane fly) & Mosquito, one of ten created for a Time Warner Cable TV commercial

Realistic Vinegaroon Beetle, one of five for the Cartoon Network

Scorpion Beetles, one with four 1mm hollow brass tubes inside, with wire extensions leading to the front claws and feeler legs, exiting the rear of the scorpion, allowing for puppeteering front end motion, filmed peeking out of a box

Realistic Slugs created for Universal Pictures "Little Fockers"

Realistic Orb Weaver spider - Columbia Pictures - Salt - Abdomen is hollow and watertight

Unfortunately this photo doesn't show the fully detailed spider, it was shipped before re-photographing

Realistic Caterpillars created for a Dr Pepper TV commercial

Glowing Yellow Butterfly Replica

Dancing in Air - Amazingly detailed butterflies

Realistic Butterflies in Inventory

Vibrant Orange and Pink Butterflies









Options include:

Internal magnet, pin or hook, for quick secure positioning, allowing for compressed-air wing-motion

Flexible and bendable wire core, allowing for posing and animating

1mm Hollow core, allowing for flight down a wire

Sponge filled body cavities, for filming fluid extraction with needle and syringe

Hollow bugs, that squirt fluid when stepped or stomped on

etc.....

Bugs Work for Advertising

Moosejaw Mountaineering catalog features Bugs from Film Flies

Moosejaw rented an assortment of 40 different insects for their fall 2009 advertising and catalog





Spider fly replicas

Sand Spider









Creepy and Colorful Camel Spider

Houseflies made for the movie Cirque du Freak







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Where realistic art comes to life



