In the abandoned mine, Lucas' father Frank is infected by the spirit of the Wendigo, which slowly grows inside him. Frank's journey from victim to the Wendigo's eventual emergence from his body would be done in three stages. For the first stage, actor Scott Haze was made scruffy with a set of vacuformed, nicotine-stained teeth. Miller says, "This was brilliant because it saved a lot of time and effort by not requiring tooth stains and trying to maintain that throughout the whole day." A second pair of teeth were made for the actor to take home ahead of the shoot so that he could practice speaking with them. For the second stage Frank makeup, Miller added a forehead appliance and wig. Miller says Haze was, "painted with a little bit of marbling and mottling and veining. Some redness around his eyes, just making him look a bit sicker." The forehead appliance covered Frank's brows. "We wanted the forehead appliance to start the transformation into the next stage, which was very extreme. If we hadn't used something to manipulate his skull structure, the jump from Frank's human look into that kind of mid-creature look, would have just been too jarring. So it was a subtle appliance, but it had some 3D veins sculpted into it. The brow was a bit more pronounced, temples were sunken in, and then his wig was pulled back so it looked like the hair was receded a little bit." Again, Frank would wear the gross, discolored teeth. The third stage transformation makeup included a full cowl appliance consisting of forehead, cheeks, neck, and lip. "The hair was punched into the cowl, so no wig was needed there. We wanted the hair to look really thin and wispy, like he was losing big chunks of hair." The third stage makeup also included, as Miller describes it, "big monster teeth, contact lenses, and all the rest was paint from the neck down; below was just all painted, integrated into these silicone appliances." Once on set, in a situation similar to the Principal Booth corpse, Miller would punch up the colors painted on the Frank appliances to register better in the attic lighting. No prosthetics were used for Frank's torso. Miller says, "Haze went through an intense weight loss program. "He lost as much weight as he could and then during his performance he would do his best to stick his chest out and suck in his stomach so we could see the ribs. We went in and exaggerated all that with highlight and shadow. So it was a marriage between his physical acting, his weight loss, and our makeup." The eerie glow inside of Frank's chest that represented the Wendigo's heart would be added later by VFX. Miller says LSFX only used silicone, not foam latex, for the Frank appliances. With silicone, "you can bang out more appliances daily than you can with foam because you're not waiting on the baking process. So it's quicker that way, too, for production."

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