Troma's "Class of Nuke 'Em High". My first feature film gig, with tons of FX, most of which I have no photos of. A note on the Monster : I didn't make the head ( that was Tom Lauten ), but I did do the body and spent a lot of time inside of the suit during the suit...with no ventilation. The melting head was the first feature film effect I shot, built from a donated plastic model skull, foam latex scraps, and gelatine, with some quick and dirty mechanics. Oh yeah, and the script supervisors hands. The "eye-popper" was a fiberglas shell (from a lifecast of a totally different actor than played the part) with a flexible urethane insert for the eye are so we could do it a few times. They were so terrified of the ratings board they wouldn't let me use any blood, so it looked a little wierd, but what the hell... It's Troma!
"Possesion". An NYU student film that got the director a job with Laurel entertainment, the people who did Tales Fromr the Darkside, Monsters, etc. Strangely enough, my budget was more than double that for Nuke 'Em high. Go figure. This was one of the main characters, Herbert the Walking Talking Killer Chair. More photos soon, there was some pretty cool stuff.
"Metamorphosis : The Alien Factor". Now this was a lot of fun. Piles of cool effects, a large and talented crew, something like a budget, a great designer (Ron Cole), and time to do good work. As FX coordinator, sculptor and builder of many of the pieces, and lead puppeteer, this was great fun.
The "Spawn" Sculpture . The film was supposed to be, in some odd way, a sequel to the low budget sci-fi cult flick "The Deadly Spawn", hence the big sucker's name. Something over a thousand pounds of clay over a plaster and wire lathe armature, almost every person who walked into the shop had their hands on this sculpt at some point - mostly during the roughing out phase. Winter in New York and the shop was mostly unheated, so just getting the clay on there was a struggle. But this was my baby.
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