Vada is geobsedeerd door de dood. Haar moeder is jaren geleden overleden en haar vader is begrafenisondernemer. Vada is bevriend met Thomas, die allergisch is voor zowat alles. Hij is de enige die haar vreemde kuren begrijpt. Als haar vader de vlotte Shelly in dienst neemt en verliefd op haar wordt, doet Vada er alles aan om de relatie te verbreken.
Een special-effects expert wordt door een overheidsdienst ingehuurd om te helpen de moord van een bekende gangster in scene te zetten. Wanneer de agenten hem blijken te bedriegen gebruikt hij zijn special effects om de gangster en de corrupte agenten te vangen.
The story of how one Pittsburgh boy’s fascination with monsters drove him to the very top of the Hollywood food chain. In 1989, Greg Nicotero, much to his parents’ chagrin, quit medical school and headed for Hollywood to pursue a dream of making monsters. Together with gore masters Howard Berger and Robert Kurtzman, Nicotero went on to create KNB EFX Group, one of the most prolific makeup effects studios in the world. After twenty years as the “go to guy” for the world’s most successful horror/sci-fi films, Greg Nicotero is the first one directors like Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez call.
A deformed hunchback kidnaps a bride on the day of her marriage and holds her hostage while his connection to her and his targets is revealed in a series of flashbacks that unfold as he starts seeking revenge.
Tom Savini is one of the greatest special effects legends in the history of cinema, but little is known about his personal life until now. For the first time ever a feature length film has covered not only Tom's amazing career spanning over four decades, but his personal life as well.
The evolution of the zombie from its roots in Haitian voodoo to its coveted role as the world's most popular monster: from being a clumsy corpse to becoming a cannibal killer and the main agent of every infectious pandemic, the zombie has come a long way in seventy years. A look at the rising tide of zombie culture examining why something so dead has so much life in viewers' nightmares and at the box office.
At fading indie horror studio, its owner Jefferson, and his nephew Caleb, a young horror movie obsessive and aspiring makeup artist, finally gets his “little break” when Jefferson assigns him to work on a B-list movie about a vampire. There, he encounters another makeup artist, Ginni, with whom he feels he can share his vulnerabilities, as well as an unsupportive rival, Todd.
A photographer and a makeup artist document their burgeoning relationship and their partnership on a fine art project through the lenses of their own cameras.
Meeting after many years, a makeup artist and her grandmother revisit tensions from an old family feud that still hangs heavy between them.
The 6 minutes film unfurls the story of self discovery in the strangest time through a MakeUp Artist. His only guest happens to be economic crisis. With the moist eyes and the time he is left alone with, his sight is beclouded. So, he turns to himself to see a face he has never seen beneath his brushes, a face he has never bothered to acknowledge.
A housewife, suspecting her husband of having an affair with a younger woman, enlists the help of a make-up artist to become more attractive to him.
A peculiar, meticulous, vocationally archeological account of the professional life of the actor, Spanish by birth, Argentinean by adoption, Narciso Ibañez Menta (1912-2004), spiritual disciple of Lon Chaney, the new man of a thousand faces, master of horror, star of Argentinean theater, cinema and television for decades.
This MGM short film highlights the work of master make-up artist William Tuttle. As the head of MGM's make-up department, Bill Tuttle has been involved in many of MGM's best known productions. He shows how they make masks of actors' faces that allows them to work on make-up, particularly prostheses or appliances, without the actor having to spend hours in the make-up room.