The fan-made encyclopedia of
Screaming Mad George
MUSICIAN. ARTIST. CREATOR.
Screaming Mad George. You probably remember the first time you saw that name in the credits. It stands out, and it is not something you forget.
Mine may have been Paranoiascape, a Japanese PlayStation import I wore out in the nineties and passed around to friends. His name was right there on the box. Once I started paying attention, I realized how often he appeared in things I already loved.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 was the first movie where I actually clocked what he’d built, Debbie Stevens peeling her own face off to reveal the roach underneath. And he’s in Big Trouble in Little China too, working on the sewer monster and designing and painting the floating eye at Boss Film Studios, which is the kind of credit nobody brings up when they talk about that movie.
The Guyver and Society blew my tiny teen mind on premium cable, and Bride of Re-Animator and Freaked were big discoveries in my friend group, VHS rentals passed around the way that kind of tape always was.
That’s the whole reason this site exists, honestly. I went looking for everything he touched, one credit at a time, and there wasn’t anywhere that already had it collected.
He died in February 2026. This is still that collection, and it keeps going.
The Column
Films, records, commercials and one pinball fever dream, earliest first and running down the spine to now.
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The Mad — The Mad
Songwriting, vocals, and stage gore
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Big Trouble in Little China
Creature effects — sewer monster work; floating eye design, paint and second-unit shots (Boss Film Studios)
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Collector (1986)
Unknown
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Makeup artist — gore effects on the marionette sequence, inferred, not directly documented (credited as Joji Tani)
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Blood Diner
Special effects — credit unconfirmed
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Don't Panic
Special effects designer
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Predator
Creature effects crew — bio-mask paint contribution reported (Stan Winston Studio)
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Spaceballs
Special make-up effects
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Special makeup effects — the cockroach transformation (S.M.G. Inc.)
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Hide and Go Shriek
Special effects creator
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Nissui "Umi no Pilaf" CM
Merman design and suit
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Arena
Creature design and fabrication — the Sloth
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Curse II: The Bite
Special effects and makeup designer (S.M.G. Inc.)
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Peacock King 2
Monster designer — the Cherubim
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Society
Special makeup effects — designer of the shunting
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The Abyss
NTI sculptor (Steve Johnson's XFX, Inc.)
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Tokyo: The Last War
Surreal Visual Effects director (超現実視覚効果)
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Bride of Re-Animator
Creature effects — finger-eyeball creature, crypt mutants (not the Bride)
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Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation
Lead effects creator — insectoid transformations and creature gags
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Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker
Special makeup and mechanical effects (with Tom Rainone)
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The Guyver
Co-director; Zoanoid creature design & transformations
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X Japan — Jealousy
Album cover concept & Tokyo Dome stage design
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Freaked
Special makeup effects designer — Ricky Coogan's mutation
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Necronomicon
Creature Technical Director — 'The Library' and 'Whispers' segments
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Screaming Mad George & Psychosis — Transmutation
Songwriting, vocals, and performance
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hide — Hide Your Face
The third-eye alien mask
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Nine Inch Nails — Closer
The mechanical beating heart
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Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
Creature designer and special makeup effects artist
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Tales from the Hood
Special effects — 'Boys Do Get Bruised' and the Mr. Simms reveal
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Space Truckers
Special effects — cyborg and creature fabrication
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Biohazard 2 CM
Special effects and makeup designer
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F-ZERO X CM
Special makeup and costume
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Marilyn Manson — Mechanical Animals / The Dope Show
The androgynous silicone body suit
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Paranoiascape
Creator — first-person pinball fever dream (PS1)
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Progeny
Alien Creature Design & Special Makeup Effects
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Faust: Love of the Damned
Special Makeup Effects Designer
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NSYNC — It's Gonna Be Me
Marionette-doll prosthetics
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Slipknot — Iowa & Vol. 3 Masks
Mask design & fabrication
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Beyond Re-Animator
Special makeup effects designer (directing credit unconfirmed)
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Boy in the BOX
Director, writer, animation, editing, CG, and music
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Screaming Mad George with THE GEROS — One Night at Namba Bears
Vocals — The Mad, played again
“Doing something unreal — but doing it so realistically that everyone gets nauseated.”
— Screaming Mad George