The Filmography
His film work includes paint jobs, transformations, melting socialites and one turn as co-director. Articles expand as research lands. Start with Society.
1986
Big Trouble in Little China
Creature effects — sewer monster work (provisional); floating eye design, paint and second-unit shots (Boss Film Studios)
Creature work at Boss Film Studios, including the floating eye's design and paint and direction of its second-unit puppet shots.
1986
Collector (1986)
Unknown
A 1986 credit that survives only as a title, コレクター, on two conflicting lists — one treating it as a commercial, Nintendo's own 1998 filmography treating it as a film. Neither reading is confirmed.
1987
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Makeup artist — gore effects on the marionette sequence, inferred, not directly documented (credited as Joji Tani)
One freelance makeup artist among many on a crowded, split-shop crew. His makeup credit may place him on the marionette gore, but no source assigns him to that sequence; the Freddy Snake is Kevin Yagher's design.
1987
Don't Panic
Special effects designer
A Mexican Ouija-board slasher shot in English for the international video market. George is credited as effects designer; its big gag is a demon face stretching out of a television screen.
1987
Predator
Creature effects crew — bio-mask paint contribution reported (Stan Winston Studio)
George was on Stan Winston Studio's redesign crew. Secondhand write-ups assign the bio-mask's surface paint to him, but the timing and palette are unverified.
1987
Spaceballs
Special makeup effects
George joined the film's makeup-effects crew. Pizza the Hutt is its largest makeup build, but no source assigns that character specifically to George.
1988
Hide and Go Shriek
Special effects creator
A late-80s slasher from the same stretch as the Dream Master roach sequence, remembered almost entirely for one elevator decapitation.
1988
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Special makeup effects — the cockroach transformation (S.M.G. Inc.)
Debbie Stevens's death — arms snapped on a weight bench, skin peeled down to a cockroach, crushed inside a giant Roach Motel. George's shop, start to finish.
1988
Nissui "Umi no Pilaf" CM
Merman design and suit
A reported 1988 Nissui commercial credit. Japanese listings describe a full-body merman, but no viewable copy or production credit has surfaced.
1989
Arena
Creature design and fabrication — the Sloth
George designed the Sloth, the multi-legged, slime-coated gladiator performed by Steve Wang. It was the first time Wang worked inside a suit George designed.
1989
Curse II: The Bite
Special effects and makeup designer (S.M.G. Inc.)
An Italian-American B-picture built around Clark's snake-hand transformation, staged step by step by George's shop.
1989
Peacock King 2
Monster designer — the Cherubim
Not the live-action Saga of the Phoenix — George's credit is on the anime Peacock King 2: Castle of Illusion, where he designed the monster Cherubim.
1989
Society
Special makeup effects — designer of the shunting
The rich literally consume the poor. George designed and built the shunting, the film's flesh-merging climax.
1989
The Abyss
NTI sculptor (Steve Johnson's XFX, Inc.)
George's credited role was sculptor on the NTI crew at Steve Johnson's XFX, Inc.; the credit does not belong to Stan Winston Studio.
1989
Tokyo: The Last War
Surreal Visual Effects (超現実視覚効果)
Toho brought George back to Japan for Teito Taisen (帝都大戦), credited for 'Surreal Visual Effects.' The human-faced larvae are associated with his unit, but the division of work remains undocumented.
1990
Bride of Re-Animator
Creature effects — finger-eyeball creature, crypt mutants (not the Bride)
KNB built the Bride. George's shop built the lab's failed experiments and the crypt monsters, including the finger-eyeball creature.
1990
Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation
Lead effects creator — insectoid transformations and creature gags
Yuzna drops the killer Santa entirely for coven witchcraft and insect body horror, with George's shop building the larva, the bugs under the skin, and the mutation makeups.
1991
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker
Special makeup and mechanical effects (with Tom Rainone)
Pinocchio rebuilt as a horror film — killer toys and a robot-boy reveal, a direct-to-video follow-up to Initiation under producer Brian Yuzna.
1991
The Guyver
Co-director; Zoanoid creature design & transformations
Co-directing debut with Steve Wang — Bandai's live-action Guyver manga adaptation, split clean down the middle between George's Zoanoid grotesqueries and Wang's armor and action.
1993
Freaked
Special makeup effects designer — Ricky Coogan's mutation
George designed Ricky Coogan's bulging-eyed, pustuled mutation. His was one of three shops building the creatures for the 20th Century Fox comedy.
1993
Necronomicon
Creature technical director — 'The Library' and 'Whispers' segments
An anthology split among several FX shops. George took Brian Yuzna's two segments, a tentacled vault guardian and a family of belly-mouthed bat aliens, and left the rest of the picture to other studios.
1995
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
Creature designer and special makeup effects artist
George gave He Who Walks Behind the Rows a full root-and-tentacle creature body on screen, and supervised a young Hiroshi Katagiri on the film's Scarecrow.
1995
Tales from the Hood
Special effects — 'Boys Do Get Bruised' and the Mr. Simms reveal
The Chiodo Brothers built the KKK dolls. George's shop handled a man crumpled like paper and a funeral director revealed as the Devil.
1996
Space Truckers
Special effects — cyborg and creature fabrication
Stuart Gordon hired George's shop to turn Hajime Sorayama's chrome cyborg illustrations into physical suits.
1998
Biohazard 2 CM
Special effects and makeup designer
A Capcom-commissioned Japanese TV spot for Biohazard 2, directed by George A. Romero, with George designing the zombie makeup and the Licker creature work.
1998
F-ZERO X CM
Special makeup and costume
Nintendo hired him to put live-action F-Zero racers in an airport terminal, then published a profile of him that remains one of the best sources on his early life.
1998
Progeny
Alien creature design and special makeup effects
A late-period Yuzna collaboration, co-written by Stuart Gordon — George reworked the abduction-movie Grey into something insectoid, and built the film's cesarean effect.
2000
Faust: Love of the Damned
Special makeup effects designer
A demonic muscle suit and a transformation that turns a woman into a mass of overlapping breasts and buttocks, for Yuzna's new Barcelona label.
2003
Beyond Re-Animator
Special makeup effects designer (directing credit unconfirmed)
The last Yuzna collaboration: a re-animated rat fighting a severed penis, and a warden mutating into something rat-shaped.
2004
Boy in the BOX
Writer, director, animation, editing and music
George's self-made short, which he called 'Psycho-Fiction.'
Unverified Credits
- 1987 Blood Diner unverified — research in progress
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