The Filmography
Every picture that carries his fingerprints — the paint jobs, the transformations, the melting socialites, the director’s chair. Dossiers open as research lands.
1986
Big Trouble in Little China
Creature sculptor — sewer monster & eye guardian (Boss Film Studios)
Sculpting the sewer monster and detailing the floating eye guardian at Boss Film Studios, under creature supervisor Steve Johnson.
1987
Predator
Creature effects crew — bio-mask paint & patina (Stan Winston Studio)
The weathered copper-bronze patina on the Predator's bio-mask is SMG's airbrush work.
1988
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Special effects — the cockroach nightmare
The cockroach nightmare — praised for dragging surreal, chaotic horror back into a franchise drifting toward slapstick.
1989
Society
Special makeup effects — designer of the shunting
The rich literally feed on the poor, and SMG's melting orgy of flesh made it a landmark of practical body horror.
1989
The Abyss
NTI sculptor (Steve Johnson's XFX, Inc.)
Sculpting the translucent, luminous NTIs at Steve Johnson's XFX — urethane skins lit from within by fiber optics.
1990
Bride of Re-Animator
Creature design — the Bride
The Bride herself — exposed musculature, tendons, and hand-sculpted anatomical horror.
1990
Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation
Creature effects — insect transformations
Slimy, insectoid creature transformations for Yuzna's cult holiday-horror entry.
1991
The Guyver
Co-director; Zoanoid creature design & transformations
SMG's directorial debut — co-directing the live-action manga adaptation with Steve Wang, and owning every grotesque Zoanoid transformation in it.
Dossiers Pending
- 1986 CM Collector unverified — research in progress
- 1987 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors unverified — research in progress
- 1987 Blood Diner unverified — research in progress
- 1987 Don't Panic unverified — research in progress
- 1987 Spaceballs unverified — research in progress
- 1988 Hide and Go Shriek unverified — research in progress
- 1988 Nissui "Umi no Pilaf" CM unverified — research in progress
- 1989 Arena unverified — research in progress
- 1989 Curse II: The Bite unverified — research in progress
- 1989 Peacock King 2 unverified — research in progress
- 1989 Tokyo: The Last War unverified — research in progress
- 1991 Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker unverified — research in progress
- 1993 Necronomicon unverified — research in progress
- 1993 Freaked unverified — research in progress
- 1995 Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest unverified — research in progress
- 1995 Tales from the Hood unverified — research in progress
- 1996 Space Truckers unverified — research in progress
- 1998 Biohazard 2 CM unverified — research in progress
- 1998 F-ZERO X CM unverified — research in progress
- 1998 Progeny unverified — research in progress
- 2000 Faust: Love of the Damned unverified — research in progress
- 2003 Beyond Re-Animator unverified — research in progress
- 2005 Boy in the BOX unverified — research in progress