The Shop Years · 1986

Big Trouble in Little China

Early shop work on Carpenter’s kitchen-sink adventure — at Richard Edlund’s Boss Film Studios, under creature effects supervisor Steve Johnson. George sculpted the bloated, anglerfish-mouthed sewer monster and worked on the floating eye guardian — an all-seeing ball of eyes and skin, an early appearance of the eye motif that follows his whole career.

(Correction, 2026-07-07: this page previously attributed the creatures to Stan Winston Studio. They were built at Boss Film Studios.)

btlc-eye-guardian-01The floating eye guardianawaiting image — assign this id in the triage tool