John Vulich Biography (1960-)

Born October 10, 1960.

Gender

Male

Occupation

Makeup artist, makeup effects creator, actor, director, composer

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Work
• Special effects makeup, Day of the Dead, United Film DistributionCompany, 1985
• Special effects makeup and ghoulies, Ghoulies, 1985
• Construction crew fabricator/operator, Terrorvision, 1986
• Special makeup supervisor, Troll, 1986
• Special effects creatures and transformations (fabrication crew member),From Beyond, 1986
• Special effects crew (Greg Cannom), The Lost Boys, 1987
• Assistant special effects makeup, Dolls, Empire Pictures, 1987
• Makeup supervisor and special makeup effects artist, Dr. Alien (also known as I Was a Teenage Sex Maniac and I Was a Teenage Sex Mutant), Paramount Home Video, 1988
• Creature effects crew: Cannom, Cocoon: The Return, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1988
• Special makeup effects and makeup effects (location), The Phantom of the Opera (also known as Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera),21st Century Film Corp., 1989
• Special makeup effects artist assistant, Due occhi diabolici (alsoknown as Two Evil Eyes), Taurus Entertainment Company, 1990
• Special makeup effects supervisor, Night of the Living Dead, Columbia, 1990
• Special makeup effects supervisor and makeup effects creator, The DarkHalf, Orion, 1993
• Skateboard designer (Optic Nerve), The Skateboard Kid, 1993
• Additional makeup effects, Hot Shots! Part Deux, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1993
• MUFX ("The Mansion of the Drowned," "The Library"), H. P. Lovecraft'sNecronomicon, 1994
• Optic Nerve Studios, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, 1995
• Special makeup effects, Castle Freak, Full Moon Entertainment, 1995
• Supervisor (Optic Nerve Studios), Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Sony Pictures Releasing, 1995
• Special makeup effects, Susan's Plan (also known as Dying to Get Rich), 1998
• Special makeup effects artist (Optic Nerve Studios), Being John Malkovich, USA Films, 1999
• Special makeup effects artists, King of the Ants, The Asylum, 2003
• Film Appearances
• Featured zombie, Day of the Dead, 1985
• Himself, The Dead Walk: Remaking a Classic, Columbia TriStar HomeVideo, 1999
• Television Work
• Series
• Makeup effects, Babylon 5 (also known as B5), syndicated, 1992-1997, then TNT, 1998
• Special makeup effects supervisor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (alsoknown as Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Series and Buffy), The WB, 1996-2001, then UPN, 2001-2003
• Makeup effects supervisor, Hypernauts, ABC, 1996
• Makeup effects studio, The X-Files, Fox, c. 1999
• Special makeup effects artist, Angel (also known as Angel: TheSeries), The WB, 2000-
• Also worked as special effects makeup, Charmed, The WB; special makeup effects supervisor, Roswell, UPN; makeup effects creator, Crusade.
• Movies
• Special makeup effects, Ghost Writer, syndicated, 1990
• Makeup effects creator, Babylon 5: In the Beginning (also known asIn the Beginning), TNT and syndicated, 1998
• Makeup effects creator, Babylon 5: Thirdspace (also known as Thirdspace and Thirdspace: A Babylon 5 Adventure), TNT, 1998
• Makeup effects creator, Babylon 5: The River of Souls (also knownas The River of Souls), TNT, 1998
• Makeup effects creator, Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (also known as A Call to Arms), TNT, 1999
• Special makeup effects, Susan's Plan, Cinemax, 1999
• Specials
• Prosthetic effects, Steve.Oedekerk.com, NBC, 1997
• Creatures, Thumb Wars, UPN, 1999
• Episodic
• Directed the unaired "The Challenge: Part 2," Hypernauts, ABC; didspecial effects for The Drew Carey Show, ABC.
• WRITINGS
• Film Scores
• Linnea Quigley's Horror Workshop, 1990

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

• Cinefantastique, March, 1999, pp. 23-26