Gary J. Tunnicliffe has been working in the film industry since 1990, primarily designing and creating special make up effects, working on over 130 feature films including entries on many of the most beloved 'horror genre' franchises including Blade, Halloween, Candyman, Scream, Exorcist, Feast, Prophecy, Mimic, Scary Movie, Children of the Corn, The Collector, Piranha and (most notoriously) Hellraiser (8 films) He is especially known for designing elaborate and shocking death sequences which earned him the playful nickname 'The Hollywood Assassin' At the age of 27 he wrote and directed his first feature, the science fiction horror film "Within The Rock' for producer Robert Patrick (Terminator 2, Walk The Line) since then he has directed multiple feature films including the acclaimed Hellraiser Judgment and has directed actors including Christopher Lloyd, Chevy Chase, Dakota Fanning, Chloe Grace Moretz, Lynne Redgrave, Katy Segal, Howie Mandel, Wallace Shawn and James earl Jones He also written several produced screenplays, produced, directed 2nd unit, acted, performed stunts and puppeteered on a host of different projects. Based in Los Angeles he has a design studio in Northridge, just minutes away from Hollywood.

Filmography

• 2026Corporate Retreat — Special Effects Makeup Artist
• 2026Infestation — Special Effects
• 2023The Exorcist: Believer — Makeup Effects
• 2019Trick — Principal, Special Effects Makeup Artist, Stunt Double
• 2018Hellraiser: Judgment — The Auditor, Director, Writer, Associate Producer, Makeup Effects Designer, Prop Designer
• 2017The Hatred — Makeup Effects Designer
• 2016Miracles from Heaven — Special Effects Makeup Artist, Prosthetics
• 2016Pet — Homeless Guy, Makeup Effects Designer
• 2015Most Likely to Die — Special Effects Makeup Artist
• 2015The Chicken Run — Director, Writer, Producer, Production Design, Set Dresser
• 2015The Hive — Makeup Effects Designer
• 2015The Wedding Ringer — Makeup Effects Designer
• 2014Animal — Creature Design
• 2014Burying the Ex — Makeup Effects
• 2014Gone Girl — Makeup Effects
• 2013Beneath — Makeup Effects Designer
• 2013Killing Season — Makeup Designer
• 2012The Collection — Special Effects Makeup Artist
• 2011Children of the Corn: Genesis — Special Effects Makeup Artist
• 2011Hellraiser: Revelations — Screenplay
• 2011Scream 4 — Prosthetic Designer
• 2010Dinoshark — Jeremy Long
• 2010Shanghai — Prosthetics
• 2009Feast III: The Happy Finish — Special Effects Makeup Artist
• 2009Hellraiser: Deader – Winter's Lament — Characters
• 2009Jack and the Beanstalk — Nervous Lumberjack (voice), Director, Producer
• 2009My Bloody Valentine — Makeup Designer
• 2008Necromonger Dave — Director, Editor
• 2007Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud — Makeup Designer
• 2007The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising — Security Guard #2, Makeup Artist
• 2006Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes — Makeup Designer
• 2005Dracula III: Legacy — Makeup Designer
• 2005Feast — Mama Beast
• 2005Hellraiser: Deader — Makeup Effects Designer
• 2005Hellraiser: Hellworld — Second Unit Director, Makeup Effects Designer
• 2005Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis — Makeup Artist
• 2005The Prophecy: Uprising — Special Effects
• 2004Exorcist: The Beginning — Makeup Effects Designer
• 2004Megalodon — Grady Harper, Writer
• 2003Dracula II: Ascension — Makeup Designer, Second Unit Director
• 2003Mimic: Sentinel — Mimic Bug #2, Second Unit Director, Stunts
• 2002Halloween: Resurrection — Officer, Special Effects Makeup Artist
• 2002Hansel & Gretel — Director, Writer
• 2002Hellraiser: Hellseeker — Makeup Effects Designer
• 2001Guardian — Writer
• 2001To End All Wars — Makeup Effects
• 2000Dracula 2000 — Special Effects Makeup Artist
• 2000Ginger Snaps — Special Effects Makeup Artist
• 2000Hellraiser: Inferno — Makeup Effects Designer
• 1999Candyman: Day of the Dead — Prosthetic Makeup Artist
• 1999Sleepy Hollow — Visual Effects Supervisor, Makeup Effects
• 1999Twin Falls Idaho — Makeup Effects Designer
• 1998Amanda & the Alien — Creature Design
• 1997Menno's Mind — Special Effects Makeup Artist
• 1996Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering — Makeup Effects Designer
• 1996Hellraiser: Bloodline — Makeup Effects Designer
• 1996Within the Rock — Writer, Screenplay, Director
• 1995Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers — Special Effects
• 1995Last Gasp — Makeup Designer
• 1995Lord of Illusions — Special Effects Makeup Artist
• 1992Candyman — Makeup Supervisor

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2011Corman's World — Self - Makeup Designer