Stan WinstonFilmography

Iron Man

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb

Synopsis: From Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures comes Iron Man, an action-packed take on the tale of wealthy philanthropist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), who develops an invulnerable robotic suit to fight the throes of evil. In addition to being filthy rich, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark is Read More

The Deaths of Ian Stone

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mike Vogel, Jaime Murray, Christina Cole, Michael Feast, Mamix Van Den Broeke

Synopsis: Propelled into the path of an oncoming train by a nightmarish creature that stalks the darkness, an ordinary American finds himself forced to die a new death every day until he can solve the mystery of his own life in this installment of the 2007 After Dark Horrorfest. As the speeding lights Read More

Skinwalkers

Crew: Creature Effects

Actors: Jason Behr, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, Kim Coates, Natassia Malthe

Synopsis: His 13th birthday fast drawing near, an unsuspecting young boy on the verge of a remarkable transformation remains completely unaware that an ancient prophecy is set to be fulfilled with the rising of the red moon. To most folks, 12-year-old Timmy (Matthew Knight) would seem an average adolescent Read More

Bloodsucking Cinema

Actors: John Carpenter, Len Wiseman, Joel Schumacher, Kristanna Loken, Stuart Townsend

Synopsis: Everyone loves a good, two-fanged fright flick, and from the silent screen to the 21st Century, vampire films have drawn moviegoers to theaters in droves. Much like the immortal monsters that stalk the night in search of precious blood, it seems that our fascination with these strange and Read More

The Shaggy Dog

Crew: Animatronic Effects

Actors: Tim Allen, Robert Downey, Jr., Kristin Davis, Danny Glover, Spencer Breslin

Synopsis: An unexpected transformation helps a workaholic attorney learn that there's more to life than the courtroom in this remake of the 1959 Disney canine classic of the same name. Deputy District Attorney Dave Douglas (Tim Allen) takes his job in the halls of justice very seriously -- so seriously in Read More

Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film

Synopsis: For decades fright fans have cowered in horror as vicious killers stalked their helpless prey in the cold flicker of the projector bulb and in darkened living rooms with the curtains firmly drawn. Now, for anyone who has ever wondered just what motivated the filmmakers behind these brutal Read More

Smile

Crew: Makeup Special Effects

Actors: Mika Boorem, Luoyong Wang, Beau Bridges, Cheri Oteri, Linda Hamilton

Synopsis: Two girls born at the same time on different sides of the world are brought together by an act of mercy in this drama. Katie (Mika Boorem) is a high-school student who has grown up in a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles. While Katie has never had to want for material things, she feels a certain Read More

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Crew: Animation Effects, Makeup Special Effects

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken

Synopsis: The second sequel to the 1984 sci-fi action classic, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is the first film without the involvement of director James Cameron. Instead, Jonathan Mostow, the man behind Breakdown and U-571, has stepped in to fill the shoes left vacant by Cameron. In addition, the role Read More

Wrong Turn

Crew: Co-producer, Makeup Special Effects

Actors: Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Kevin Zegers

Synopsis: A turn down an uncharted dirt road leads six young people into a night of pure terror in this horror story. Chris (Desmond Harrington) is driving through West Virginia on his way to a job interview when an auto accident slows highway traffic to a near standstill. Afraid he'll be late, Chris takes Read More

Jurassic Park III

Crew: Animatronic Effects, Creature Effects

Actors: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan

Synopsis: Director Joe Johnston takes over the creative reins from Steven Spielberg for this third installment in the thriller franchise. Sam Neill returns as Dr. Alan Grant, a scientist who's tricked by wealthy couple Paul and Amanda Kirby (William H. Macy and Tea Leoni) into a fly-over of Isla Sorna. The Read More

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

Crew: Animatronic Effects

Actors: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt

Synopsis: Based on the 1969 short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, by Brian Aldiss, this science fiction fantasy bears similarities to Pinocchio (1940) and originated as a long-gestating project of director Stanley Kubrick that passed to his friend Steven Spielberg after Kubrick's death. Haley Joel Osment Read More

She Creature

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rufus Sewell, Carla Gugino, Rya Kihlstedt, Jim Piddock, Gil Bellows, Reno Wilson

Synopsis: A couple running a rideshow discover the find of a lifetime, only to realize it could well be the death of them in this horror story. Angus Shaw (Rufus Sewell) and his wife, Lillian (Carla Gugino), run a travelling carnival which barnstorms the countryside in the early 1900s. The Shaws' circus Read More

Earth vs. the Spider

Crew: Producer

Actors: Theresa Russell, Dan Aykroyd, Amelia Heinle, Devon Gummersall

Synopsis: This film was part of Cinemax's Creature Feature films, which remade classic American-International monster films from the '50s. Quentin Kimmer (Devon Gummersall) believes he will turn himself into his idol, the Arachnid Avenger, when he injects himself with spider serum. As with Jeff Goldblum's Read More

The Day the World Ended

Crew: Producer

Actors: Randy Quaid, Bobby Edner, Nastassja Kinski

Synopsis: A woman trying to help a disturbed child discovers his nightmarish fears are all too real in this sci-fi horror opus. Dr. Jennifer Stillman (Nastassja Kinski) is a child psychologist from New York City who takes a job working at an elementary school in a small Nevada community. Jennifer is seen as Read More

Teenage Caveman

Crew: Producer

Actors: Paul Hipp, Robert Hill, Tiffany Limos, Andrew Keegan, Tara Subkoff

Synopsis: Part of the "Creature Features" retro horror movie series on Cinemax, Teenage Caveman is an exploitative remake of Roger Corman's 1958 sci-fi B-movie, re-imagined by director Larry Clark (Kids, Bully). In a post-apocalyptic Neanderthal-style future world, teenage tribal leader David (Andrew Read More

How to Make a Monster

Crew: Producer

Actors: Julie Strain, Clea Duvall, Steven Culp, Tyler Mane

Synopsis: Another made-for-cable horror story from the "Creature Features" series of in-name-only remakes of classic American International Pictures scare flicks, How to Make a Monster concerns a new video game, "Evil-ution," which is being designed by a top virtual reality firm headed by Faye Clayton (Colleen Camp Read More

Galaxy Quest

Crew: Creature Effects, Makeup Special Effects, Special Effects

Actors: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Enrico Colantoni

Synopsis: A team of intrepid adventurers travels through the outer reaches of the galaxy, each week finding excitement and adventure on Galaxy Quest! Or at least that's the way it was in the mid-1970s, when brave if reckless Captain Peter Quincy Taggart, lovely Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Read More

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Rob Schneider, William Forsythe, Eddie Griffin, Arija Bareikis, Oded Fehr

Synopsis: Yet another Saturday Night Live alumnus makes his bid for big-screen success as Rob Schneider, best remembered as the "Making copies!" guy, tackles his first leading role in this broad comedy. Deuce (Rob Schneider) earns a meager living as a professional fish tank cleaner until he's asked to Read More

End of Days

Crew: Special Effects, Visual Effects Supervisor

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, Kevin Pollak, CCH Pounder, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: 1999 proved a banner year for screen portrayals of Satan's love life: first his relationship with Saddam Hussein went under the microscope in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, and a few months later his search for a girl to settle down with became the basis of this thriller. With the Read More

The Sixth Sense

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Donnie Wahlberg

Synopsis: In this tense tale of psychological terror, Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is a child psychologist whose new patient has a problem far outside his usual area of expertise. Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) is six-years-old and claims to see the spirits of dead people all around him. It seems that Read More

Inspector Gadget

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Michelle Trachtenberg, Andy Dick

Synopsis: Matthew Broderick stars in this live-action adaptation of the popular animated series. When a well-meaning but overly trusting security guard is wounded in an explosion created by the evil Dr. Claw, a beautiful scientist named Brenda (Joely Fisher) takes him under her wing and turns him into a Read More

Lake Placid

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Platt, Betty White

Synopsis: So what's under the water in that lake deep in the Maine woods? No one is sure what it could be, but a dead and severely mutilated body was found near the shore, and the only clue is a large tooth which appears to be from a prehistoric animal resembling a huge crocodile. Jack Wells (Bill Pullman) Read More

Instinct

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney, George Dzundza

Synopsis: A man who leaves humanity behind to live with animals returns to society under unpleasant circumstances, but with valuable lessons about human and animal relationships. Anthony Hopkins stars as Ethan Powell, a noted anthropologist studying the behavior of mountain gorillas in Rwanda. The longer Read More

Creature

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Craig T. Nelson, Kim Cattrall, Colm Feore, Cress Williams, Michael Reilly Burke

Synopsis: Rockne S. O'Bannon scripted this two-part TV miniseries adaptation of Peter Benchley's novel, found floating in the wake of his Jaws and The Beast. The origins of the tale's hybrid horror begin in 1972 at a secret Navy base off St. Lucia, where researchers cross a dolphin with a great white shark Read More

Ghosts

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Jackson

Synopsis: This short film is actually a long-form music video, produced to promote Michael Jackson's 1997 album {^Blood on the Dance Floor}, and it features two songs from that release. The obese and overbearing mayor of a small town, like most of his constituents, lives in fear of the "ghosts" that inhabit Read More

The Relic

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore, Clayton Rohner

Synopsis: A mythological creature stalks the halls of a museum during a society fundraiser in this cheap sci-fi horror genre knock-off of Alien (1979). Penelope Ann Miller stars as Dr. Margo Green, an evolutionary biologist at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History who receives a shipment of artifacts Read More

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Vince Vaughn, Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: Just when you'd think that scientists would realize dinosaurs and humans don't mix, along comes The Lost World: Jurassic Park to prove you wrong. In this sequel, John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) summons chaos theorist and onetime colleague Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) to his home with some Read More

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Crew: Special Effects Supervisor

Actors: Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, Fairuza Balk, Ron Perlman

Synopsis: On a remote tropical island, Dr. Moreau has appointed himself ruler over a menagerie of genetic mutants fashioned in his gene-splicing chamber of horrors. The products of his misguided attempt to create a more "pure" human species, the man-beasts worship Moreau as their god and "father" and live Read More

Terminator 2: 3-D

Crew: Director

Actors: Edward Furlong, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Synopsis: This 12-minute short featuring much of the cast and crew of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) cost $60 million to produce, making it the most expensive venture per minute in movie history. The film was the centerpiece of a multimedia attraction at the Universal Studios Florida theme park in Read More

Interview With the Vampire

Crew: Makeup Special Effects

Actors: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea, Christian Slater

Synopsis: Anne Rice's best-selling romantic horror tale about the origins of a centuries-old vampire inspired this popular, atmospheric chiller. One of director Neil Jordan's major Hollywood productions, the film stays close to its source material, retaining the frame of a young reporter (Christian Slater) Read More

Jurassic Park

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg's phenomenally successful sci-fi adventure thriller is graced by state-of-the-art special effects from the team of Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri from George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic. The film follows two dinosaur experts -- Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Read More

Batman Returns

Crew: Makeup

Actors: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough

Synopsis: In this first sequel to 1989's Batman, the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the hideously deformed scion of a wealthy Gotham City family. The Penguin plots with evil businessman Max Schreck (Christopher Walken) to become mayor and then turn Gotham into a Read More

A Gnome Named Gnorm

Crew: Director

Actors: Anthony Michael Hall, Jerry Orbach, Claudia Christian, Eli Danker, Mark Harelik

Synopsis: In this action-comedy, an eccentric detective ends up working with a lost gnome who has accidentally burrowed up from his subterranean world. He is searching for something valuable he lost so he can win the heart of a winsome gnomette. Wacky mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Crew: Makeup Special Effects

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen

Synopsis: A sequel to the sci-fi action thriller that made him and star Arnold Schwarzenegger A-list Hollywood names, writer/director James Cameron upped the ante with this follow-up by employing a more sweeping storyline and cutting-edge special effects. Linda Hamilton returns as Sarah Connor, now a single Read More

Edward Scissorhands

Crew: Makeup Special Effects

Actors: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price, Kathy Baker

Synopsis: Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands opens as an eccentric inventor (Vincent Price) lovingly assembles a synthetic youth named Edward (Johnny Depp). Edward has all the essential ingredients for today's standard body, with the exception of a pair of hands. For what is initially thought to be a Read More

Predator 2

Crew: Creature Design, Special Effects

Actors: Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Rubén Blades, Maria Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton

Synopsis: This special effects-heavy science fiction sequel moves the action from the first film's Amazon forest to the urban jungle of L.A. Danny Glover stars as Lt. Mike Harrigan, an LAPD detective baffled by his latest case, the ritualistic slaughter of several drug dealers by a devastating killer who Read More

Leviathan

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern, Ernie Hudson

Synopsis: Leviathan, a sci-fi thriller directed by George Pan Cosmatos, is the story of a group of scientists who discover a sunken Russian submarine which contains a monster that is the product of a genetic experiment. This film, a hybrid of both The Abyss and Alien, has a decent cast, including Peter Weller Read More

Pumpkinhead

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Jeff East, Kerry Remsen, Joel Hoffman, Matthew Hurley

Synopsis: A bereaved farmer enlists the aid of a terrifying demon to help avenge his son's death in this stylish horror movie that contains a strong moral. It all begins as gentle widowed farmer/general store owner Ed's beloved 10-year-old son is involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident with an careless Read More

The Monster Squad

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Stephen Macht, Duncan Regehr, Tom Noonan

Synopsis: A group of adolescent monster movie enthusiasts form a club that meets in a treehouse in this pre-teen horror feature. When Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein, and The Wolfman are joined by Gill-Man in the search for a magic amulet, the boys form the Monster Squad to battle the forces of evil. The Read More

Predator

Crew: Creature Design

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura

Synopsis: Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has a code of honor which he will not violate, even when his life depends on it. Paradoxically, his code of honor gives him the backbone to survive as a military special forces operative when he is sent on a covert mission to rescue another group which was sent in to Read More

Aliens

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser

Synopsis: Big-budget special effects, swiftly paced action, and a distinct feminist subtext from writer/director James Cameron turned what should have been a by-the-numbers sci-fi sequel into both a blockbuster and a seven-time Oscar nominee. Sigourney Weaver returns as Ellen Ripley, the last surviving crew Read More

The Terminator

Crew: Makeup Special Effects

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen

Synopsis: Endlessly imitated, The Terminator made the reputation of cowriter/director James Cameron -- who would go on to make 1997's titanic Titanic -- and solidified the stardom of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The movie begins in a post-apocalyptic 2029, when Los Angeles has been largely reduced to rubble and Read More

Starman

Crew: Makeup, Set Designer

Actors: Ted White, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Phalen

Synopsis: Having crashed to Earth, an extraterrestrial space traveller must assume a human identity lest he be captured by the authorities. The alien (Jeff Bridges) chooses the likeness of the recently deceased husband of Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen). At first dumbstruck, Jenny becomes both hostile toward Read More

Heartbeeps

Crew: Makeup Special Effects

Actors: Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, Randy Quaid, Kenneth McMillan, Melanie Mayron

Synopsis: Heartbeeps stars Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as domestic robots who fall in love and run off together. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Dead and Buried

Crew: Makeup Special Effects

Actors: James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, Dennis Redfield, Nancy Locke

Synopsis: Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, the screenwriters behind the highly successful Alien, turned their attention to earthbound terrors with this creepy horror tale. Dead and Buried focuses on Dan Gillis (James Farentino), a man who has recently returned to his hometown of Potter's Bluff to be its Read More

Parasite

Crew: Makeup Special Effects

Actors: Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici, James Davidson, Al Fann

Synopsis: In this gory sci-fi outing, shot and originally released in 3-D, Dr. Paul Dean (Robert Glaudini) is a scientist living in the near future, after America has fallen under the control of a repressive paramilitary regime. Dean's research causes him to absorb an especially voracious parasitic worm Read More

The Wiz

Crew: Makeup Special Effects

Actors: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Lena Horne, Richard Pryor

Synopsis: Sidney Lumet's The Wiz is the film version of the popular Broadway musical that retells the events of L. Frank Baum's classic novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz through the eyes of a young African-American kindergarten teacher who's "never been below 125th Street." Leaving a large family dinner to Read More

Roots

Crew: Makeup

Actors: LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Amos, Ben Vereen

Synopsis: This award-winning six-part historical epic was one of the first examples of the miniseries format and one of the highest-rated television programs in broadcasting history. Based on the best-selling novel by author Alex Haley, Roots chronicles the progress of Haley's own family across many Read More

W.C. Fields and Me

Crew: Makeup Special Effects

Actors: Rod Steiger, Valerie Perrine, John Marley, Jack Cassidy, Bernadette Peters

Synopsis: W.C. Fields and Me is the film version of the Fields biography written by the comedian's former mistress Carlotta Monti. W. C. Fields was a great comedian in vaudeville and early talking films, who was noted for his ability to say the most hilariously cutting and mean things in a cheery, bright Read More

The Man in the Glass Booth

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Luther Adler, Lawrence Pressman, Henry Brown

Synopsis: Actor/writer Robert Shaw's powerhouse stage play The Man in the Glass Booth was transferred to the screen as part of the American Film Theatre series. Maximilian Schell plays Arthur Goldman, a Jewish businessmen living in Manhattan in 1965. A group of Israeli underground agents barge into Read More

Gargoyles

Crew: Makeup

Actors: Scott Glenn, Jennifer Salt

Synopsis: Incorporating themes from horror films of both the '50s and the '70s, this suspenseful TV movie stars Cornel Wilde and Jennifer Salt as an archaeologist and his daughter, who discover a strange skull on display at a roadside tourist trap. After the museum owner is killed during an attack from an Read More