Tunnicliffe & Regan

GARY J. TUNNICLIFFE

Gary J. Tunnicliffe was born and raised in the small town of Burntwood in the rural county of Staffordshire, England.

Obsessed with film from an early age, his dreams of 'working in show-business' were quashed from an early age as 'folly' by his friends and family, but after discovering make up effects in the early eighties, and becoming fascinated by the practice, he quickly developed a portfolio of amateur pieces that got him noticed and got him a job working at the famed Pinewood Studios near London.

Several years later, aged 25, he made the move to Los Angeles and subsequently started his own makeup effects company, 'Two Hours in the Dark, Inc.' (The name was based on the average amount of time spent in a cinema.)

Since then, he has designed and created makeup effects, props, creatures, and prosthetics on over 100 feature films, as well as having written, directed, produced, and even acted in several others.

 

MIKE JAY REGAN

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Mike Jay Regan was part of a generation inspired by Star Wars and then propelled into a love of makeup effects by the video age of the early 80s and the work of Rob Bottin, Rick Baker, and Stan Winston.

At age 19, he got his first effects job working for Freddy Krueger designer David Miller on A Nightmare on Elm Street 5. He worked for Miller on several projects over the following years before meeting Gary J. Tunnicliffe in early 1994 and beginning a working relationship that would endure for 25 years and over 50 films (including 7 Hellraiser movies).

Mike has also worked for Rick Baker, Spectral Motion, ADI, and KNB Effects, amongst others.