Patrick Magee

Patrick grew up in Canada in the late 70s-early 80s, and always had a fascination with movies. At the age of 7, he saw An American Werewolf in London on HBO; this instilled his love of movie monsters. Specifically, movies where the monster felt real. Not long after he saw An American Werewolf in London, he saw The Making of Thriller. After watching Rick Baker make up Michael Jackson, he instantly knew what he was going to do with his life. Patrick moved to Los Angeles after playing college basketball and began his career in special makeup effects. He worked for a variety of special effects shops, including Screaming Mad George, Stan Winston Studio, and Amalgamated Dynamics (ADI), before starting his own business, Magee FX. He has worked on a variety of commercials, music videos, television shows, live events, and feature films. Patrick even had the opportunity to work for Rick Baker on his last big film, Men in Black 3, while still running Magee FX.

While Magee FX continues to acquire a variety of jobs and grow, Patrick enjoys orchestrating a team of artists specializing in: makeup, mechanics, hair, paint, sculpting, fabrication, mold making, and all of the elements that go into producing quality special effects and fine art pieces, for a variety of settings.

Aside from creating art for productions, collectors, and for his own creative outlet, Patrick Magee, with his carefully assembled crew of artists, completes masks, creature suits, executes makeups, makes animatronics and puppets, as well as static props for Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood, CA, along with sending specialty costumes, props, and masks to theme parks all over the world. He has also been the driving force behind the makeup for the annual holiday event, Grinchmas, in Hollywood, since 2010.

Wanting to showcase what he could do, Patrick decided he was ready to make a practical effects film, a creature feature. Knowing that he could execute great makeup effects and build the ultimate Bigfoot suit, with years of notes, Patrick collaborated with writer-director Jay Lee, and the two of them developed the story Primal Rage. Patrick is currently developing his second feature film and creating custom art in the form of masks, makeup, and oddities.