Vincent J. Guastini

Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Vincent James Guastini started his own Special Make-up effects company at the age of 22, in New Jersey and New York for 15 years, and then later in Hollywood for 19 years. Specializing in prosthetics, creature effects, design, and animatronics.Vincent is mostly known for in his 30 plus years in the business in creating the ground breaking animatronic wings and creature effects in Kevin Smith's film "Dogma" and for Darren Aronofsky's film, "Requiem for a Dream", he designed sculpted and applied prosthetics changing Oscar nominated actress Ellen Burstyn into a thinning decaying women. The prosthetic transformation made Vincent an Oscar hopeful that year and is looked at as one of the most convincing transformations in prosthetic makeup history for subtlety and realism. He later worked with Aronofsky again on the film "Aftermath" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger where Vincent's team created silicone bodies for a graphic plane crash.The films that were a big influence on his life were Ray Harryhausen effects epics like, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts, and horror films including "The Exorcist", and space epics like "Star Wars". One movie that changed his life forever was John Carpenter's remake of "The Thing"; Rob Bottin's work on that film had an effect on Vincent that would forever change what he would do with the rest of his life. He decided he must do creature effects for a living.Vincent contacted in his teens Oscar winning makeup artist Dick Smith who also affected Vincent's young years with his work on The Exorcist. After showing Mr. Smith his work and getting Mr. Smith's advice and his friendship, Vincent decided to open up his own studio. Soon after he started working with Mr. Smith under his supervision, doing creatures and special makeup effects for the creature of the week TV series called "Monsters" Thanks to Mr. Smith's help and recommendations his company soon grew to become one of the top special makeup effects houses on the East Coast.Vincent's big breakthrough film came in 1991 when asked to take over the prosthetic effects for Michael Mann's 60 million dollar film "The Last of the Mohicans" for 20th Century Fox. After this film Vincent went on to supervise and design creature effects for various studio and independent films. In 2001 Vincent moved his company to the West Coast and is now one of the top effects & design studios in Hollywood where Vincent lives and is based out of for the past 19 years.Vincent's other groundbreaking effects include the first use of silicone technology with fire victim effects for Clint Eastwood's "Letters of Iwo Jima" and "Flags of Our Father". Other films include the Bryan Singer produced horror film hit "The Taking of Deborah Logan". With the help of prosthetic silicone appliances and puppets Vincent and his team transformed actress Jill Larson into a crazed demonic possessed creature.Vincent's work was also nominated for his prosthetic work for TV's "Saturday Night Live" Vincent's other film and T.V. credits include either as an effects technician, or supervisor and designer are, Dogma, Requiem for a Dream, The Last Of The Mohicans, Letters Of Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Father, Stephen King's Langoliers, Stephen Kings Thinner, Stephen Kings Mr. Mercedes, World War Z, Scary Movie 4, Super Mario Bros The Movie, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Child's Play 3, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Virus, Man On The Moon, The Taking of Deborah Logan, V/H/S/ Viral, Cabin Fever Patient Zero, Sushi Girl, The Devil's Carnival 1& 2, Saturday Night Live, Third Watch, Dr. Phil Show, The Howard Stern Show, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Law and Order, Conan O'Brien, Animal Planet's Lost Tapes, Comedy Central's This is Not Happening, and the Get Shorty T.V. Series.Development & Design work for: I Frankenstein, Watchmen, Hannibal, Battlestar Galactica, (Bryan Singer Version) Creature of the Black Lagoon, Preacher, Green Hornet, Doom the Movie, Green Hornet, I Am Legend, The Thing prequel.Vincent's many clients & companies include: Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, Darren Aronofsky, Kevin Smith, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Milos Forman, James Gunn, David Zucker, Bryan Singer, Joe Dante, Tom Holland, Mary Lambert, Fred Caruso, Christopher Walken, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Shwazzenegger, Mark Hamill, Bob Hoskins, Daniel Day Lewis, Crispin Glover, Snoop Dogg, Marilyn Manson, Five Finger Death Punch, Black Eyed Peas, Disney, 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Screen Gems, The Weinstein Company, Lions Gate, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Spelling Entertainment, Millennium Films, Nu Image, Xbox Live, SCI FI Network Etc.Producer & Director Info: Vincent recently garnered producing and directing credits on feature films as co-producer and executive producer. One being The 5 Million Dollar remake of "Silent Night Deadly Night" renamed "Silent Night" starring Malcolm McDowell and Sin City's Jamie King. Others include "The Employer" Hidden in the Woods" and the 2 million dollar feature film "Rock Paper Dead" Starring Michael Madson & Oscar winner Tatum O'Neal released by Lions Gate. Vincent has also made his directing debut in two upcoming horror science fiction anthology films, "The Hellevator Man" due for release in 2021 and "The Dark Tapes" which was the number one awarded horror movie of 2016 winning over 60 film awards and 88 approval rating on Rotten tomatoes. Vincent is in development on his next directing project "The Astronaut" with the financier of the Matrix and Fight Club..::Anonymous