Chris Walas Movies

Two young couples are driving through a remote forest when their car breaks down. When a run-in with a curious grizzly bear ends up with the bear...

The story, set in the twenty-second century, follows the adventures of the McCallister family, owners of McCallister's Midway Inn, a...

An Elf is left behind by Santa to help rescue the Harper family from a lousy Christmas. The Elf and the family get more than they bargained for, as...

When an American plantation owner's wife and her sister interrupt an African death ritual to save the sacrificial goat, the witch doctor places a...

Chris Walas and Howie Mandel, the voice of Gizmo, describe the laborious development of Gizmo and the Gremlins and the painstaking work required to...

In the film MADE YOU LOOK, nothing is as it seems. Better keep your eyes wide open. Written and directed by Justin Zimmerman, featuring special...

Feature length documentary on the making of David Cronenberg's The Fly.

An in-depth, sad, and beautiful documentary about the stop motion and VFX artist Phil Tippett, a man who changed the landscape of visual effects in...

Retrospective documentary featuring interviews with Ethan Wiley, Sean S. Cunningham, Arye Gross and Jonathan Stark, among others.

A portrait of painter, sculptor, makeup artist, set designer and inventor Charlie Gemora.

This Documentary goes over how the special effects in the 1981 film "Scanners" were done.

The staff and vacationers at a first-class resort on the island of Maui are beginning to mysteriously disappear. A biologist believes that an...

After a small airplane crash lands in a remote area of Central China, several passengers survive, including a Chinese boy and his American guardian....

A documentary on The Fly

Take a unique behind-the-scenes journey (made especially for the Hollywood Theatre) with special effects legend Chris Walas on the making of Joe...