Carlos Henriques

Carlos Henriques has been a successful Special Effects Make-up Artist since 2002. His award-winning photorealistic effects work can be seen in many of today's Hollywood blockbusters, television series, and haunted attractions. His love for monsters began at a very early age. As a young boy, he was lucky enough to catch a midnight screening of "George A. Romero's Creepshow", and soon after, the premiere of Michael Jackson's "Thriller". He immediately became consumed with all things scary, scouring the earth for what little information there was available at the time. In a few years' time, his bedroom became a museum of the macabre, crammed with posters, books, magazines, masks and props - not for the squeamish. Several years later, Carlos attended one of the world's most prestigious special effects make-up schools and perfected skills in life-casting, prosthetics, creating molds and running product (silicones, foam latex, urethanes, resins, etc...). With many years in the film industry, Carlos has worked on over 40 projects featuring creature suits (Bottom Feeder starring Tom Sizemore); casualty make-up (Devil's Night aka. Left for Dead starring Danielle Harris and Shawn Roberts), gore (Silent but Deadly, starring Jason Mewes and William Sadler) prop-building (Death Race starring Jason Statham), and puppet-building (Celebrity Deathmatch / A Miser Brothers' Christmas featuring Mickey Rooney). His most recent film projects include Red: Werewolf Hunter, starring Felicia Day, and Witchslayer Gretl, starring Shannon Doherty, in which he served as the special effects make-up designer and supervisor. Every fall, you will find Carlos busy working on his own haunted attraction The Horrorshow, which has gained the title of Hamilton, Ontario's scariest haunted house. Carlos is presently working for Cuppa Coffee studios, the largest stop-motion studio in North America. He continues working in film, as well as running his FX studio The Butcher Shop.