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Released
2011 · FILM

Nightmare Factory

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Written by
Runtime
94 min
Documentary

Synopsis

In 1989, Greg Nicotero left medical school to pursue a career in Hollywood special effects, driven by a fascination with monsters. Alongside Howard Berger and Robert Kurtzman, he co-founded KNB EFX Group, a highly influential makeup effects studio. Over the next two decades, Nicotero became a leading figure in the horror and science fiction genres, frequently called upon by directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 15

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Dennis BradleyShot by Robert ZimmermanScored by Asif Illyas

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