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just this character. It was the first horror

icon, as pinhead, that I saw, and I fell in love

with horror movies at three years old

from his performance. So I think if I

ever got the chance to meet Doug Bradley I

would probably pass out. Just that excited. [MUSIC] -I mean, I've been told I'm the

greatest actor who ever lived, which I've been told. So take a backseat, James Mason,

Marlon Brando, the rest of you. Numero uno. I mean, that's nuts. My name is Doug Bradley. I am best known, particularly

at horror conventions for having played Pinhead

in the "Hellraiser" series. I've also done a ton of other

movies, TV work, stage work. I wrote a book even. I was a fan of horror

movies as a teenager, before I knew I was

going to be an actor. And when I became

an actor I didn't have any particular ambition

to work in the genre, so the two have come

together quite happily. When I first started

doing the conventions, I was slightly freaked

out by mom dad, and the kids coming to my table. And the parents will be saying,

oh he loves your movies, and I'm looking at him and

he's like seven years old, and I, you know, not really

comfortable with that. But I now have so many

people come to my table who are clearly entirely together

and, you know, rational, calm human beings who

encountered these movies when there were

6, 7, 8 year olds. The evidence of 20 years

of coming to conventions is telling me that

it doesn't really, you know, OK people will

have nightmares fora couple of months, a couple of weeks,

a few nights, whatever. But nobody seems, to me, to be

permanently scarred or damaged. -I'm really excited

-- I got two VIP tickets to Crypticon

for my birthday. I get to meet Doug

Bradley -- Pinhead , in all of the most important

"Hellraiser" films. When I meet Doug

Bradley, I'm pretty sure I'll have the

most enormous nerdgasm in the history of ever. I'm gonna be nervous -- I

already am nervous to meet him. I honestly don't know

what I'm going to do. It's one of those moments

where like, don't be a freak. Just do not be a freak. [MUSIC] -I walked around a little bit,

saw some awesome movie posters. Then I turned a corner and

there was Doug Bradley, and I freaked out. I had to walk away. I couldn't handle myself. So I turned the corner,

and there was Dee Wallace. And again I had to keep walking. I'm still freaking out. Like honestly, freaking out. And it's gonna be

even more when I go back to actually

meet Doug Bradley. It was awesome. I'm really proud

that I didn't vomit, because I though that

was gonna happen. And I showed him my tattoo,

and he translated it himself. [SPEAKING LATIN] Wow. -He didn't ask what it meant. He's like, wait

-- do I look like someone who cares

what God thinks? In Latin. That's amazing. I was like -- and then I told

him that I've been a fan since I was three, and so we shared

stories about things like, you remember

watching it at three? And I was like, yeah. How could I not? It was "Hellraiser." my friend

Brinn, that does my tattoes can photocopy the signature

and tattoo it on me when I get home. 'Cause I'm

definitely planning some kind of Hellraiser-themed tattoo now. I have been for a while,

but now it's official. It's gonna happen. My experience at Criptocon

has been great so far. I'm gonna try and make

it back next year. See who else is here. It's really fun. I had a lot of -- I'm gonna

have so many stories to tell. I didn't vomit! -Hold on one second,

I'm going out of frame, but I'll be right back. I still say it's the

standard that CGI effects, though helpful,

though cost effective, will never replace

good, crafted, animatronics and makeup effects. -Hello! So it was a six-piece

application. There was like one

piece that was here, then cheeks, including

around the ears. Neck . From the eyes, up here,

and then another piece over the back of the head. It did get simplified to a

two-piece application later. The nails, preset in the latex. So as the pieces get glued on

to my head, the nails go on. So when people ask

me, did it hurt? Did you really have nails

banged in your head? I say, yes I did. I have very good healing flesh. And I'm sponsored by Tylenol. -I started modifying

masks when I was little. I would take masks that

I had around the house, or that I got really cheap,

and paint them, and cut them up so they would

fit my face better. And try and hot glue them,

and random things like that. -I also just had a

fascination with monsters, as a young boy, who wouldn't? It kind me to mask

making when I got older, and get into some

special effects hobbies , I guess you could say. Nothing too professional,

but a lot of fun. I have, the Wolfman, and

Frankenstein, and Dracula. And on my back I have the

Bride of Frankenstein. -My name is Dutch, and I'm

a professional face and body artist. The piece I'm working on right

now is gonna be, sort of, a corset made out of human body

parts all stitched together. It's a step by step process

where you have kinda layer things on, and detail

it out as you go, and then the finishing touches

kind of all comes together, and you get your

finished product. -I started out as a

makeup artist back in, I guess about 1989/1990

in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. I started doing

make up for the film school that was

there at the time. And the very first

"Final Destination," I was the effects designer. And I've also done a slew

of Sci-fi Channel Network, you know, creature of

the week type movies. Many of those. The last say, 3 or 4 years, I've

been teaching makeup effects, as well as writing and

directing my own feature films. -I'm just going for

patches of skin, and eventually I'll paint

the Lisa's on there -- do some others texturing with

the skin, and stuff like that. And it will look really

sharp when it's all done. -I think what makes it

New Image College of Fine Arts different than any other

school in North America, basically is the fact that we

actually make feature films at the school that end

up being distributed. So we specialize in horror

movies, monster movies, and the acting department --

the acting students get to act in the feature

film, and the makeup department does the make up. My favorite special

effect that I've done would be working on David

Cronenberg's "Existence." I was in Toronto for

about six months. Cronenberg is my, you

know, my filmmaking idol. I mean, being fellow Canadian,

Cronenberg is God to me. So to work on that, and

have him coming around while I'm sculpting one of the

little amphibious creatures, and he'd come by and

say, oh that's cool, you know, I love

what you're doing. I'm just like, oh! I'm in heaven, you know? -Our school is handing

out a crap ton of money and scholarships, so

we sponsored this. And it was just a

chance to kind of, you know, see some of the

talent south of the border, and you know, find some people

that might be interested. You know, 'cause a lot of people

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