Visual Effects

Robert Skotak

Born

1945-05-17 (81)

Place of birth

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Known for

Visual Effects

Credits

7 titles

Known for

Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens' poster
7.5

This feature-length documentary, made especially for the 2003 Aliens (1986) DVD release, is incredibly informative with all its interviews with both the cast and crew, as well as behind the scenes footage filmed during the making of the film. Every possible element towards what went into making the movie is included here and gives fans an overload of information to fill their brains with.

Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'

2003

Timespace poster
NR

n the futuristic, mythical planet called “Null,” a super-technology is beginning to over-run the planet’s surface and dominate the lives of its inhabitants. A woman tells a small child the story of a man named John. John is a rather eccentric individual—an outsider in his world. He is troubled by voices and fearful premonitions about his future.

Timespace

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The Sky Is Falling: Making 'The War of the Worlds' poster
8.0

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of the 1953 sci-fi classic "The War of the Worlds". Included are interviews with some of the cast and crew and unreleased footage from the film itself.

The Sky Is Falling: Making 'The War of the Worlds'

2005

Invasion Earth: The Aliens Are Here poster
3.4

Insect-like aliens invade a small town. The local teenagers have been watching a sci-fi marathon in the local theater, and from those films they get ideas on how to fight the creatures.

Invasion Earth: The Aliens Are Here

1988

The Star Dreamer poster
5.6

The Russian filmmaker, Pavel Klusjantsev, has had an extraordinary influence on an entire genre of films. Throughout his career at the film studio in St. Petersburg, Klushantsev pioneered and invented legendary techniques for filming the planets, stars and weightnessless - long before anyone else. He went on to redefine the science fiction genre and influence the way Hollywood made their science fiction films, including the Academy Award-winning Visual Effects Master, Robert Skotak, a man who spent years trying to track Klushantsev down

The Star Dreamer

2002

The Making of ‘Tremors’ poster
7.5

An archive documentary from 1996, directed by Laurent Bouzereau, tracing the production of the film through interviews with the filmmakers and special effects teams.

The Making of ‘Tremors’

1998

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

Behind the camera