Tucker's Roy Wooley Dreams Up Ghoulish Creations

A competitor on the most recent season of Syfy Channel's Face Off, Wooley also crafts frightful things for Netherworld Haunted House.

As Halloween approaches, so do things that go bump in the night – at least for special effects makeup artist Roy Wooley. Tucker resident Wooley first began his stride into special effects makeup at age 17 – the quintessential moment being an underaged viewing of John Landis' An American Werewolf in London. “I was raised in a very small town,” Wooley said. “We only had one theater. If it was an 18 and up movie, you didn't get in. We actually snuck in and got to go see that and whenever I first saw that transformation scene, I was like 'That's what I want to do! Somebody made that!' And that is how I got started in it.” Wooley has spent the past 30 years building his knowledge and rapport in the special effects makeup industry. He's spent …

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