Most of the projects Castro works on call for him to create practical effects. Some of the colorful titles he’s worked on over the past 30 years include Attack of the Bat Monsters, Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat, Gorilla Warfare: Battle of the Apes, Sleepaway Camp 2: Steve and Michelle Go to Hell, RoboWoman, The Occultist 2: Bloody Guinea Pigs and Big Freaking Rat. More than a dozen more are in some phase of production. Since then, Castro has been a prolific special effects artist who’s worked on more than 70 completed feature and short films, mostly in the B-horror-movie genre. “I went there without having any connections whatsoever.”Ĭastro’s first job was at Universal Studios “picking up cigarette butts.” Within a year, he landed his first special effects gig on an animated horror-comedy called Evil Toons starring the late David Carradine ( Kill Bill). “The first chance I got, I moved to L.A.,” Castro said. A couple of years prior, he won a national special effects makeup contest sponsored by Monsterland magazine and was flown to Los Angeles where he got a closer look at the industry that he wanted to be a part of. Today, Castro, who’s openly gay, works as a special effects artist in Hollywood, where he moved a year after graduating from John Marshall High School in 1988. From there, I knew I had one goal in life.”
“After the movie was over, I asked him about what I just saw, and he told me it was special effects.
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“My father sat me down in front of the TV and said, ‘Watch this son, you’re going to like it,’” Castro, 52, told the Current during a recent interview. Hedorah for the first time at the behest of his father, who he was spending the weekend with on his goat farm in Helotes, Texas. It was the summer of 1977 when a 7-year-old Castro watched the Japanese kaiju film Godzilla vs. Joe Castro can point to the exact moment he fell in love with movies. Special effects artist Joe Castro has made a name for himself working on low-budget horror movies.
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