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When effects designer David Leroy Anderson took his first meeting with Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard about their planned horror movie spectacular The Cabin in the Woods, he wasn’t exactly optimistic. After two decades in the business working on everything from Alien Nation and Pet Sematary to Get Smart and Angels & Demons, he’d grown grudgingly accustomed to having his specialty — designing and building practical monsters and makeup — usurped by the unquenchable beast of digital imagery. “You walk into the meeting with a list of 20 things you wanted to talk about,” he says, “and you leave the meeting with two things that you get to build, and everything else goes to visual effects.”

Instead, Whedon (who co-wrote and produced the film) and Goddard (who co-wrote and directed it) pitched Anderson their story — how it was about a bunch of college kids partying for a weekend at what they thought was a secluded lakeside cabin, but in reality was a highly controlled arena for ritual slaughter that could hypothetically employ practically every movie monster in the history of horror cinema. And they wanted Anderson to make all of them.

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David LeRoy Anderson

Birth name:

David LeRoy Anderson

Place of birth:

Venice, California, USA

David LeRoy Anderson(born1 May1965; age 59) worked makeup and special effects for Star Trek Into Darkness. Anderson is also the husband of Heather Langenkampwho appeared in the film, and who, together, own and operate AFX Studio. Anderson began his career in the 1980s, working with his father Lanceon Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. [1]^(X)

In 1988, Anderson contributed to The Serpent and the Rainbow, with Francis Guinan, Paul Guilfoyle and Dey Young. Anderson also helped to create the look of the Tenctonese in Alien Nation co-starring Leslie Bevis, Earl BoenRoger Aaron Brown, Frank Collison, Jeff Kober, Brian Thompson, and Keone Young. In 1989, Anderson oversaw effects for Pet Sematary starring Denise Crosby, Brad Greenquist and Kavi Raz. Anderson and Langenkamp provided makeup for Shocker in which she co-starred alongside Brent Spiner, Dendrie Taylor, and John Tesh.

In the 1990s Anderson appeared in Young Guns II (1990, starring Robert Knepper, David Paul Needles, Leon Rippy, Alan Ruck, Christian Slater, and Tracey Walter, Met at Work (1990, starring Leslie Hope and costarring Geoffrey Blake,