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Mark Shostrom is a special makeup effects artist for the film industry. He is the winner of three Emmy awards and has been nominated for four Saturn Awards by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. Shostrom designed and created special makeup effects for numerous cult horror films of the 1980s and 1990s, in particular the film series and sequels of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Phantasm and Evil Dead II. He also contributed special makeup effects to music videos for The Ramones and Nine Inch Nails. Shostrom was encouraged to pursue makeup as a 13 year-old boy after befriending Evelyn Karloff, widow of Boris Karloff, the actor who portrayed the original Frankenstein monster in the 1931 Universal Studios classic.
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