Born in Detroit Michigan in 1973, Robert Green Hall started his long road to becoming one of Hollywood’s great makeup artists when as a young boy, he would turn his friends into monsters for Halloween with materials he would get from the nearby Wal-Mart. In 1996, Hall opened his own Hollywood studio called Post Human FX, a name taken from a KISS song. Working on many low-budget films for Roger Corman, the effects artist did makeup for 22 of the legendary filmmaker’s movies.
Hall got to be one of the makeup artists for the hit TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, its spinoff Angel and Firefly, all for TV show creator and film director Joss Whedon. Other effects work Hall worked on was for such films Quarantine 2, The Crazies, Big Stan, Killer Pad, and Fear Clinic of which he also directed.
The year 2004 saw Robert Green Hall sit into the director’s chair when he helmed his first feature called Lighting Bug. He also was the man behind the 2009 horror/ slasher film Laid To Rest as its writer, director, and its gore effects master. The movie, a throw-back to 80’s slasher films brought the killer Chrome Skull to the screen as a killer who hides behind a chrome-colored skull mask as he cuts people down. Hall followed this modern-day slasher pic with Chrome Skull: Laid To Rest 2 in 2011.
When Hall was not working on a movie either as its writer, director or effects artist, he enjoyed playing the bass in a rock band called Zero 1. Hall even directed music videos for Buck Cherry, Manntis and Kevn Kinney.
Sadly in 2021, Robert Green Hall past away at the age of 47 leaving his body of work as his lasting impression upon the world. Although the world lost one of the best makeup artists of the modern era, his work will live on in the body of work he has left.
