A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Joe Mercurio
Joe P. Mercurio
Joseph Mercurio
Special Effects:
1973 Arnold
1978 The Clone Master
1979 North Dallas Forty
1980 Serial
1982 48 Hrs.
1982 An Officer and a Gentleman
1985 Vision Quest
1995 Twelve Monkeys
2009 Halloween II
Special Effects Assistant:
1973 Arnold
1978 The Clone Master
1979 North Dallas Forty
1980 Serial
1982 48 Hrs.
1982 An Officer and a Gentleman
1985 Vision Quest
1995 Twelve Monkeys
1999 8MM
2009 Halloween II
Special Effects Coordinator:
1973 Arnold
1978 The Clone Master
1979 North Dallas Forty
1980 Serial
1982 48 Hrs.
1982 An Officer and a Gentleman
1985 Vision Quest
1986 King Kong Lives
1990 I'm Dangerous Tonight
1992 Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive
1992 Out on a Limb
1995 Twelve Monkeys
1999 8MM
2009 Halloween II
Special Effects Supervisor:
1973 Arnold
1978 The Clone Master
1979 North Dallas Forty
1980 Serial
1982 48 Hrs.
1982 An Officer and a Gentleman
1985 Vision Quest
1986 King Kong Lives
1986 One Crazy Summer
1989 Johnny Handsome
1990 I'm Dangerous Tonight
1992 Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive
1992 Out on a Limb
1995 Twelve Monkeys
1999 8MM
2009 Halloween II
Visual Effects:
1973 Arnold
1978 The Clone Master
1979 North Dallas Forty
1980 Serial
1982 48 Hrs.
1982 An Officer and a Gentleman
1985 Silver Bullet
1985 Vision Quest
1986 King Kong Lives
1986 One Crazy Summer
1989 Johnny Handsome
1990 I'm Dangerous Tonight
1992 Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive
1992 Out on a Limb
1995 Twelve Monkeys
1999 8MM
2009 Halloween II
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.