A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Eddie E. Surkin
Eddie Etan Surkin
Special Effects:
1981 Escape from New York
1984 Who Will Love My Children?
1985 Deadly Messages
1988 Ghost Town
1989 Fear Stalk
1991 Do or Die
1992 Hard Hunted
1992 Single White Female
1993 Fit to Kill
1996 Alien Nation: Millennium
1997 The Devil's Child
1997 Vanishing Point
1999 The Darwin Conspiracy
2003 Manhood
2005 Berkeley
Special Effects Coordinator:
1981 Escape from New York
1984 Who Will Love My Children?
1985 Deadly Messages
1986 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
1988 Black Eagle
1988 Disaster at Silo 7
1988 Ghost Town
1989 Fear Stalk
1989 The Wizard
1990 83 Hours 'Til Dawn
1991 Do or Die
1992 Hard Hunted
1992 In My Daughter's Name
1992 Single White Female
1993 Fit to Kill
1996 Alien Nation: Millennium
1997 The Devil's Child
1997 Vanishing Point
1999 Storm Catcher
1999 The Darwin Conspiracy
2003 Manhood
2005 Berkeley
2007 The Gene Generation
Special Effects Supervisor:
1981 Escape from New York
1984 Who Will Love My Children?
1985 Deadly Messages
1986 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
1987 Prison
1988 Black Eagle
1988 Disaster at Silo 7
1988 Ghost Town
1989 Fear Stalk
1989 The Wizard
1990 83 Hours 'Til Dawn
1991 Do or Die
1992 Hard Hunted
1992 In My Daughter's Name
1992 Single White Female
1993 Fit to Kill
1995 Alien Nation: Body and Soul
1996 Alien Nation: Millennium
1997 The Devil's Child
1997 Vanishing Point
1999 Storm Catcher
1999 The Darwin Conspiracy
2003 Manhood
2005 Berkeley
2007 The Gene Generation
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.