Waxwork

Anthony Hickox (born 1964) is an English film director, actor, film producer and screenwriter.

His works include Waxwork and its sequel, Waxwork II: Lost in Time, Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, “Prince Valiant”, “Children of the Corn”, “Warlock: Armageddon”, “Payback”, “Carnival of Souls”, “Knife Edge”" and “Yellow” (2012).

Anthony “Tony” Hickox comes from a family of filmmakers. He is the eldest son of the director Douglas Hickox and Academy Award winning editor Anne V. Coates and brother of editor Emma E. Hickox and director James D.R. Hickox. He is also the great grandson of Lord J. Arthur Rank who controlled the British film industry for many years.

After starting as a club premotor in london he came to LA in 1986 and became one of the most prolific horror writer/directors of the late 80’s and 90’s. His visual style often uses a dual-focus technique in which one person’s face takes up most the screen in profile, with another person shown on the other half of the screen in the background.

He then started directing action movies after creating the television show “Extreme” for ABC/Universal (he is an extreme skier himself). This led to HBO hiring him to make their first action/horror Full Eclipse which spawned their Friday night action slot that lasted over 5 years and to which Hickox made several more contributions. At the same time continuing his deal at Universal where he shot pilots for " Two", “Martian Law”, “Shoot Me!” and “New York Undercover”.

After working with Natasha McElone and William Hurt (Contaminated Man), he went on to direct Katherine Heigl and Steven Moyer in ‘Prince Valiant’, then Steven Seagal in Submerged and Eddie Griffin in Blast!, both were Blockbuster premiers and made over $15 million a piece on DVD. Recently he has completed the British horror movie Knife Edge and is staring the remake of Cat People. He is also working on a video game Invasion Earth! with his writing partner Pete Atkins, is in development on Galahad for Gale Anne Hurd and has written “Rhodesia” about Robert Mugabe’s rise to power for Micheal Radford.

He is also on the board of directors of the film distribution company 7arts pictures (NASDAQ) run by Peter Hoffman who was once chairman of Carolco (Trminator 2, Total Recall) and the production company Medient run by Indian film producer Manu Kumaran. In 2011 they financed Nick Cassavetes “Yellow” and Noel Clark’s “Storage 24” for Universal. In Feb 2012 they start on Hickox’s “Catwalk”, a thriller set during New York fashion week.

He has recorded humorous commentaries for Sundown:The Vampire in Retreat, Storm Catcher, Jill Rips, and Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, the last of which is available only on the Region 2 release.

He frequently makes cameos in his films and had a starring role in Stanley Sheff’s Lobster Man from Mars (1989), Storm Catcher and Prince Valiant. His best known acting role was as Dr. Hickox in Return Of The Living Dead 3, where he is attacked and killed by a zombie then comes back to life as a zombie himself. —Wikipedia