Julia Hapney

History

Julia Hapney grew up in a small town in south-eastern Ohio and came to Hollywood, California in 2004 to make movies. She was inspired by Stephen King, Wes Craven, and George Romero to name a few. By the tender age of 10 she was reading Stephen King and had viewed the entire horror section at her local video store. After high school she attended college concentrating on biology and hoping to study sharks, but left early after realizing her true passion was film. She then moved to California and enrolled in film school where she studied directing and screen-writing. While in film school Julia found her niche: make-up. She then attended make-up school and has been working as a make-up artist ever since, doing both high-fashion beauty makeup as well as special make-up effects.

Movies

Bloodthirst
Makeup Designer
In a post apocalyptic world run by vampires, only the strong survive. John Shepard, Vampire Hunter, is one of them. John has to track down and eliminate the master vampire before he himself gets turned.
The Relic
Special Effects Makeup Artist
A group of adventurers in search of a mythological object get more than they bargained for when they discover the legend foretelling the end of all life in the universe could actually be true.
Zombie (UK)
Special Effects Makeup Artist
With mass hysteria, panic, breakdown of infrastructure, no law in place and very little food and water, how long could you survive? Don't believe all you read online...but it might just save your life if you do! This virus has gone viral!
Verotika
Special Effects Makeup Artist
An anthology, based on the comics of the same name by Glenn Danzig, in which the erotic and horrific combine to create multiple ghoulish tales of bloodlust, murder, the occult and the forbidden.
Boléro
Makeup Department Head
In a dystopian future where telepaths are deployed at the service of a militant regime, a mute girl takes revenge on her father's killer while simultaneously helping the resistance.
Am I a Serial Killer?
Hair Department Head
A teenage girl visits her mom on death row and gets lured into a dangerous trap to take the fall for her mother's crimes.
Killer Under The Bed
Hair Department Head
New to town, a bullied teenager discovers a doll, riddled with pins, in her backyard shed. She soon comes to believe that the doll holds supernatural powers.
The Basement
Special Effects Makeup Artist
A seemingly innocent man is abducted by a notorious L.A. serial killer, who forces his victims to switch roles with him so that he can enact his own capture, torture and murder.
The Basement
Makeup Department Head
A seemingly innocent man is abducted by a notorious L.A. serial killer, who forces his victims to switch roles with him so that he can enact his own capture, torture and murder.
A Play
Makeup Artist
Two friends go to see a play and realize just how terrifying supporting the arts can be.
Mistress Hunter
Hair Department Head
Jackie hires a mistress hunter to come between her husband and his mistress. But when the mistress and her husband wind up dead, Jackie becomes the number one suspect.
Stalked by a Reality Star
Hair Department Head
When teenager Kendra lies about her age to get into a Hollywood party, she meets handsome reality TV star, Brad. But when she discovers that Brad is not as charming as he seems, Kendra rejects him, only to realize that he has become obsessed with her and will stop at nothing--including dating her widowed mother--to be near her.
The Campus
Special Effects
Robert Wainwright dies after breaking his deal with the Devil, passing that debt onto his estranged daughter Morgan. She soon finds herself in a never-ending cycle of terror as she is brutally murdered then resurrected over and over again, each time losing a piece of her soul. Now she must discover why this is happening and break the deadly cycle in order to escape.
Psycho In-Law
Key Makeup Artist
It's been two years since Tina's husband-to-be, Brock, lost his first wife in a tragic accident. Everyone is thrilled to see Brock so happy with Tina, including his eight-year-old daughter Harper. It seems Tina's only obstacle to happily ever after is Joyce, Brock's former mother-in-law, who is determined to stop the marriage and keep Harper to herself. Joyce's attempts to disrupt the happy couple quickly escalate and it becomes clear that Joyce will do anything to keep Tina from walking down the aisle. Katie Leclerc and Catherine Dyer star.
Bob Thunder: Internet Assassin
Makeup Artist
Joe Nation wants to go viral on YouTube and reach Internet fame. But things take a turn for the worse when he mistakenly hires Bob Thunder, a cold-blooded killer, to help him.
Bound to Vengeance
Key Makeup Artist
A young woman, Eve, fights back and manages to escape a malicious abductor. However, after discovering she may not be the only victim, Eve unravels a darker truth and decides to turn the tables on her captor.
Inner Demons
Makeup Effects
INNER DEMONS follows an 'Intervention'-style reality show crew that films an episode about a sixteen-year old girl, a former A-student, who is fighting addiction but may in fact be suffering from something even more destructive: demonic possession. The movie is an inquiry into the truth about her - with symptoms that straddle the disturbing and scary intersection between insanity, addiction and true possession.
The Captain
Makeup Artist
A hungover plane captain wakes up to discover he's done a very bad thing.
Return of the Killer Shrews
Special Effects Technician
A reality TV crew charter a boat to an island for filming, one which the boat's captain had been to before and attacked by giant shrews, more than fifty years earlier.
Buckets
Makeup Artist