Donn Markel

Movies

Welcome to Willits: After Sundown
Special Effects Supervisor
Deep in the woods outside the Northern California town of Willits lies a remote cabin. Here Brock waits impatiently for his friend to complete a drug deal, urging him to get there before dark, for his own safety. As night draws closer, he grows more desperate, fearing a repeat attack from alien abductors.
Taken 2
Special Effects Coordinator
In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
Teed Off
Tee-Mobile Operator
National Lampoon invites you to play a round with television and film star David Leisure and his hilarious troupe of not-ready-for-tee-time players as they pull some of the most outrageous pranks ever captured by a hidden camera. That's right, it's National Lampoon's Teed Off - skit-comedy inter-cut with hidden-camera hi-jinx on the links - where the boundaries of good taste and good golf are blurred by this totally uninhibited cast of cut-ups.
Hollow Man
Special Effects Assistant
Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.
Executive Decision
Special Effects Technician
Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers.
The Abyss
Special Effects Technician
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.
Quiet Cool
Makeup Artist
This actioner is set in a remote, heavily forested area in Northern California where marijuana growers raise their illegal crops and run whole communities with their terrorist tactics and wealth. The tale centers on the efforts of a fearless New York cop to free one such community from the tyranny of the pot growers. It begins with a surveyor who is leading the town's crooked sheriff to a small marijuana field he has just discovered. The surveyor is killed before he can get there. Joshua, a small boy, sees the execution and tries to get back in time to tell his parents. Unfortunately, the killers murder his family and throw him off a cliff. The boy's aunt, worried at not hearing from her family, gets suspicious and asks an old flame, NY cop Joe Dillon, to investigate. The town sheriff is not pleased by his intrusion and warns him to stay out of it. Dillon disobeys, and that is where all the action comes in.
Evils of the Night
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Sex-hungry teens are kidnapped by auto mechanics, who take them to a rural hospital run by aliens who need their blood as the key to their own longevity.
Evils of the Night
Makeup Effects
Sex-hungry teens are kidnapped by auto mechanics, who take them to a rural hospital run by aliens who need their blood as the key to their own longevity.
Prime Risk
Makeup Artist
While siphoning bank funds, computer-wise lovers spot a plot to sink the Federal Reserve.
Savage Dawn
Special Effects Makeup Artist
A vicious biker gang takes over a small town in Arizona. A Vietnam War vet passing through town and a few locals with nothing to lose go to war with the gang's ruthless leader.
Exterminator 2
Makeup Effects
The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gang.