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WATCH: From Hocus Pocus to Shape of Water, monster maker Doug Jones shared creature career secrets at Emerald City Comic Con 2022

He's been in What We Do in the Shadows, Star Trek: Discovery, and was freaking ABE SAPIEN in the Hellboy movies. But at ECCC '22, Doug Jones needed no SFX to make a sensation

Features by Grant DeArmitt, Staff Writer

Additional contributions by Vito Scutti

Published on Thu Dec 04 2025

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How many people have a career comparable to Doug Jones? Lon Cheney? Boris Karloff? Maybe kinda Andy Serkis? The point I'm getting at is that the list creature actor Jones is on is a short one, and that the Shape of Water star is fairly close to the top of it. Which is why we were sure to be at Emerald City Comic Con 2022, when the What We Do in the Shadows and Buffy the Vampire Slayer icon took the stage before a massive crowd of freak fans for an unforgettable tell-all.

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Grant DeArmitt: Grant DeArmitt (he/him) likes horror, comics, and the unholy union of the two. In the past, and despite their better judgment, he has written for Nightmare on Film Street and Newsarama. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Kingsley, and corgi, Legs.