Shock & Horror Report · FX house

Spectral Motion

Glendale, Los Angeles, United States · founded 1994 by Mike Elizalde

The shop directors call when a monster has to act. Spectral Motion's animatronic faces carry dialogue scenes, which is why Guillermo del Toro and the Duffer brothers keep going back — the Demogorgon is theirs.

Tracked credits
4
Credited budgets
$139M
theatrical titles only
Slate demand
60
42 2026 titles in its lanes
Slate gross exposure
$1.32B
reported worldwide on tracked titles

Disciplines

Animatronic charactersCreature suitsProsthetic makeupCharacter design

Credits & reported budgets

TitleYearWorkBudget
Blade II2002Reaper creature design and animatronics$54M
Hellboy2004Hellboy and Abe Sapien makeup effects$66M
Pan's Labyrinth2006Pale Man and Faun creature effects$19M
Stranger Things2016Demogorgon suit and animatronicsTV · reported $6M+ per episode in later seasons

3 theatrical titles with reported budgets · figures exclude marketing

Current slate exposure

Obsession

2026 · $474.7 million

Backrooms

2026 · $395 million

Disclosure Day

2026 · $241 million

Titles on the tracked slate inside this shop's genre lanes (SUPR · TECH)