During his stint as a visual effects artist and supervisor, VanHook has worked on such films as Miss Congeniality, Hart's War, Daredevil, I, Robot and many others.

This was followed by Voodoo Moon an action-horror film packed with genre stars like Eric Mabius, Charisma Carpenter, Jeffrey Combs and Dee Wallace.

[citation needed] Beginning in 2006, VanHook, along with producing partner Karen Bailey, created a series of films designed for Sci Fi Channel.

2017 saw VanHook reunited with Casper Van Dien along with Jennifer Wenger and Patrick Muldoon in the horror film Alpha Wolf written by Wes C. Caefer.

In October 2022, it was announced that Kevin VanHook had begun writing comic books for Frank Miller Presents with the title Ancient Enemies: Djinni.