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Tom Savini was a combat photographer in Vietnam, a horrific ordeal that he would later use to create some of the most jaw dropping make-up effects in film history. Savini took horror movie FX to a new level in the seventies and eighties - his impalings, machete attacks, shotgun blasts, and ripped apart victims looked painfully real. Savini believed in using actors instead of dummies whenever possible, this led to a level of authenticity few others could match. The actor could scream, roll their eyes, etc. One of his famous techniques was cutting the blade of a machete to fit around a victims neck or head creating a repulsive effect which left the actor free to express their fear and pain.
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Tom Savini is the makeup and special effects master known for his work on gory horror films. He was a combat photographer in the Vietnam War. Films he has worked on include Friday the 13th, Creepshow, Day of the Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Savini directed the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead.
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Made for reasons of profit (by writer/producer George Romero's own admission), Tom Savini's remake of Night of the Living Dead doesn't seem so much mercenary as perfunctory. Highly watchable and reasonably frightening, it suffers from familiarity for most of its running time, a final third offering the only significant departure from the original. Still, it's a pretty rich story and Savini does right by it, serving up tension, jolts, and gore in good measure. Helping out are good performances by Patricia Tallman and especially Tony Todd, probably the best actor to work almost exclusively in the horror genre. Not a necessary film, and, thanks its familiarity, lacking most of the impact of the original, it's still a superior effort when compared to most of its horror contemporaries. ~ Keith Phipps, All Movie Guide
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August 13, 2007 -- Andrew Divoff (of "Wishmaster") and Tom Savini are in Ohio filming the vampire horror film "Dead Matter." Midnight Syndicate Films, in partnership with Hollywood FX producer Robert Kurtzman and his company, Precinct 13 Entertainment, began production on “The Dead Matter” feature-length, horror-suspense film, this week, in Crestline, Ohio. Chardon, Ohio-based director and producer Edward Douglas – founder of the nationally-recognized Halloween horror music act Midnight Syndicate – is remaking his original version of the film into Northeast Ohio’s largest locally-produced and independently -funded film, scheduled for release in 2008. Filming is scheduled for the entire month of August.
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Inspired by the film Man of a Thousand Faces, a young Tom Savini became fascinated with the magic and illusion of film. He spent his youth in his room creating characters by tirelessly practicing make-up. Later, as a combat photographer in Vietnam, Savini saw first-hand the gruesome carnage for which he later gained fame, simulating it on screen. Anonymous
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Tom Savini was offered the special make-up effects job in Night Of The Living Dead 1968 when George Romero came to his School to recruit extras. Tom never made it to the job because he was later drafted to go to Vietnam. Savini then saw first-hand the gruesome carnage for which he later gained fame, simulating it on screen.
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