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Oct 19, 2021 · Movies and TV Entertainment and Culture Columnists. ‘Smoke and Mirrors’: Meet the adorable guy who makes horrible looks. Breezy documentary tells the story of Tom Savini, an occasional actor and director best known for creating makeup and special effects for horror movies including “Friday the 13th.” By Richard Roeper. Oct 19, 2021, 3:30am PDT.
Jan 2, 2024 · F13 Hall of Fame: Tom Savini. By Christian Sellers • January 2, 2024. One of the names most associated with the slasher genre is not a director or even an actor, but a make-up artist. Tom Savini became synonymous with gory splatter effects in the early 1980s after his groundbreaking work on the likes of Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th and ...
Oct 16, 2018 · Simon Abrams October 16, 2018. Tweet. Special-effects wizard Tom Savini is most famous for his collaborations with fellow Pennsylvanian George Romero, whose “ Night of the Living Dead ” and “Dawn of the Dead” are still two of the most influential modern horror films. But Savini’s work as a character actor and director continues to ...
By Christian Sellers • May 17, 2024. Despite having missed out on the opportunity of working on George A. Romero’s seminal zombie classic Night of the Living Dead whilst serving in Vietnam, Tom Savini would become a major star within the horror genre for his work on the sequel, Dawn of the Dead, almost a decade later.
Aug 3, 2020 · The 73-year-old master of prosthetics and gore in films such as Dawn of the Dead and Friday the 13th tells Thomas Hobbs some of his secrets and how being a photographer in the Vietnam War shaped...
YouTube Movies & TV. 177M subscribers. Subscribed. 12. The definitive documentary on one of the most iconic and sought after special effects artists in horror film history, whose genre-defining...
Oct 2, 2021 · Special Makeup Effects legend, Actor, Director, Stuntman. Tom Savini has redefined the horror genre with his arsenal on talents. But who is the man behind th...
