{"id":12854,"date":"2014-10-24T22:16:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T04:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=12854"},"modified":"2014-10-24T22:16:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T04:16:42","slug":"tom-savini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=12854","title":{"rendered":"Tom Savini"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh-born actor\/SFX wizard\/stuntman\/director Tom Savini did a tour of duty as a combat cameraman in Vietnam, and has since acquired a remarkable cult following among film fans, primarily due to his ground-breaking SFX in the “splatter movie” explosion of the early 1980s. Along with fellow special make-up legends Dick Smith<\/a> and Rob Bottin<\/a>, Savini was one of the key SFX people behind the startling make-up & EFX seen in the fantasy\/horror genre films of the 1980s-’90s. Savini was heavily influenced by the remarkable silent-era actor Lon Chaney<\/a>, and he sought to emulate the amazing theatrical make-up effects that were a hallmark of Chaney’s career. In Savini’s insightful book “Grande Illusions”, he speaks of his early attempts at applying prosthetics to his face using “spearmint gum”, having misinterpreted that he was meant to actually use “spirit gum”!<\/p>\n

His first work was in low-budget fare, providing SFX and make-up for independently made horror films such as Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile