Tom Savini

I asked them what costume store they got it from, and they told me it was actually homemade.

At the time, I had guessed that their parents must have been makeup and costume designers or something like Tom Savini or Rick Baker.

I asked them how much candy they had managed to scoop up.

So much candy! Enough for a lifetime! I asked them if they were partaking in the contest to go to Disneyland.

Right.

In fact, the 1990 remake, Tom Savini actually put that in motion with George Romero's blessing.

And the reason Tom Savini wanted to do it is he wanted to make money for Romero because he missed out on all the money from the original Night of the Living Dead.

So that was the actual purpose of the remake.

And so the remake had Romero's blessing.

So Romero influenced both the comic creator and the filmmaker that brought it to television.

This one I thought was interesting.

Greg Nicotero, the Walking Dead's makeup effects designer, director, and executive producer, began his film career on Romero's Day of the Dead working under Tom Savini.

And if it wasn't for that scene, we may not have gotten it.

And Tom Savini was big on wanting to get this scene in there.

And with the prosthetics, was there anything you were able to give a little bit of recommendation on when he was putting this together, the design for the character? Did you have any say in it, how it could look?

Yeah.

So there were several versions.

Now, the very first version we didn't use because they felt it looked terrible.

too realistic and that people would sympathize with little jason so this is for the drowning sequence so we did that twice the second time we did the drowning sequence they kind of made him look a little more repulsive change the nose a little bit you know just slightly um and i think that one has to uh really hand it to tom savini and his sculpting skills, which are not always seen as, you know, like he's does a lot of stuff.

He blows up a lot of stuff and he does a lot of weapons stuff and he was sex machine and he's a character in and of himself.

know? Yeah,

I wanted to be Rick Baker, Tom Savini, you know, Dick Smith, like all these people.

And my dad was real nurturing of that when I was a kid.

That's dope.

Creepcon? Before Creepcon? Yeah, Fangoria.

It was like the Fangoria convention and creation.

And, you know, I used to go to these and like follow Tom Savini around and, you know, all that kind of stuff.

A GOAT.

Also interesting in the graphic title they use in two, it actually blows up the words.

Is that a subtle reproach from the now in control producer collective saying like, hey, we're doing our own thing, Sean S. Cunningham? There's also no Tom Savini who did the special effects in the first film.

Why? Don't really know.

Tom Savini is quoted in a couple of these – there's two very long form documentary histories of the franchise.

One of them is like six and a half hours long.

I'm sure it was a TV series but like can you imagine spending six and a half – I mean granted, it covers all the films up to like 2020 or something.

So I shouldn't mock that because there are a number of them, right? But I mean – Do you need six hours of production detail about all of these films? Like, I guess anyway, what's funny to me about those things is you get to see kind of everyone's kind of, let's call it historically changed perspectives on why things did or didn't happen.

For example, why didn't Tom Savini do the effects for the second film? I guess one of his retrospective interviews claims it was because he didn't appreciate the use of the fact that Jason apparently has survived and has now grown up unseen.

Oh, I was going to say Danny Elfman-esque.

Oh, Tom Savini does the makeup.

He's important.

Stephen Miner, associate producer.

You're going to like this week's game.

This week, you have selected us to cover the 1990 remake by Tom Savini of Night of the Living Dead with the same name, Night of the Living Dead.

This film follows a group of survivors kind of led by Ben and Barbara through.

Well, that's kind of debatable.

It's a snail's pace.

Tension is non-existent.

Practical effects for 1990 are fucking diabolical, considering it's Tom Savini, who in the 80s done better shit than he does in this movie.

I was really disappointed.

So this one has lingering, gruesome, quite stilted at times, but no holds barred, gory stuff.

It's Tom Savini.

who didn't want to participate in the Friday the 13th sequel because he thinks it was stupid because Jason is in fact dead and him returning as any kind of antagonist was preposterous to him I'm wondering if some of these are a bit clunky because it says uh fx sequences designed by tom savini so usually you'd have an effects person work with the director and team up to get these sort of magic tricks on camera uh you'd work together with someone but i think it was maybe handed over as tony malem i think the director so maybe he's handed that over to tom um but they're a bit clunky um And they're a bit jarring, a bit repetitive.

He does like the garden shears and you can only do so much with it.

The first thing I'd mentioned is Tom Savini does this thing.

He did it famously in Friday the 13th where a girl gets axed in the head.

He does this thing where I think he says famously, do you want a fake head and a real ax? Or a fake axe and a real head.

And it turns out he is actually still alive.