Tom Savini: Horror Effects (2008) Poster

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BandSAboutMovies10 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Not released until 2008 but probably shot sometime in the 90s, this is less learning the techniques of Savini and more he and John Russo taking a trip down memory lane, talking about the movies they had worked on together and new films that Savini is just starting on like Two Evil Eyes, so yeah, this was around 1990 or so.

When it was shot, this would be the only way that you could see Heartstopper and I'm so glad they left the scene in where Tom keeps doing sets in his home gym while his wife begs him to put a baby in her.

This was directed by Paul McCollough, who shot The Winners, There's Always Vanilla, The Booby Hatch, FleshEater and Midnight, as well as edited The Booby Hatch, FleshEater, Midnight, The Majorettes and Heartstopper. He also composed the music for remake of Night of the Living Dead, Legion of the Night and Santa Claws.

Russo is a total carny and you know, I kind of love that. I've given him money for posters covered in coffee stains and don't feel bad at all about it.
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Fair Interview with Savini
Michael_Elliott7 February 2012
Horror Effects Hosted by Tom Savini (2008)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

This thing was shot sometime in the late 80s and features John A. Russo sitting down with Tom Savini and interviewing him in his studio. The end result certainly isn't as good as one would hope but I think die-hard fans of Savini will still want to check it out if just for some of the behind-the-scenes stuff. Savini talks about some of his favorite creations including his work on Tales from the Darkside and he also talks about "Fluffy" from CREEPSHOW. We also get some footage of work on the set of CREEPSHOW where they are trying to get the skeleton at the window to work and Savini talks about how that was done. Other topics include TILL DEATH DO WE SCARE, doing stunts on THE BURNING, a Grandpa joke from Texas CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 and he also mentions that he's about to start work on a film called TWO EVIL EYES. Russo certainly isn't much of an interviewer but I think the main purpose of this was to get into talk about their film together, HEARTSTOPPER. We get all sorts of clips from that movie and several stories. The most disappointing thing is that we don't get to see enough actual work that Savini has done on all of these films. There are several stories told but there's no question that more visual stuff is needed.
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4/10
Disappointed nonsense
mrdonleone14 March 2020
Imagine that you're a nobody, new on the world. Bet you would love this documentary. It shows everything about Satan in the movie industry bring ruled by the Illuminati. Effects of horror movies?? Ha!!! Don't make me laugh.
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