Tom Savini

ACTOR, MAKE_UP_DEPARTMENT, SPECIAL_EFFECTS

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

Actor/SFX wizard/stuntman/director Tom Savini was born in Pittsburgh. Inspired by the film Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), a young 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.He has 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 and Rob Bottin, 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, 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"! His first work was in low-budget fare, providing SFX and make-up for independently made horror films such as Deranged (1974) and Martin (1977).He really caught the attention of horror buffs with his grisly effects in the cult George A. Romero-directed zombie film Dawn of the Dead (1978), and then in the controversial slasher film Friday the 13th (1980), the movie generally identified as the kickstart for the aforementioned "splatter movie" genre. Savini also contributed the incredible EFX & make-up to other splatter thrillers such as Maniac (1980), The Burning (1981), Creepshow (1982) and Romero's third "Dead" film, Day of the Dead (1985) (for which he won a Saturn Award). In 1990, Savini directed his feature film debut Night of the Living Dead (1990), the remake of the original zombie-classic.Not content with only being behind the lens, however, Savini has appeared in dozens of films, and can be seen demonstrating his capable acting skills as "Morgan, the Black Knight" in Knightriders (1981), as "Blades", one of the biker gang members in Dawn of the Dead (1978) and as "Sex Machine", another leather-clad biker--but this time with a groin-mounted gun--in the wild vampire film From Dusk Till Dawn (1996). - IMDb Mini Biography By: firehouse44@hotmail.com

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Tom Savini’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Tom Savini on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1981 to 2020. See the full graphs of the number of Tom Savini movies released per year from 2004 till 2020.

Top Genres

Tom Savini works mostly in Horror Genre followed by Documentary Genre flixes. 44% of Tom Savini movies are Horror Genre movies. See Top Genres that Tom Savini worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Tom Savini has worked on is 5.4.

5.4 / 10

Tom Savini's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

The unburied dead return to life and seek human victims.

6.8/1092 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

A medieval reenactment troupe find it increasingly difficult to keep their family-like group together, with pressure from local law enforcement, interest from entertainment agents and a growing sense of delusion from their leader.

6.3/10146 min

Available in 16 platform(s).

Fantasy,Horror
Creepshow 2 (1987)

Three more bone-chilling tales that include a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and a hitchhiker who wants revenge and will not die.

6/1092 min

Available in 15 platform(s).

A real-life zombie epidemic is spreading. Inspired by the increasing popularity of zombie movies and television shows, men, women and children across the globe use gruesome makeup and ...

5.9/1070 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Horror,Mystery,Thriller
The Theatre Bizarre (2011)

Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and ...

5.1/10114 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Action,Horror,Mystery
The Sadist (2015)

A combat veteran, with serious psychological damage, stalks campers and hunters in the woods.

4.4/1076 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

An anthology of three horror stories presented by George Romero. In "Quota," a pair of young lovers drive to Lovers' Leap, only to be attacked by a mysterious creature. In "Wet," a lonely ...

3.9/1077 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Tells the story of a vampire relic with occult powers that falls into the hands of a grief-stricken young woman who will do anything to contact her dead brother.

3.4/1093 min

Available in 3 platform(s).