The Godfather of Gore

While many would recall Lucio Fulci or Herschell Gordon Lewis being both titled as "The Godfather of Gore", I would like to nominate special effects artist Tom Savini instead, the creative mind behind countless splatter movies.

Tom Savini has starred, directed and made extraordinary special effects and make-up inside horror movies, especially when speaking of blood, gore, bones and more physical attributes from humanity. For several decades, The Sultan of Splatter has been recognized for his contributions.

Doing work on countless movies with signature examples such as Friday the 13th(1980), The Burning(1981), Dawn of the Dead(1978) and Monkey Shines(1988), Savini's portfolio is impressive and many early projects are memorable for the genre.

He also directed a remake of Night of the Living Dead, which George A.Romero is being credited as sending the subgenre of zombies forward into the mainstream in the original 1968 version. There are some notable differences between the two though.

Recently, his bibliography called Grande Illusions I and II have been combined where inside it is illustrated for the viewers how the art and technique of special make-up effects are put in use from the films worked on by him.

Rob Bottin's special effects from The Thing(1982) and Chris Walas's work from The Fly(1986) also deserve special mention for creating such monstreous gross abominations of effects. There is a specific name for these kind of techniques, but I can't seem to remember it. In any case, this technique has been as far as I know extinct for at least a decade, which is a shame.