Comments on: Woeful tales of the fanboy circuit: Tom Savini

By: Terry Owen

Terry Owen — Sat, 11 May 2013 20:52:19 +0000

Savini is so good with the Q & A sessions, he really loves an audience and he has plenty of entertaining stories to tell. watch the Q & A from Spooky Empire- Orlando 2012, we all had a great time with him that day.

By: Emm

Emm — Wed, 08 May 2013 22:23:29 +0000

I was also at Texas Frightmare Weekend and Tom Savini was the highlight of the trip. I thought the line for Danny Trejo was the line for Tom Savini! I couldn’t believe no one was waiting to meet him. He seemed slightly annoyed but carried a conversation with me, I went to his panel on the last day, which made the whole trip! He received a standing ovation afterwards. It’s frustrating to see someone as iconic as Tom being overshadowed by Jon Bernthal (Shane on Walking Dead) and Danny Trejo at these conventions.

By: Andelas

Andelas — Sun, 05 May 2013 20:24:55 +0000

This is an old thread but wanted to weigh in in.
My girlfriend and I just returned from the Texas Frightmare Festival. Tom Savini was one of the guys I was most interested in seeing there. (As Norman Reedus almost caused a riot by cancelling!) Tom’s table was right next to Danny Trejo’s table and Trejo had a line as long as the eye could see the entire time. I actually stepped out of Trejo’s line and walked right to Tom since he had no one at his table.
He comes across as slightly annoyed with the whole affair but could not have been nicer to my girlfriend and I. He took pictures with each of us and I politely thanked him and we left.
I could see where he could come across as a jerk but I am glad that we had a very pleasant experience with him. I would rather see his work over any CGI crap any day!

By: kelli

kelli — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:19:06 +0000

I am going to texas frightmare weekend this yr. Im gonna get something signed by him hope it goes well. He was there last year but I didnt stop by his table.

By: Talia

Talia — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:03:21 +0000

Sometimes people just have bad days. I just saw Tom Savini at FanExpo in Vancouver today and he was a perfectly nice, normal guy. He even told a story about how he had accidentally insulted a fan and then spent the rest of the day looking for her to give her a free photo.

By: Psy-Ko

Psy-Ko — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:12:35 +0000

I was too scared to meet Savini when I saw him. He shot those dagger eyes at me and I put my $$ back in my pocket and scurried away. Maybe I’ll try again someday, maybe not.

What I really wanted to comment on though was the very first commenter, the one who wrote the book called “Found” Dude I just watched the movie a couple weeks ago and loved it! I think it’s the best movie I’ve seen in a good long while! I only got it on a recommendation from a friend so was pleasantly surprised. And even more surprised to see you as a commenter in this article I stumbled across on google while looking for something completely different!

By: RealityCheck

RealityCheck — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:20:59 +0000

Any of you fuckwits taken the time to revisit the opening of all your stories? The part where you specify that no one else is lining up to see him? Maybe he’s sick of only seeing one person at every convention who recognises him after having worked his balls off creating some of their favourite movies for most of his fucking life.

By: Terry Owen

Terry Owen — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 04:23:39 +0000

Dear Vino Veritas
Tom Savini did not write the Wikipedia page and to my knowledge, I am not sure he has ever read it. The Wikipedia page chronicles his career in the mainly horror genre as a special effects artist, stunt man, actor and director. I don’t believe the page leads anyone to believe anything but that he has had a long and ongoing career in horror films and is well respected in that field for his groundbreaking achievements. Is he a CGI Master? No. Is he currently working on Special FX for The Walking Dead? No. His protege’ Greg Nicotera is working on The Walking Dead. As any great master an teacher should do, Savini has passed the torch to a new generation that has built upon his work an other artist like him.
Tom Savini is 66 years old an in amazing shape, he has continued to stay in great physical condition and has always been very athletic. He is Italian an that “tan” is pretty much permanent. There is an advertisement for hair transplants on youtube featuring Savini and he admits – he is a client. I am sorry that i can’t comment on any steroid use, other than I highly doubt that you have a bases for that claim.
Your diatribe is highly entertaining, but if you can be so totally off on your appraisal of me, one wonders how much you really know about Tom Savini and your qualifications to judge his career. He was at the right place at the right time, and being good at what he did, word spread an his career took off.
Now, for Terry Owen, the dribbling, sour cabbage smelling fool, praising Savini and rattling that interwebez sword when “his” hero’s precious honor is sullied.
I am a women…I love taking showers and vanilla is my favorite fragrance. I do know Savini an I probably know more than he thinks i know an less than I think I know. I have taken the time to look at him as a real person an I found someone that i like. Not perfect, sort of a ham, but not an asshole an not a dick. I don’t put him on a pedestal, but consider him as human as we all are. All I am saying is…when you see him at a convention, say Hi, give him an opportunity to prove or disprove these allegations- but remember he is just him and he is not going to pretend to be someone else.
your opinion of the horror genre, I respect that. I am actually not a fan of slasher movies an gore fest.

By: Vino Veritas

Vino Veritas — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:56:36 +0000

CMU must be one hell of a deficient university if that’s what passes for literacy amongst their alumni. Your sycophantic Wikipedia page led me to believe you were a veritable scholar, Tom. But then, according to Wikipedia, you’re all things to all people! If you aren’t insecure about your achievements, why do you have to remind everyone IN CAPITALS about the films you’ve had bit parts in recently? Or why tell us about the famous and talented people you’ve made acquaintance with? You certainly like to pose in photos with actual stars, and seem to enjoy riding a kind of wave of association as much as you can without being too obvious. You were at the right place at the right time with the right people, and yet you didn’t conquer the world like you thought you would. So you make do with what little you actually have. Make it look as good as possible. The same way you get hair transplants, ‘roid up and get a tan. Getting the foot in the door is one thing, real longevity requires more. More than you’ve ever had. Which is why you’re a kitsch celebrity with a small cult following, either adolescent or adolescent in mind.
You are right, some people are jealous that you’ve reached the ‘heights’ in your career that you have. It’s because your work is pedestrian at best, and substandard when compared to others in the business. It pisses people off when this happens, as often as it does. They realize that social skills create the networks which grant success to mediocrity, and wonder how you could have those social skills when you seem like a gruff little baboon to them. They think you must have gleaned something out of those Dale Carnegie books that they overlooked! There are so many fans of your work who are hopelessly dreaming about finding a way out of the proverbial ‘shit’, and to them, you are one of them. An example of how you can get somewhere in the world with nothing but mediocrity, a basic drive to achieve something and some good connections to open the doors.
Me, I dislike you for other reasons. I despise your whole industry. You profit from polluting minds, filling them with misanthropy and a desire to be witnesses to suffering for no greater purpose than entertainment. Your work has very likely been in some part responsible for real acts of violence. You normalize cruelty and barbarism, eroding empathy and promoting desensitization to extreme violence and pathological behavior. Nothing you’ve done has even a speck of artistic merit and none of it shows even the slightest sense of responsibility. You are an assassin of beauty, human expression and a wrench in the works of social evolution.

Just go away, and take your slimy little career with you. Terry Owen too. Just so you have at least one dribbling, sour cabbage smelling fool around to praise you and do some grammatically incorrect interwebez sword rattling when his hero’s precious honor is sullied.

By: terry owen

terry owen — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:29:44 +0000

No, Savini…you are not a monster! I do know this man and he is a wonderful man. i would fight anyone that dare insult him in my presence…that would be a show. I encourage all to stop an say Hi to him at the conventions, that is why he is there.2012 was an amazing year for him an i believe 2013 might be even better.