Changeling was talking about Savini's work in the Friday 13th thread but didn't want to go off topic, so I thought I'd take it one step further and make a thread for any awesome effects or gore gags.
Here's some pre-Savini gore from Dario Argento's Tenebrae. I love the mural that gets made in it!
Here's the best death in the worst final destination film:
This isn't really a horror film, but this is the first gore scene in a movie in a long time that I had a physical reaction to. If you haven't seen Green Room, you may want to watch it before watching this video (plus you should watch it because its fucking great).
14 Feb 2017, 03:39 AM
YellerDog
I am excited for this excellent thread.
Here's a shit-ass YouTube copy of the excellent laserdisc I was watching today:
Green Room looks intense. I need to check it out ! Dario Argento has some great moments in his film along with my boy Lucio Fulci:
14 Feb 2017, 03:25 PM
YellerDog
Lucio Fulci is rad as hell. This Zombie Vs Shark (vs Topless Lady omgnsfw) scene from ZOMBIE/ZOMBI 2 is amazing in that no one fucking drowned while they were filming it.
I can't find the scene so I must be remembering the wrong movie. I though it was from the Punisher (2004) when one of the characters is tortured at an ice rink for information. They hold him down and hit a ice puck straight into his teeth. It looked so real it made my skin crawl.
15 Feb 2017, 06:34 PM
YellerDog
War Zone?
15 Feb 2017, 06:39 PM
Some Stupid Japanese Name
I watched War Zone recently and dont remember that happening.
Maybe the game? (lol, though you did get to torture people for info).
15 Feb 2017, 06:46 PM
Changeling
I love pausing the video just at the moment before the head explosion to see what the dummy looks like they're blowing up. The Deadly friend one is pretty good. The one from the beyond is freaking kooky looking! The Maniac one is so so but the budget for that movie was pretty low so you can only do so much with what you got.
I never saw Deadly Friend but I will buy it if its available on Amazon. Looks great!
I've been trying to find the scene from Silentnight Deadly Night where Linnea Quigley gets impaled on Deer antlers but I can't find the uncut version that's on the Blu Ray. Sucks.
Little doc on Savini doing work on Maniac:
15 Feb 2017, 06:55 PM
Rumpy
For some reason I rememeber Thomas Jane in the scene when the guy is found (and the guy swears he didn't tell them anything). Oh, Tom Savini is in season 3 of the From Dusk Till Dawn series.
18 Feb 2017, 05:27 AM
Changeling
Another Fulci effect. The crying blood effect is neat. The dummy head is pure cheese!
18 Feb 2017, 08:40 AM
arjue
Thats pretty rad. I haven't watched much Fulci as Cat in The Brain turned me off (that is one of the worst movies I've ever seen).
I'm finding it surprisingly hard to find clips of rad shit from more obscure horror flicks like Ghost in The Machine and Society.
22 Feb 2017, 08:04 PM
Dolemite
The Thing is my all-time favorite horror movie, and it's contribution to the advancement of practical gore/monster effects really can't be stated enough. I always enjoyed the scene where one of the Things masquerades as a dude so perfectly that it even copies his heart condition and actually suffers a heart attack after a struggle. The Thing "victim" is rushed to the infirmary where it is subjected to shocks from a defibrillator by Dr. Copper, and suddenly grows a huge toothed maw in it's stomach and bites off the unfortunate doctor's arms in retaliation. While director John Carpenter doesn't really go into the set-up of the scene in great detail during his DVD commentary (other than stating that everything in the scene was done on-set in front of the camera with nothing added in post), others have revealed that the pulled-back shot of the arm-less doctor screaming while waving his bloody stumps around was actually a double-amputee actor wearing a mask, and it's pretty damn convincing. I fucking love this movie.
22 Feb 2017, 08:24 PM
Rumpy
Wasn't it that scene they almost killed themselves filming? The fire bar was too close to the body on the table and it caught fire with all sorts of toxins billowing off of it.
22 Feb 2017, 08:30 PM
Dolemite
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Originally Posted by Rumpy
Wasn't it that scene they almost killed themselves filming? The fire bar was too close to the body on the table and it caught fire with all sorts of toxins billowing off of it.
Something like that, yeah. I think Rob Bottin (the effects guy) tells a story on the DVD where the shit he used for the scene were so toxic that the resulting build-up of gas actually blew up the prop he had spent 24 hours setting up once the flames were lit, causing Carpenter to completely freak out on him.
Apparently Kurt Russell was also almost blown up in the scene where he chucks a stuck of dynamite at the Palmer Thing.
08 Mar 2017, 04:27 PM
Rumpy
This might be a good spot to not only highlight favorites but promising upcoming movies. Has anyone heard of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkmSNt4moNg
As you can see there are some glimpses of throw back The Fly and The Thing body effects and I hear that the movie relies predominantly on practical work.
