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Post by GP on May 29, 2010 2:51:00 GMT -5
Savini's influences were Dick Smith and his time as a combat photographer in Vietnam. The influence debate could go on forever, kind of like this argument
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Post by GL on May 31, 2010 10:15:46 GMT -5
When you look at how much Friday the 13th (and its sequels) were influenced by Italian cinema (particularly Bava's Bay of Blood, which isn't acknowledged nearly enough for my taste), Friday the 13th is probably not the best example of Savini's importance to the genre to be honest. The argument that more people saw Friday the 13th doesn't really hold weight for me either, because obviously the filmmakers themselves were influenced by those films. That being said, Friday the 13th is dreadfully dull in every way except for the effects, so there's that. I'm not saying he is not great at what he does or he's not important to the genre, but there was lots done with special effects before Savini. He didn't get there on his own, and the influences on HIS work should be noted, and SEEN..... This is taken word-for-word right out of my mouth. Even though I say Friday is the best of the early 80s slashers, but everything else is word-for-word what I have said for a long time. I even had a thread on here about Bay of Blood being the first American slasher because of it's influences and tactics, I just wish I knew where it was.
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Post by HNT on Sept 30, 2010 18:10:21 GMT -5
For the record, what derailed this argument was not the championing of Savini, it was the deciison to focus on Friday, which was neither the first, the most influential, or the best of Savini's effects work. That is still probably split between DOTD '78, by far the most influential gore film of them all, and Day of the Dead, Savini's best technical work. If you pick the right films, nobody can really slight Savini.
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