Special effects film expert Tom Savini appeared on Dave's Late Night five times, each progressively pissing off Dave. 1. June 13, 1984 2. October 3, 1984 3. February 13, 1985 4. August 20, 1986 5. April 28, 1987
Haha Me: "I'm not wasting the effort on a click on all these 2-4 minute clip shows" Me right now: "Thank god, something long enough to warrant a click" xD
The whole video I´m like "where do I know this guy from?..." and half way through light shines in, he´s was one of the guys at the vampire bar in "From Dusk Till Dawn"
Tom Savini was an army photographer in the Vietnam War and saw all kind of real gore, death, and bodies while there. He said that was a big reason why he could make his stuff look so real as those images are burned into his brain. He also said that reproducing the real stuff he saw there in his fake models, confronting the trauma in that way, was very therapeutic for him.
He really is an artist. Watching these old Letterman videos and seeing his designs -- especially for the monsters -- I thought "That's art." He has to be an artist first to design these creatures and effects and bring them into the world, and he's got to be a natural engineer to bring them to life with nothing more than springs and cables (and, yeah, tubes for the fake blood).
Tom Savini came to my school during the mid-1980s (Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh), he wired up our SCHOOL PRINCIPAL with a squib and shot him during an assembly for the whole school. It was nuts. He had a white jumpsuit wired with a squib and had the principal put it on, made it look like the principal was shot in the chest. Outrageous in retrospect, we enjoyed the demo immensely!
Your principal sounds like a cool and funny guy. Today nobody would try that because some kid would wet their pants and go crying to mommy about how gun violence is being promoted
I'll take 1 to 6 over 0 to 6 any day. I can't remember the last night time talk show guest that wasn't a dull actor just doing a press release plug for their latest thing.
I remember when they wouldn't talk politics Johnny Carson said it would be the death of late night shows when they did it..I don't remember what year it was but they had a very interesting article about David Letterman when he basically lost his way and became unlikable not only to the audience but to his staff.I love the first 10 years of David Letterman but not so much when he moved to CBS
The guy is 73 now and still going strong. He recently created and produced the masks for Slipknot’s “We Are Not Your Kind” album and subsequent tour cycles.
So, somewhere in India, there's a guy saying "my grandma was in Friday the 13th, Creepshow, Dracula and 265 other horror flicks" and he's technically correct...
Don't donate your body to science, or donate on your license. No joke, u litterally go into a store, whole body is expensive depending on condition, u can buy parts sent to your home too. Fingers are cheap . 100 bucks. You maybe will help a student at college but most likely your parted out
@@breakingames7772 Uh...sorry, BG, but I call bullshit on your outrageous, silly, nonsense!! C'mon man, a hundo for a finger?!? Get the fuck outta here! Fake news brobro, fake news.
This is a great example of why Late Nigh With David Letterman was such a great show. Dave had cult and underground guests on that no other shows cared about. People like Tom Savini, Howard Stern, Andy Kaufman, Hunter Thompson and other assorted maniacs. Dave's Late Night was like a secret club for insomniacs and oddballs to come together and rejoice.
Tom Savini is the man I have the utmost respect for. Actor - director - stuntman - special effects master & make-up artist - author - editor - U.S.ARMY Veteran - the man has literally done it All. The true Master of Horror. Thank you for inspiring & entertaining so many... especially me.
I saw Tom at the London Film and Comic Con 2008, he walked through the Cosplay area, strode up to a guy dressed as Indiana Jones and asked him if it was a real Bull-Whip on his belt? The fella didn't know so Tom said "let's see", cleared an area around him and then proceeds to demonstrate his Whip skills to everyone in the Cosplay area, after a few minutes he hands it back to the Indy guy and says " yes, it's a real Bull-Whip"! The guys jaw was on the floor!!! Priceless!! 🤯
@@gongoozleriam9783it was an hour show with different guests and segments, not to mention commercial breaks. Each guest was given a certain amount of time and David had to push the program along.
Yeah,it was a different time. Back in the early/middle 80s many shows would do stuff like this but rarely had any ballyhoo since back then if you liked horror you were a future serial killer or Satanist. I could literally do a documentary on those times and my growing up outside Marion,Ohio and the differences of the times.
@@robertblowstein7291 It depends on which way you look at it. I mean in the 80s, not every 10-year-old could just find actual videos of being people tortured online within a few clicks and worse.
I remember staying up late when I was 10yrs old to watch Tom’s first appearance on this show. I had just recently bought his book and wanted to eventually become a SPFX makeup artist when I grew up. With the direction of his great book Bizarro I was constantly being suspended from school for playing practical jokes on the squeamish girls and the overbearing teachers. Tom Savini has always been my idol along with Dick Smith and Rick Baker. I did eventually grow up to work in movies as a SPFX makeup artist but now I work in the legal Cannabis industry as a master gardener. I still have lots of fun on Halloween👻!!!
Well, there's a real neuroses there with Dave, and squibs actually DO hurt, and his hand DID actually get burned, and do you really want to take the risk of someone firing ANY pistol at you on camera? He was genuinely perturbed at times. Was a bit uncomfortable at times, but I'd rather see it than not.
I think people who say this don't understand that there's plenty of great CG work that you never notice, and also practical effects are definitely not dead. There are some things that are better practical, some better CG, and some a combination. The Walking Dead uses both a lot for many different effects
cruiserweight190 unfortunately back in the 1970s and 1980s, service in Vietnam wasn't something veterans mentioned. The American public was fooled into thinking every Vietnam veteran was crazy or a drug addict through the media, movies and television. As a kid, I looked up to the men who had served overseas, but most people acted like Vietnam was a black eye for the country. It was awful, the veterans never got the homecoming they deserved.
@@ΜΟΛΩΝΛΑΒΕ-μ9β the war was a black eye, but no reason to blame the vets. I don't really understand volunteering for such a war though, if that's what he did.
yup saw an interview where he said he was saved by a raccoon he had to guard weapon barracks where he heard a noise and a trap was set to notify that the enemy was coming he freaked out started shooting causing everyone to shoot only to find out it was a raccoon setting it off he was pulled off guard duty the very next day the barracks was attacked killed everyone in it he was literally saved by a raccoon
Letterman continuously interrupts him and rushes him along, just concerned when the sponsors will pay for his show, because that's what pays his bills, not his guests. "We've got to go to a commercial break." is Letterman's famous last words. Storm Waver, your comment looks even more stupid than before, yes?
@Ganu Manel I absolutely agree. If I were Tom I wouldn't have enjoyed Letterman much either. Letterman much like most of the world didn't understand Tom. Glad we do though.
I get Letterman was trying to be a "funny host". But I wanted to grab him and tell him DUDE STOP MOVING! when Tom was applying special effects to him. Like if anything happened to him, he should blame himself, not Tom. Cuz he's fidgeting worse than a kid would be. But for the sake of the vid, great show!!
This is the best! I really needed this. I remembered watching these episode as little kid at sleep overs. These two crack me up! Tom is such a genuine guy.
Tom is still a master of his craft. Brilliant artist. He served in Vietnam during the war and saw some really nasty things, that's why a lot of his effects look so realistic.
Brian Jones with the limited resources they had back then, sure, they were in fact masters. But being from my era, I see Greg and Tom as masters of the craft as well. And knowing they were taught by Baker and co. I have much respect for them guys.
@@bones22j Don't get me wrong, I like Nicotero and Savini as well, but they came up under some of the greats.... Savini came up under Dick Smith, from Exorcist fame. They both do great work, but I never felt they did creature work as well as Winston, Baker and Bottin. They are all great artists though.
Ah, he pays hommage to Dick Smith, the godfather of all this. You know Dick Smith from The Exorcist. Oddly, he himself thought his best work in that film was the makeup of Father Merrin.
When I first saw it I didn't know any better, I just assumed Max Von Sydow was an old dude at the time. He was actually 44. Incredible work. We've all seen age make up since then and until very very recently most of it really pales in comparison.
I just read an article in the local newspaper a week ago about Greg Nicotero reviving Stephen King's "Creepshow" on Shudder, which is apparently AMC's streaming service. The movie "Creepshow" was shot in Pittsburgh, well parts of it anyway, and Nicotero graduated from a high school there, and Tom Savini is from there too. It was weird to see Tom in the Feb. 1985 appearance say "This is a model of one of the actors in Day of the Dead, Greg Nicotero" when I was just reading about them.
I searched for Carolina Biological Supply! I had a chance to work for Stan Winston Studios in my 20s but I couldn't get a truck so I couldn't get the job. I'm really happy with how my life turned out but I wish I could have seen what path I could have followed if I did have that truck!
It is so nice to see Tom Savini early in his career. He is so excited for the art of his work. Dave comes across as a whiny,. but the last bit when Dave is shot in the head is hilarious! Tom is such a humourous gentle man. Thank you Tom, for your life's work. Thanks whomever put this video together!
So more than "some" sucked or less? Or are you implying that some TV does suck now? Or are you just saying that this episode didn't suck? Your comment makes me feel uncomfortable because of how vaguely you phrased it.
Yup, when people like Tom had to use their imaginations, and have a ton of fun, coming up with new ways to scare the shit out of us. And all that effort and fun showed through in the final film.
I definitely have a soft spot for practical effects and for the people who created them. At the same time though I acknowledge that a good use of CGI has made it possible to create movies like the Lord of the Rings trilogy which would have been nearly impossible to bring to life using just practical effects.
Here's the thing. People think CGI is bad because all they SEE is bad CGI. The truth is, CGI is used everywhere, even in movies you wouldn't ever think. Why? Because when CGI is effective you don't actually see it. For example, when there are big crowds of people, they're all simulated digitally, or when you see helicopters in the air, all CGI. Even when there's chase scenes with cars it's usually all CG. People tend to crap on computer effects, but they don't realize it's everywhere in plain sight. It's an effective tool, when used right.
It may be a more peaceful world now but we're all miserable with the politics, lunatics, Left v. Right BS, and mind control. Believe it or not, that sh1t aint ever going away. But those 80s really were good days to live in, what with the culture, and good stuff back then. The music and clothes back then were great and we were lucky. Who wants to turn on the TV or Radio these days...
I remember watching tales from the dark side when I was a around 8-9 years old and that Lizzy thing scared me shitless for weeks after watching it. Thought it was hiding under the bed or in my room somewhere 😂
I never realized David Letterman had Tom Savini on his show so many times. It seems like Letterman was secretly a huge Horror fan. He looks and sounds like a kid around 7:48.
I love how he said "they all come from India" about the skeleton which is also mentioned in Return of the Living Dead when Frank suggested they must have skeleton farms.
@@avidnongetit8710 sweet. I'll have to check that out. Such a gem. So unique and on par with ED2 for me. I'm sure it's probably in the doc, but I heard this is the first film with zombies groaning about "brains".
Maybe it's my collectable OCD , but what made me squirm the most was how heavy handed David Letterman seemed with Tom's excellent and iconic props. If Tom Savini was cool with it though maybe I should be too.
Loved this. Tom Savini is legendary in the S/FX biz so this was a real treat. Dave was kind of wimpy near the end there but I like to think it was partly for the laughs. I wish he would have had Tom Savini on more times though but I guess he was truly annoyed after that last appearance. Side note: I read an article about you Don. Until I read the article I was convinced "Don Giller" was actually a whole team of people churning these compilations out. Thanks for all your hard work over the years. Lots of us really appreciate it.
18.11....God, I remember seeing 'Lizzie' on 'Tales From The Dark Side' as a kid years ago. Scared the crap out of me. I was having nightmares for weeks afterwards. Lol! Thanks Tom!
14:15 - holy shit: 1. I never would have thought they use _real_ skeletons 2. I thought the "skeletons from India" notion was just something they came up with for "Return of the Living Dead"
He was also in the Twisted Sister video for Be Cruel to Your Skool. He played a teacher sitting in the teacher lounge, and asked Bobcat Goldthwait what he was listening to
"Creepshow" was not only brilliant, but hilarious too, especially the "they're creeping up on you" and "the lonesome death of Gordie Verill". Damn bugs lol. I'm a kid of the 80s, a huge horror fan, and I love the Friday 13th franchise. Savini is a genius, good actor too!
My favorite part of the clip is when they first interact and Letterman says "it's nice to see ya", essentially telling me that two of my favorite people on the planet go back further than 1984.
Imagine a world, where there's no internet or advance videogames, just magazines, low end computers or consoles and tv. Imagine being a 10 year old kid that saw on the tv guide that tom savini was going to be on letterman show and you'll have to wait for days until it happens, but when it does, omg, 20 minutes of pure magic and joy. The next day, you talk to your best friends at school and comment on what you saw last night. The 80s, what a beautiful time to be a kid. Just magical.
Tom got a LOT of his inspiration as a Combat Photographer in Vietnam. He saw a lot of gruesome stuff and used that the make his works as realistic as he could.
