

In an era before CGI, it was Savini's job to figure out how to make Miller's gruesome death scenes look real, and from an axe directly to the face of a hapless teen to an arrow plunged through the throat of a young Kevin Bacon, he delivered.Īccording to Cunningham, Savini obsessed endlessly over how to accomplish Mrs. Cunningham and writer Victor Miller, who had essentially set out to rip off Halloween with a lot more gore.

Romero's Martin and Dawn of the Dead, Savini brought his blood-soaked set pieces to the production at the insistence of producer Sean S. The franchises' styles mesh well, there are a couple of genuinely creepy moments amidst the carnage, and finally, somebody wonders what that goalie was so pissed about.Īfter honing his craft on George A. The film works far better than it has any right to after spending an eternity in development hell and causing a good-sized flap over the decision to recast Hodder with stunt man Ken Kirzinger (who, for the record, acquits himself nicely). But once Jason starts killing, it's pretty tough to get him to stop, so he must be maneuvered into a showdown before he kills off all of Freddy's potential victims. He takes the questionable measure of freeing Jason Voorhees from hell and turning him loose on his old Elm Street stomping grounds in the hopes that the fresh wave of gruesome murders will rekindle the legend of Freddy (it helps if you don't question this logic too much). A Nightmare On Elm Street's Freddy Krueger (breaking the fourth wall liberally) is bummed that his memory is dying out, making it harder for him to invade the dreams of children.
