Gore effects

Tom Savini is the mastermind behind the gore effects in Friday the 13th (1980). He served as a photographer in Vietmnam and so when he produced gore for a film, he wanted the same look as the real gore that he saw all those years ago, never happy unless the effect looked real and so the amazing effects of the best Friday the 13th Films were produced by Tom Savini.


Tom Savini prepares Annie for her death at the hands of Pamela Voorhees in Friday the 13th, where she gets her throat cut after a brief chase through some woods near Crystal Lake.

By far the best Friday the 13th is Part 4 - The Final Chapter. The reasons that this film is so good is because of the violence and realistic gore effects provided by Tom Savini. From the Banana woman getting a machete shoved through her neck to Jimbo getting a hachet driven into his face, Savini made sure that the effects were as good and realistic as they could.


Savini demonstrating Tommy’s ‘creature’ from his collection of horror effects.

Among Savini’s other movies are Dawn of the Dead (1979), Creepshow (1982), Day of the Dead (1985), Creepshow 2 (1986), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986), Night of The Living Dead (1990)



This is the mask that Kane Hodder had to wear on part 7, along with the bulky body suit.