Horror School
At Tom Savini’s Special Make-Up Effects School in Pennsylvania, it’s not books the students are cracking open, but heads. A veteran of horror movies like “Friday the 13th,”Savini teaches students how to make the disgusting riveting. Matthew Cavnar finds out how the tradition of hand-made special effects is staying current in the digital era.
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