Tom Savini's house is filled with every nightmarish horror prop you can imagine...and two friendly cats
For roughly 50 years now, renowned effects artist, stunt person, actor, and director Tom Savini has helped create some of the most iconic horror imagery in our popular culture. From Dawn Of The Dead and Day Of The Dead to Friday The 13th and Creepshow, Savini has played a crucial role in defining the texture of the modern horror film. It’s only appropriate, then, that on a tour of his house with YouTube channel Grimmlifecollective, Savini shows off one of the world’s most impressive collections of horror props and memorabilia, gathered throughout his career—and his two adorable, decidedly un-scary cats named Max and Bruce.
After a visit to his school—Tom Savini’s Special Make-Up Effects Program—to see how the next generation of gore experts are being trained, the channel’s hosts head to Savini’s home for a look at what he surrounds himself with on a daily basis. As might be expected, his Pennsylvania house (an ornate cross and two gargoyles on the roof, naturally) is stuffed with transforming holographic portraits, tons of vintage movie posters, statues of vampires and Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein’s monster, and a dimly-lit bedroom with facehuggers in jars.