Comments on: Scavolini vs. Savini – Nightmare In a Damaged Brain

By: al ferrarri

al ferrarri — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:52:04 +0000

Les Lorraine spoke to me shortly before his death.I was friends with his wife and aquainted with his girlfriend.Although I believed for years that his death was an accident,new information has convinced me that he was murdered.His death had nothing to do with the movie and he didnt commit suicide.He was an amazing human and his family deserves justice.

By: Christian Sellers

Christian Sellers — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:19:39 +0000

When I interviewed Ed back in 2007 he said he worked a few days on the New York scenes, which were at the end of principal photography. As stated above, “Whilst there are photos placing Savini on set, French backs up this story that he was on hand purely as a consultant.”

By: Jerry D. Nuckolls, Jr.

Jerry D. Nuckolls, Jr. — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:52:44 +0000

I emailed Ed French about this(he is credited with the effects on imdb). He said that he only did post-production work on Nightmare, and declined to say who did the actual job, saying only that they did not want to be identified. Make of that what you will. The poster who mentioned The Spaghetti Nightmares interview seems to have put the nail in the coffin, I’m running off to orddr it now…..

By: glenn

glenn — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:38:18 +0000

Antifa savini denies that he had much to do with the film and says that Scavolini just used his name to dishonestly pull in punters at the expense of the people who actually did do the effects.
What is odd is that he denies being involved in the film at all when there are photographs of him on the set. my guess is that he doesn’t like the way the filmmakers gave him a screen credit he doesn’t think he earned. Whenever a film is made are there endless arguments about who did what. Writers and technical people tend to give credit where its due. Producers and sometimes directors tend to plump for who they think is the bigger selling point. Savini is a big cult figure so it’s likely his name was pumped up to sell the picture. He certainly isn’t trying to claim credit.

By: Antifa

Antifa — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:48:33 +0000

Oh, I see. Tom Savini leaves all the hard and tedious work of the prosthetics to other people and then gets all the credits.

What an arrogant douchebag.

By: T.B.

T.B. — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:18:32 +0000

who cares? Code Red just needs to get off their retarded asses and release the damn DVD already. they’re too busy releasing night of the dribbler though I guess

By: glenn

glenn — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:16:18 +0000

Credits are a contentious issue in film making. Savini probably just doesn’t want to be seen as accepting credit for a dead man’s work. Nightmare in a Damaged Brain is better than he claims, though.

By: nordicviking

nordicviking — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:09:11 +0000

A lot of Savinis films are much bigger pieces of shit. This was better than his remake of Night of the living dead. And dusk till dawn blowed the big hog.

By: Nick Cato

Nick Cato — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:11:02 +0000

I met Savini way back at a Fangoria convention in NY in 1985. He said that he was asked to come down and oversee the FX and that he offered some advice. That’s it. He also said he thought the FX crew was doing a good job. When NIGHTMARE placed his name on the original theater poster under “Special Effects by,” Savini sued and won.

I have an article on this film (as does director Romano Scavolini) in the forthcoming book titled BUTCHER KNIVES AND BODY COUNTS, due 10/10 from Dark Scribe Press. More info here: http://www.swingingmachetes.blogspot.com/

By: Tenebre81

Tenebre81 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:38:49 +0000

Ok. This is my take on the Nightmare story (as I’ve been sorta researching this film on my spare time for the last few years.) This is purely my speculation based on the bits and pieces of info I’ve put together from various sources (websites, forums, the “Spaghetti Nightmares” book, etc).

Tom DID work on the film. He didn’t create ALL of the effects, but he did a fair chunk of them. I also believe Scavolini when he says that Tom himself pumped the blood.

Please don’t ask me where I read this as I truly cannot remember, but rumour has it that Savini was sleeping with Lorraine’s wife/gf at the time. This caused a huge rift between the two of them. Apparently it was because of this that Lorraine killed himself. I think Savini was so stricken with guilt that he didn’t want to take full credit for anything to do with this film. I also believe that this is the “psychological issue” that Scavolini alluded towards. If this is the case, can you really blame Savini for wanting to distance himself from the film? In the end, he’s really not such a bad guy in this situation. He knows what he did was wrong (again, if this IS what happened). I’d probably react the same way whenever the film is brought up.

As I stated before, this is pure speculation on my part. But after piecing together everyone’s opinions/stories, this seems to be the most logical explaination to me.