THE OMEGA MAN

Charlton Heston plays the government researcher behind the ultimate biological weapon, a deadly plague that has ravaged humanity. There are two groups of survivors: a dwindling band of immune humans and an infected, psychopathic mob of light-hating quasi-vampires. The infected are led by Mathias, a clever, charismatic man set on destroying the last remnants of the civilization that produced the plague. Heston has a vaccine--but he and the few remaining normals are outnumbered and outgunned. By day, he builds a makeshift version of the nuclear family (with Rosalind Cash as his afro-wearing, gun-toting little lady). They plan for the future while roaming freely through an empty urban landscape, taking what few pleasures life has left. By night, they defend themselves against the growing horde of plague victims.

THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN

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THE FIRST MARTIAN ON EARTH (they say)

The Great Race … waxed well-nigh omniscient, and turned to the task of setting up exchanges with the minds of other planets, and of exploring their pasts and futures. It sought likewise to fathom the past years and origin of that black, aeon-dead orb in far space whence its own mental heritage had come – for the mind of the Great Race was older than its bodily form. . . The beings of a dying elder world, wise with the ultimate secrets, had looked ahead for a new world and species wherein they might have long life; and had sent their minds en masse into that future race best adapted to house them – the cone-shaped beings that peopled our earth a billion years ago.
—H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time

The First Martian on Earth, 67 x 94 cm, Acrylic on paper

TOM SAVINI

Pittsburgh born actor/SFX wizard/stuntman/director who did a tour of duty as a combat cameraman in Vietnam, and who has since acquired a remarkable cult following amongst film fans, primarily due to his ground breaking SFX in the "splatter movie" explosion of the early 1980s. Along with fellow special make-up legends Dick Smith and Rob Bottin, Savini was one of the key SFX people behind the startling make-up & EFX seen in the fantasy / horror genre films of the 1980/90s. Savini was heavily influenced by the remarkable silent era actor Lon Chaney, and he sought to emulate the amazing theatrical make-up effects that were a hall mark of Chaney's career. In Savini's insightful book "Grande Illusions", he speaks of his early first attempts at applying prosthetics to his face using "spearmint gum", having misinterpreted that he was meant to actually use 'spirit gum'!

His first work was in low budget fare providing SFX & make up for independently made horror films such as Deranged (1974) and Martin (1977). However, he really caught the attention of horror buffs with his grisly effects in the cult George A. Romero directed zombie film Dawn of the Dead (1978), and then in the controversial slasher film Friday the 13th (1980), the movie generally identified as the kick start for the aforementioned "splatter movie" genre. Savini also contributed the incredible EFX & make-up to other splatter thrillers such as Maniac (1980), The Burning (1981), Creepshow (1982) and Romero's third 'Dead' film, Day of the Dead (1985) (for which he won a Saturn Award).

In 1990, Savini directed his feature film debut Night of the Living Dead (1990), the remake of the original zombie-classic.

Not content with just being behind the lens, Savini has appeared in dozens of films, and can be seen demonstrating his capable acting skills as 'Morgan, the Black Knight' in Knightriders (1981), as 'Blades', one of the biker gang members in Dawn of the Dead (1978), and as 'Sex Machine', another leather clad biker, but this time with a groin mounted gun in the wild vampire film From Dusk Till Dawn (1996).

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SCANNERS

David Cronenberg's Scanners

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