It's not a bald spot, it's a solar panel for Sex Machine

Tim Cavanaugh | September 16, 2005

Well, we've already had a Friday Fun Link but this may qualify as a Friday Unexpected Link:

All self-respecting horror movie fans revere Tom Savini, the Thomas Edison of special makeup effects, the man who made most of the great gore scenes of the last three decades possible, a bit player in many modern horror classics, and the star of at least one movie so bad its director issued an apology to audiences.

But did you know that Savini is also a hair-replacement pitch man? Just as none of us can hear the phrase "fresh breath" without envisioning George Kennedy and Mike Connors, we will now have to picture Tom Savini whenever "full, lustrous, manly hair" comes into the conversation. And why not? If anybody's a reliable judge of realistic-looking cosmetic effects, it's Savini.

Watch as the man called Blades or Sex Machine or Machete Zombie plugs the plugs at Nu/Hart Hair Labs, Inc.

Comments

|9.16.05 @ 4:23PM|#

he should give up and get a headblade.

www.headblade.com

CodeMonkeySteve|9.16.05 @ 4:37PM|#

Ug. Tried one, found it unwieldy and went back to cheap disposables.

|9.16.05 @ 4:52PM|#

Nothing beats that spray-on shit that Ron what's-his-face used to sell. That was good TV.

Timothy|9.16.05 @ 4:53PM|#

Ron Popeil. Inventor of spray hair, the Pocket Fisherman, and the Show Time Rotisserie (with Flavor Injectors)!

|9.16.05 @ 5:06PM|#

Did he do the "Inside-the-Egg Egg Beater", too?

|9.16.05 @ 5:09PM|#

While we're on the subject, anyone here have the inside skinny on Bosley? They talk a good game, I'm just wondering if they're worth the time...

dhex|9.16.05 @ 5:25PM|#

"Ug. Tried one, found it unwieldy and went back to cheap disposables."

really? i think it's so fucking awesome that if you fucked awesome until it was bald, this thing would fly out of your urethra.

the headslick, btw, is like shaving with a menthol cigarette - cool AND refreshing.

|9.16.05 @ 7:22PM|#

Horror movies have used too much latex in the past 20+ years. It used to be horror came from the stories, not the stretching blood-spattered latex. See Abbott & Costello Meet the Wolfman, for instance.

|9.16.05 @ 9:22PM|#

I see Tom Savini parlaying his greatest line of dialogue into a Mars & Mars sponsorship:

"I see you, chocolate man!"

|9.16.05 @ 9:44PM|#

And another transformation for Tom Savini: http://www.savini.com/transform.htm

|9.17.05 @ 2:47PM|#

After reading Tom Ramsey's apology for "Children of the Dead," I get the distinct impression that Russo and his buddies were just pulling a scam in the same vein as "The Producers."