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post #1 of 11
1/23/08 at 8:34pm
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Any gorehounds out there know how to make blood? McGuyver ideas for gore, prosthetics? Or a website where I can find this sort of stuff?

Practical effects on no budget.
Tips pls?
We're having someone get a limb cut off and I was wondering how to make it seem like the artery is bleeding out? And also gunshot wounds....
Any tips or nods in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
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post #2 of 11
1/23/08 at 8:37pm
http://filmmaking.stormforcepictures...efakeblood.php

Basically, syrup or some thick medium and coloring.
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post #3 of 11
1/23/08 at 9:51pm
The blood we used for RUN was actually a mixture of water, hand soap, Hershey's Chocolate Syrup and red dye. It didn't look like blood at first, but on camera it had a great look and feel to it, and what's more is because of the soap you'd get "bubbles", as it were, and it registered great.



I've also gone the good ol'corn syrup and food coloring (red, blue and root beer extract) route when I was working on Long Pig:

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post #4 of 11
1/24/08 at 9:52am
For splurty blood I actually found a brand of extra think black current concentrate that worked great and was completely safe to spit up, and splat around the eyes. Actually since filming wrapped ages ago I had 3 bottles off the stuff that had expired so I filled up the bath with water and fake blood, just because I could. Now our drain smells funny.
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post #5 of 11
1/24/08 at 8:03pm
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is this hershey syrup/red dye/soap concoction too thick to blow out of a tube? and does it splat nice?
EDIT: any idea on what to use in order to make blood continuously come out of a cut limb? Like in Kill Bill for example.
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post #6 of 11
1/24/08 at 9:24pm
I use clear Karo, chocolate syrup and red food coloring. We used it for our zombie movie and it looked great. We used an air hose and it sprayed well too.

The first pic shows a guy spurting blood out of his mouth as he dies and it looks pretty damn cool although you can't really tell with the still.

The other two are just examples of various stages of gore.



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post #7 of 11
1/25/08 at 5:17pm
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Originally Posted by cyberwaste View Post
is this hershey syrup/red dye/soap concoction too thick to blow out of a tube? and does it splat nice?
EDIT: any idea on what to use in order to make blood continuously come out of a cut limb? Like in Kill Bill for example.
Corn syrup, red dye and (warm) water to get the consistency you want and go to town. We used it on everything from open wounds to a scene involving a zombie head, a spinning bicycle tire and lots of spurting blood. A huge reservoir is needed to get flowing blood going properly and for a long time.
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post #8 of 11
1/26/08 at 6:37am
I used a clean weed killer hand pump thing like this www.homeright.com/product/C800575_fl.jpg I removed the metal nossle part and replaced it with the a hospital drip line. It more oozed than gushed, but I got a lot of use out of it.
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post #9 of 11
1/28/08 at 3:33am
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For splurty blood I actually found a brand of extra think black current concentrate that worked great and was completely safe to spit up, and splat around the eyes.
Can you elaborate? I'm about to do a student film where I need blood to be splattered all over my two characters faces and don't want to burn somebody's eyes out.

Another question... In this same project, I need a guy to accidentally cut himself in half(don't ask). I'm thinking about renting a dummy and all that, but I want to throw in a tight shot of the chainsaw cutting through the vertical body, complete with blood flow.

Any ideas? I probably wont be able to use a working chainsaw, so I'm thinking a precut..... something.... could work... ... if it spurts blood..... sigh
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post #10 of 11
1/28/08 at 6:23pm
If you need brains, I got somethin' simple. Get yourself some pink fiberglass insulation, tear it into the chunks of the size and shape you need, and simply soak it in fake blood (party store-bought blood works just as well for this). It looks great provided it's wet enough, but be warned people touching it could get rashes. I once had a girl with the stuff strewn across her face for a couple hours and she had to duck out to the hospital when the rashes suddenly started appearing.
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post #11 of 11
1/28/08 at 10:40pm
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Can you elaborate? I'm about to do a student film where I need blood to be splattered all over my two characters faces and don't want to burn somebody's eyes out.
http://www.barkers.co.nz/index.cfm/P....html?pidVal=5

I have no idea which American brand is good, most I find are too watery to work, might have to buy a few and see, or just thicken it yourelf.

While it wont damge eyes, it'll still sting if it gets in there.
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