 The creation of F/X Blood, by Scott Bever
Making blood is fun and simple. It can be used with almost any character. I find it fun to use on my character “Dr. Blood E. Flesh”. It’s seems like the more blood you use, the more effective it can be with the people you are trying to impress, the customer. If you are a victim, with lots of blood, you are gross. If you are a vampire, with a little blood you are mysterious. If you just want to freak people out, just add some blood to a shirt or your forehead and see how quick it gets people’s attention. Now you can just imagine how much attention you will get dressing up as a victim, with a stake driven through your chest or abdominal cavity and screaming at the top of your lungs as the freaked out group of five to eight people walk or run by you in your bloody scene. Have you ever purchased fake blood or stage blood? It’s pretty expensive. Let’s take a look at the different options on making your own fake blood the way
you want it……………..
In making your batch of blood you have to ask yourself some questions, what kind of blood do I want? Is this going to be vascular (blood from surface veins, brighter red) or arterial blood (blood from arteries, darker or blue/purple blood)? Is it going to be thick? Thin? Will it splatter? Will it run smoothly? Will it be something that has started to dry and is starting to scab over. What flavor do you like? Chocolate? Mint? Peanut Butter? You can make whatever you want and you can make as much as you want. Just be sure to use it up within a couple of months as any blood made with corn syrup has a haunt season shelf life of about a month and a half. It will start to mold after that. When not in use it needs to be kept refrigerated! If you are going to be making blood that you use in your mouth, do not use Kodak photo flow in it. It would make you very sick and would ruin a night of scares and stares.
Here are a few simple types of quick fake blood recipes that can be made up at a moments notice for a gory weekend or bloody bathroom scene to freak out your spouse.
Peppermint Blood
• 2/3 cup corn syrup
• 1/3 cup water
• 5 tablespoons of corn starch
• 3 to 5 teaspoons of red food coloring
• 2 or 3 drops green or blue food coloring
• 1 drop peppermint extract
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Mix the corn starch into the water thoroughly. Add the corn syrup. Mix it well so clumping doesn’t occur. Add 3 teaspoons of red food coloring to the mixture first. Then add a couple drops of green or blue food coloring to take the pink edge off of the mixture. If the mixture seems to be to light add one to two more teaspoons of food coloring to the mixture. Add an extra drop of green or blue food coloring if the mixture gets to pink looking again. Once again it depends on what type of blood you want, vascular or arterial. Real blood is slightly on the dark red to reddish brown side when it is not fresh from the heart. Add one drop of peppermint extract if you like that flavor. The mixture tastes good and would work for using in a clear wine goblet during a vampire blood letting ceremony. |
Chocolate Lover’s Blood
This is a great mixture and a must for vampires or monsters who have acquired a taste for blood with a hint of chocolate in it. This mixture tastes great, looks like real blood, splatters like real blood and dries like real blood.
• ½ cup of water
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
• 3 or 4 tablespoon’s of corn syrup
• ½ to 1 teaspoons of red food coloring
• 2 drops of yellow or green food coloring |
Mix the cocoa powder thoroughly into the water before adding the other ingredients. You need to use warm water as this helps break down the cocoa powder into the water and helps prevent clumping. Add the rest of the ingredients and blend together well. Wait a few minutes for everything to settle a bit before continuing. If you have a layer of bubbles and chocolate scum on top after letting it settle, skim off the top with a spoon or tissue and pour into another container. The longer it sits, the more the cocoa tends to settle to the bottom, which oddly mimics the effect of real blood separating. |
If you splatter this mixture onto a white sheet or on lighter clothing, it makes a neat bloodstain after it dries. If you let this mixture run from your mouth, and let it dry, the blood darkens and cakes to the skin pretty much the way real blood does. This is probably the most realistic of the bloods I have made and it tastes devilishly delicious.
Gory Gooey Blood
• 2/3 cup Oriental Cherry Dipping sauce or strawberry preserves or jam from a jar
• 1/3 cup water
• ½ teaspoon red food coloring
• 2 or 3 drops of green or blue food coloring
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Mix the cherry sauce or strawberry preserves with the water. Mix thoroughly enough to thin down the sauce into a gooey consistency. Add food coloring. Stir again and let the sauce sit, preferably in a fridge. Remove when needed and spoon onto areas where gore effect is needed. The blood will drip in globs and works well with area’s of latex that have been made into pockets to hold gore of this type. Cover with extra latex for when you are working a cue line, then pick at it like it’s a sore. Yellow or green blood can be added for an added pussy effect (yellow or green blood can be made the same way the chocolate or mint blood was made except with straight yellow food coloring). |
Fake blood can be used many different ways. If you want to you can even add peanut butter. If you are sharing the bloody peanut butter, be sure to let the person that is using it know that it contains peanut oil. Some people are deathly allergic to peanut oil. If the color of the blood you are making is to light in color, add a drop or two of blue or green, but go easy as blue and green can swallow up the red pretty fast and will leave you with something other than bloody colors. Remember, you are looking for realism, not someone that has smeared red ink on their clothes! Have fun watching friends, neighbors and strangers freak out when the blood is flowing.
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