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To make entrails takes very few supplies. Your shopping list looks like this.
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ky could get pretty expensive. why not use gelatin or karo? much cheaper and tastes good (if you happen to be doing a zombie flick which requires people to chew intestines).
Condoms, KY and fake blood. Great way to freak out your cashier.
Or you could just use some real entrails for christsakes.
c'mon people... how hard is it?
they really aren't that hard to come by and they look soooo much better.
The only good app for the above "how to" would be Vegan Halloween parties.
I have a much more fun use for at least three of those ingredients.
HOWTO get entrails:
1. Find a butcher
2. Ask him for entrails
3. Receive entrails
Once upon a time people used to make condoms of entrails, and now they're making entrails of condoms.
Strange days indeed.
Condoms + multiple bottles of KY? There must be a cheaper and better way to do this. Maybe with sausage casing and jello?
Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
@ # 5 - except, those rot. Mary needs them for stage work. You can't have rotting props. It's bad for ticket sales.
Lovely.
Joey@~2: My thoughts exactly.
Anon@~5 & Zippy@~8: *hands crown of teh internets for the day over to you both and steps down quietly*
You could substitute guar gum for the KY
and it would be a lot cheaper. Put a spoon full
of quar gum in glass of water and you get a glass
of thick goo. It might be prone to spoilage then.
Maybe you could add a preservative.
KY entrails wouldn't spoil. It might be worth it if they need to last through the run of a play or
something.
OK, here are recipies for two kinds of slime:
http://guidezone.e-guiding.com/polymer2.htm
Theres another one for flubber made from metamucil
here:
http://bizarrelabs.com/slime.htm
I needz me sum flubberz.
Here's some intestines I made to enhance my zombietude in 2005. Plastic wrap, paper towels, beet juice, thread and tape. Not as impressive as the condoms and KY, but cheap, good enough, chewable and not stinky.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gammablablog/57667255/
I made fake intestines for a Halloween project using condoms, cooked elbow macaroni, food coloring and corn starch. Super cheap (I used some freebie condoms even) and they looked damn good. Of course these just had to be generically intestinal, not specific organs or anything...
http://www.instructables.com/id/Great-looking-disgusting-intestines-for-horror-f/
I'm shocked no-one has posted this which is far better.
Putting on my prop-maker hat:
KY doesn't rot for a very long time, so it's a common choice. Also, it's got a pretty unique consistency, which isn't easy to replicate. (You could probably whip up something similar, but I can probably go to the drugstore, buy a case of KY and be back before you even have a decent formula worked out. Time=$$$)
Condoms are handy because they are a standard size, readily available, and don't break easily (most of the time!)
Fake blood is easy to make yourself though, using Karo syrup and food coloring. Add a touch of blue dish soap for a richer color and less staining (red food dye is tenacious!). I use Dawn but the brand is unimportant.
My shopping list always looks like that!
This is probably the second best use for condoms I've ever seen. The first of cause being blowing them up like a balloon and throwing it around like a beach ball in a large crowd (actually happens quite a bit at school assemblies).
* Unlubricated condoms
* KY Jelly
* Food coloring
* Press and Seal wrap
* Fake blood
Throw in some jumper cables and a case of rubber bands, my weekend will be set...
As a stage prop, which needs to be used over and over, this actually makes a whole lot of sense.
As others have pointed out, there's cheaper and messier ways to do this for one day of film/video shooting.
@mikep 16: Thanks for the blue dish soap tip! That's a lot more clever than just drops of blue food coloring! I've never heard that one before.
I'll leave you with Lloyd Kaufman's strategy for a crushed head: "Hollow out a cantaloupe. Fill with hamburger, cranberry sauce, and fake blood. Top with a wig and crush till you can't crush no more."
Actually I believe Wes Craven used a similar technique for the entrails in Last House on the Left. (great horror/suspense movie, although I probably wouldn't want to see it more than once) I believe they went with condoms filled with peanut butter and jelly, to get a more... realistic? texture.
It definitely looked the part on screen. (Check out 4:14 of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHmvw7hTLSE)
So yeah. Cheaper than KY, probably won't rot, (they're preserves after all) and used by the professionals. Win?
WHYWOULDYOUWANTTO Make entrails?
As the prop makers have guessed, this was for stage and so I needed something that would last through the run. It also got dropped from a height, so I wanted a splatting sound without the risk of rupture or spatter.
@16 I usually go with green food dish soap but I'll have to try blue next time. May I suggest adding a little bit of cocoa powder to your blood for deepening the color? Add more and it also has the benefit of clumping as it dries which gives a nice clotting effect.
By the way, have you tried ReelBlood? I don't know what they use, but it dries thoroughly without any stickiness and yet stays totally wet in appearance. It also cleans out of costumes better than any formula I've tried to make. Unless a show is on a really tight budget, I just buy that now.