Author Topic: Convincing STAB effect MaulRat
posted 06-06-1999 05:41 AM
If any one has seen scream 2 (I'm sure you all have ) At the beggining during the movie stab when heather grahma gets stabbed you can purposly see the end of the knife fold, now i tried to machine one but it folded on impact and looked pants, (UK for S***) Is there any way of making one with a trigger or button that makes the end fold up, also how can it be done one a wooden Stake?.

Thanks

MaulRat
Staveleigh.uk@virgin.net

gore master
posted 06-06-1999 11:53 AM
If it isn't going to be too deep you could take sheet metal, wrap it around the person's chest, stomach, and sheets around the person's shoulders. Attach styrofoam to the place that will be stabed(if it is too bulky and sticks out you can add more styrofoam around or take a piece large enough to cover the entire chest and stomach and cut the sides to look like the curves of a human body). Attach a thin blood pack. Just fill a sandwhich bag part way with blood and tape it firmly against the foam. That way it will be thin against the foam and will not be as bulky, but will still bleed. Then precut a slit in the clothing. Take a knife, dull it down and round the edges. That way it won't be quite as dangerous. On action stab into the foam/blood pack area. Before the board idiots( I know you are trying to make it safe but really there isn't much wrong with this effect) let me point out this trick is done by many professionals and was even used in "the texas chainsaw massacre". If they can use a chainsaw that hasn't been dulled or anything and use it in place of the knife, This shouldn't be too dangerous.

If it is deeper, you can make a cast of the knife. Take some casting resign or other material and fill the mold up to the part where you want the blade to disapear. Coat that with a release. Then coat the remaing INSIDE EDGES with resign. That way the other part of the knife is hollow. Then push clay down into the remaining blade part and into some of the handle. Put less in the handle so it will be stronger. After everything is dried and you take apart the molds try and put the knife tip into the hollow blade part.
grind down some of the edges of the tip if you have to. When it's in you should be able to stabe it against something hard(say a piece of sheet metal) and it will colapse into the blade.

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