Please Welcome Troy McCombs
Halloween: the
time of the year when the leaves change color, die, fall to the ground, and
give off that distinct smell that foretells the coming of a new season.
Halloween: the time of year when we trick people and treat ourselves to buckets
of sugary, teeth-rotting candy. Halloween: the only time of the year when we
can dress up, become someone else, and try to scare the crap out of each other
for a good laugh.
I’ve always
been fond of this holiday. At an early age, I decorated my porch with
leaf-filled dummies, threw masks over the neck cavities, and angered my mom
when I doused everything in too much blood. I never used that cheap vampire
blood in the squeeze bottles, either. I used Stage Blood--it tastes like sugar
and looks very real. I purchased this out of special-effects catalogues before
there were many Halloween stores. None of it ever went to waste. I used it
excessively in short films and simple video clips to see how many people I
could gross out. When I was 15 or 16, and learned how to make it, I once filled
a garbage can with water and added LOTS of food coloring. My friends and I
would fill syringes with this stuff and squirt the gore everywhere.
Fun times.
HOW TO MAKE
STAGE BLOOD: Needs:
1. Clear Karo
Corn Syrup
2. Large bottle
of red food coloring
3. Small bottle
of blue food coloring
1. Pour the
Karo into a bowl.
2. Add as much
red as you can. Depending on how much corn syrup you use depends on the food
coloring. I always used to get just the quart-size bottle of Karo, a tiny drip
bottle of red and a larger pour-bottle of red (the one that comes packaged
alone).
3. After
saturating the Karo with red, mix well with a spoon. Then add blue--you’ll only
need a few drops of this. Without blue, the blood will look too red and
unrealistic.
4. Add blue and
mix until it looks right. You may have to dip your fingers in it and rub it to
check color. If it’s pink or blue or purple, add more red.
Remember: lots
of red, little blue.
Lastly, you can
add some water to thin it down, and, if you like, put some mouthwash in it to
give it taste.
HOW TO MAKE A
REALISTIC CUT USING SKIN WAX (nose putty)
1. Buy skin wax
putty--not the stuff with the cotton in it.
2. Roll into
worm, and apply to where you want it.
3. Smooth in
using Vaseline as a lubricant to keep it from sticking and gumming up.
Note: smoothing
is the longest process.
4. Next, get
something dull (a butter knife or such) and use the dull end to make a gash.
5. Gently apply
proper skin color to match your tone.
6. Then, just
add blood!
Have fun this
Halloween season! Just make sure you don’t scare anyone who’s too old! Pick out
a good costume, mask, and become somebody else!
Trick or Treat!
Ever since Troy’s third grade teacher made him write a short story
for class credit, He was hooked to the art of writing. Creating and designing
worlds that don't exist, and populating those worlds with interesting and
unusual characters, is what he does best.
If you read work by Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft (his favorite author),
then you've definitely come to the right place! He also has some coming-of-age
stories as well (The Graveyard; The Black Place Inside; The Music of 1997).
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