Special Effects

Add some paint, an old t-shirt, and a table with holes cut into it and you get yourself a disturbing bit of Halloween trickery. Otherwise known as the perfect place to put the candy bowl.

The key to faking an eviscerated torso is in the dangling internal organs. As you can see here, I’ve used a lot of latex in order to get various tubes and things embedded into the latex. When it tries you end up with arteries and intestines.

The next step is to coat the torso in a layer of fake skin. I prefer applying liquid latex to the mold myself, but the foam is like a sponge so to get it to work I first wrap the torso in plastic wrap. In latter years I learned to use latex dies to get a flesh tone latex color.

In order to get the Torso cleaned up enough to pas for a torso, I took a basic hacksaw blade and cut the extra chunks off. This is an incredible mess. Little chunks of plastic foam the size of sand gets all over the place.

The best part about a duct tape mold is that you get to destroy it. This is the foam torso I had left after the mold was done. Doesn't look like a torso yet, but give it time.

I used too much and it ended up breaking the mold in a few places. I was happy it didn't split the plastic bag lining or it would have been a very nasty mess.

Two part polyurethane is a fun little chemical. It mixes and about 20 seconds later it swells up and gets real hot. A few hours latter it turns solid. It is also rather nasty stuff. It tends to stick to or burn away all sorts of stuff. Thus the big gloves. It doesn’t smell great either.

This was the first mold I made building a fake eviscerated torso. It’s a combination of Duct Tape, an old t-shirt, and cardboard. The tube in the middle is to make sure there is an open passage in the final mold.