Screwdriver meets windpipe.

CORPSE GRINDER · Post by **CORPSE GRINDER** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 2:25 am

A scene in my film requires (or not...I can rewrite it) a man to be stabbed in the throat with a screwdriver. It's intended to be sort of a long and savage stabbing, one where the assailent really works at killing this guy...not just a "one blow and he's down". I don't want multiple blows to the neck. Just one one where he really drives it in there (am I making this disturbing enough?)

I was thinking of a close-up shot where I could show the screwdriver inside the neck. I had an idea of painting a straw silver, and pressing it up against his neck with lots of blood being blown through it, offscreen. Just an idea.

I need lots of ideas on how to do shots, how to do some effects, and anything else you can offer...it's all appreciated.

....Oh, and of course, there will be plenty of over-the-top arterial blood spurtings to go around.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 4:23 am

a retractable screwdriver?

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 7:01 am

I was missing thses great questions.

Take a screw driver, and cut off most of the shaft, leaving only the handle. then get that pace putty from a theater store, I'll think up the name latter its past 1am. and pile that on the guys neck, and smoth it out with flash colored mackup. But first under the putty put a small hose atached to a blood pump. Then insert the cut screw driver into a hole by the hose. Make sure it stayes but can move a bit.

the shoot him attacking with a real screwdriver, then cut up close to him slowly killing the guy with the mackup on. Hope thats clear.

CORPSE GRINDER · Post by **CORPSE GRINDER** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 4:16 am

wait a second...where exactly would I fit this hose?

Also, for one of the shots, I am going to have the hacked off screwdriver pressed up against his neck, so it appears that the entire shaft is inside. And if the camera is in the right spot, then I can fill a small water balloon with blood and have it clenched in the same hand as the screwdriver handle. I can slowly let out the blood as it is pressed against his neck. The back of my hand should hide where the balloon is touching his neck so the audience only sees the blood running down from the supposed wound.

Yeah, I also miss writing posts like these. It really is a lot of fun coming up with these gruesome scenarios. And it's interesting seeing what everyone comes up with to solve them technically.

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 5:04 am

run it under his clothing, and then hide it under the puddy, so that we can't see it, or at an angle that the cam will not see.

CORPSE GRINDER · Post by **CORPSE GRINDER** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 5:03 pm

Oh okay. Thanks. I think we're gonna' shoot this scene this weekend. We have so much blood sitting in my garage that it's just rediculous. A lot of it's homemade. We have some of the little 4 oz tubes of the good store-bought stuff. And then I just discovered this "Mass Casualty Blood Powder". At the place I go, it's relatively cheap and when you mix it with 1 gallon of water, you get a really good looking blood. But what I did was replaced 1 quart of that gallon with corn syrup to get better viscosity and it looks and feels great.

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 5:09 pm

sweet, look forward to seeing it.

Riggzy · Post by **Riggzy** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 10:05 pm

anyone seen Final Destination where the woman gets a shard of glass in her neck when her monitor blows up? shes grasping her neck for the entire scene after that

anyway, yeah, this sounds like the classic "cut-the-thing-in-two-and-stick-it-to-something" method

sounds like a great scene. is the screwdriver passing through the jaguler (sorry spelling!) vein in the side of the neck? if it is you'll need LOADS of blood, its the vein that gets the blood to the brain

CORPSE GRINDER · Post by **CORPSE GRINDER** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 6:50 am

yeah, it was going to be the jugular. And don't worry...blood isn't a problem...I have it in copious amounts in my garage....all in different shades and viscosities.

We've also decided that to really try and get your lunch all over the TV screen, the blow to the neck will not be a fatal one. Instead, after enough gasping and gurgling from the victim, one of the baddies will put his pistol to the back of the victims head and pull the trigger. The victims mouth is duct-taped so the bullet will tear through skull and exit at about the mouth blowing brains, blood, teeth, skull fragments, and shreds of duct-taped out.

We've decided to use a foot-pump for the projection of "stuff" and we'll shoot it at a funny angle to hide this.

Now, some may worry about me having now read this post and perhaps even previous posts, but I assure you that all is well with me and it's all in the good challenge of making the unbelievable look believable.

...I'm also thinking about having a little Public Service Announcment at the end of our film.

2nd_Recon · Post by **2nd_Recon** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 2:07 pm

CORPSE GRINDER wrote:Now, some may worry about me having now read this post and perhaps even previous posts

And by seeing your avatar, taste in films, etc.

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 4:49 pm

I don't worry about you, I'm glad you come up with these crazy ideas, they let us think of strange things, and hell some great directors started with splat-stick movies, (Sam Ramie, Peter Jackson). I want to see this.