How To Make Fake Blood

Posted Nov 17th 2005 1:10PM by Zadi Diaz
Filed under: The Shoot, How-tos

Ever wonder how to make fake real-looking blood? No, you don't squirt ketchup all over yourself.

Simple ingredients include:

white corn syrup
red food coloring
water

Add blue food coloring to darken, and whole milk to make it less transparent.

Recipe I think is best:

White corn syrup
Red food coloring
Corn starch
Water (mix and heat until desired thickness)
Add something brown, like chocolate, to darken.

Hey, you can also eat that recipe (and add vodka if you want to get crazy), but we won't get into that! For black and white video/film just use chocolate syrup.

To make into a wound, use pieces of tissue, add some vaseline, and place into your masterpiece of rawness.

Oh, you can also add a diluted fusion of blood into a squirt bottle and spray it on your actor for that "splattered" look. Or you can fill a small baby powder container for more splatter gore.

Reader Comments

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1. are you gay? that would not taste very good.

Posted at 2:04PM on Nov 23rd 2005 by kara

2. Hi Kara:
No not gay, but I am very lame and not so funny!

You're right, it probably wouldn't taste very good. If you have your own blood recipe version post it here, the more versions the better!

Posted at 2:10PM on Nov 23rd 2005 by Zadi

3. I'm thinking of a series of still shots with blood. How's the surface tension on this one? If you've ever bled into the sink, you know real blood drop almost explodes when it touches the sink, spraying itself all around. The syrup sounds kinda syrupy so hey... How about adding a surface tension killing agent like the one used for drying the films? Or a detergent, but I'd really hate having to deal with bubbles... umm.. perhaps adding some 100% alcohol would help.

Posted at 2:20PM on Dec 9th 2005 by karusel

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