Bloody Butcher Intestines Product Review

Here’s a perfect example of what a VERY good photographer can do to make a crappy product look good.  The two Bloody Butcher Intestines we purchased for the haunted house arrived yesterday from Skeleton Foundry, and boy, are we so unimpressed and disappointed with our purchase.  If it wasn’t going to cost us to ship them back to Skeleton Foundry, they’d have already been back on the truck and gone.  But as it so happens, we’ve already paid $11.00 for S&H the first time (non-refundable) and will most likely have to pay another $5 or $6 to send them back via Fed Ex.

We had read a review from another website on these and the guy just went on and on about how realistic they looked and felt.  Not sure how and why he would know what human intestines feel like (and really don’t care to find out either) but unless it’s a completely different item that he’s talking about, I think he may have some mental stability issues to work out.

The ONLY good thing to come out of this, is that now hubby and I have an idea on how to make our own.  Rolled up and crumpled strips of masking tape…..  Yup, that’s what we just spent $40 on…..  We’re not happy campers to say the least.  But, now that we know we can make our own and have them look just as good as the purchased ones, Home Depot better look out….  We’re coming for their tape!

If you’ve come across this blog because you were Googling the Bloody Butcher Intestines in hopes of finding a site that has them stocked, do yourself a favor and forget about ordering them online.  Invest instead some time in some how-to’s to make your own.  There are a few good one’s out there:

• http://www.ehow.com/how_4469313_make-fake-intestines.html
• http://www.instructables.com/id/Great-looking-disgusting-intestines-for-horror-f/
• http://www.budget101.com/halloweenpdf/ht11.htm

For an overall rating, I give these only 1 skull out of 5 and this is only because they are usable and we will use them, and that’s only because we’ve paid so much for them already.

Getting New Ideas From the Movies

    

      I have an abnormal obsession with horror movies. I LOVE THEM! I can watch blood and guts splatter across a screen all day and never tire of it. This was not always the case, however. When I was a little girl, I was plagued by horrible nightmares that would scare the bejesus out of me. I couldn't even watch movie trailers on TV or I'd get nightmares. Then about 7th or 8th grade, I discovered Stephen King. The first book of his I read was 'The Stand' followed by 'It' and I was hooked. From then on, the nightmares went away and I couldn't get enough of the scary movies. And there's no better time to watch the horror flicks than Halloween.

     This year for our garage haunt, we've taken some inspiration from the movies (see picture). Since I'm now unemployed, I have PLENTY of time to watch all the horror movies I can and plan what hideous things we're going to do this year. While scanning our local cable's FearNet movie directory (visit Fearnet.com to see if it's available in your area), I stumbled on 'Autopsy'. I read the description and it peaked my interest. The movie itself has a decent plot, however the amateur acting sort of killed it for me. On the other hand, the effects and gore were pretty good, good enough to keep me watching. And am I glad I did. The scene depicted above came onto the screen and I literally held my breath for a second. In that moment, I knew what our showpiece for the haunted house was going to be this year!

     As soon as the movie was over, I went online and started locating all the items we would need to recreate what we've now dubbed as the 'intestine mobile'. Finding the intestine props was easy enough. Both FrightCatalog.com and SkeletonFoundry.com carry the 'Bloody Butcher Intestines'. And as far as the rest of the severed body parts, both of these sites, as well as many others, carry arms, legs, hearts, brains, and various other pieces of fake flesh. The actual body on the table will be easy enough. You see, for the last few years, hubby and I have had either a half body (bottom half with legs) or a headless body on a table with guts and various removed organs and parts arranged around the table. We need to up the ante, so to speak....

     Hubby came home from work and I immediately turned on the TV and showed him the scene from the movie. He was just as excited as I was about it. First of all, neither one of us had seen anything like it before, anywhere. And because of the obscurity of the movie, we doubt very much that those visiting Halloween night will have seen it either. I'm kicking around the idea of rewarding the visitors a full-sized candy bar, if after they go through the house, they can correctly name the movie that it's based after. But I'm not really sure how morbid that may be in reality. (If anyone reads this, I'd love some feedback on this idea. Thanks!)

     We're still up in the air over the other props this year. The grand design has been set, however. We're going bigger this year then ever before. This year, the people (I'd say kids, but over half of the people we get to go through are adults - we've earned a pretty healthy reputation in our neighborhood for our haunts) will come through the front door of our actual house, down the hall to the garage entry, into the garage and through a short maze to the garage side door, down the side yard to the front gate and back outside. We're also going to be employing the help of a few of our neighbors' teens and I've started putting the word out at my college that we need a few more actors. This will be the biggest haunted house "production" we've staged yet. And I'm hoping like heck that we can pull it off!

     Once the actual building and setting up of the props gets underway, I will be posting pics and how-to's here. I've also talked to one of my instructors from school about setting up video this year. Since I run things out front of the house, I miss all the scares and funny moments inside house. I can hear the screams, of course, but I want to see them scream and get scared. So.... If the video works out, I'll also post those here after Halloween night, so stay tuned.....

Until the next post, happy reader..... God bless and have a wonderful day!