666 DIY Horror Filmmaking Tutorials
Posted on October 30, 2009 in Costume Design, Digital Effects, Effects and Stunts, Featured, Makeup | 9 Comments
It’s that time of year again, so we thought it was time to update last years killer feature “Horror Filmmaking: From Script to Scream.” That’s right a sequel!
This time we are narrowing the focus a bit and concentrating on the DIY (Do It Yourself) elements. Hopefully this will help you slash the budget without murdering your production values.
DIY: Blood, Bullets & Stunts
Backyard FX: Stunt Dummy
- Blood & Bullets for No-Budget movies
- Blood Squirting Axe in the Back : BFX : Build
- Blood, the chemical way!
- Bloody Finger, Explosions, DIY Focus Wheel
- Blow your actor in Half
- Break-Away Furniture
- Breakaway Glass Windows, Bottles, Props, etc.
- Camera Mount, Gun Shot, Blood & Gore
- Create a Hollywood Style Gunshot Wound
- Creating Bullet Hits with Paintball Shots
- Eejit’s Guide to Blood
- Fake Blood
- Fake Blood Recipe
- Fake Blood Squibs
- Fake Cut Tutorial
- Fake Fun Bullet Holes
- Fake Shards of Glass for Special Effects
- Filming Sniper Scenes
- Got Blood?
- Hit By Car, Telekinesis, Spaceships, Machine Guns
- How the Hell You Make Blood?
- How to Impale Someone…Shed of the Dead
- How to make a Blood Shooter
- How to make a bullet hit
- How to make fake blood (Edible)
- How to make Sugar Glass
- How To: Make Fake Blood ( 5 Blood Recipes)
- Make Your Own Damn Blook (Video)
- No-Cook Edible Fake Blood for Mouth Wounds
- Proptastic – Prop Guns
- Realistic Knife Throw Effect
- Rip a leg off!!!
- Shot in the Head, Costumes, Props : Hollywood FX
- special effects makeup tutorial – exposed knuckle injury
- Squib Videos
- Squibs
- the Raven’s Blood Recipe
- Wikihow: How to make Fake Blood
DIY: Stage Effects/Green Screen
- $20 Fog Chiller
- Beginner X-10 Automation
- Best Fog Chiller
- DIY Blue (or Green) Screen
- DIY Clapboard
- DIY Projector Screen
- DIY Rear Projection Screen
- DIY special effects from “The Last Broadcast”
- Eeire Glowing Body Part…
- Entrance
- Entrance Columns
- Evil Dead Halloween Shaky Cam Effect : BFX
- Flicker Candle
- Flicker Fire
- Flicker Lantern
- Flicker Light
- Flickering Tunnel Lamps
- Flying Ghost Projector
- Fog Chiller 1
- Fog Chiller 2
- Fog Chiller 3
- Fog Chiller
- Fog Chiller Coffin
- Fog Controller
- Fog Machine
- Fog Machine Vortex
- fog-on-rocks-redux
- Ghetto Matrix Bullet Time
- Green-Screen & Stop-Motion Special Effects
- Greenscreens and Backdrop Stands
- How to Make a Rain Machine
- Inexpensive pneumatic cylinder
- Iron Based Fogger
- Large greenscreen (non-portable) for under $30.
- Lift & Turn Piston
- Light Flicker Box
- Lightning and thunder
- Lightning Light Box
- Lightning Machine
- Lightning Simulator
- Low Budget Fog-Chilling Witches Cauldron
- Portable Greenscreen with PVC and Cloth
- Small Fog Machine
- Snow Machine
- Thick and realistic movie fog
- Trash Can Chiller
DIY: Digital Effects
After Effects
- 2d Surface Nuke Tutorial Part 1
- 2d Surface Nuke Tutorial Part 2
- 2d Surface Nuke Tutorial Part 3
- Adobe After Effects – Fog 3D Effect
- Adobe After Effects Tutorial-How to Create a Portal
- Advanced Car Hit
- After Effects Dragon Ball Z Tutorial
- After Effects: Ghostbusters Tutorial
- After Effects: The Dark Knight
- Animate Rain Shadows in After Effects
- Blood Effects
- Blood Splatter
- Color Grade and Enhance a Horror Shot
- Create a “Bullet Time” Logo Shatter Effect
- Create a “Day After Tomorrow” Inspired Instant Freeze Effect
- Create a Breathtakingly Awesome Rain Scene – Day 1
- Create a Breathtakingly Awesome Rain Scene – Day 2
- Create a Burning Building VFX Shot
- Create a Forcefield
- Create a Hand Scanner
- Create an Explosion behind a person
- Create an explosion behind a person (harder version)
- Create explosion using cgi greenscreen
- Create Fairly Realistic Fire using CC Particle World
- Create Your Own “Private Ryan” Movie Shot – Day 1
- Create Your Own “Private Ryan” Movie Shot – Day 2
- Creating a Hologram Look in After Effects
- Creating a Tracked Head Wound
- Creating an Easy 3d Laser Blast
- Creating Basic Fire
- Creating Terminator
- Creating the Sin City Effect
- Crime and Chaos – Part 1 (Photoshop’s Vanishing Point)
- Crime and Chaos – Part 2
- Day to Night Conversion
- Demon Face Warp
- Design a Breathtaking Body Shatter Effect
- EarthQuake with 32bpc
- Energy
- Explosions in After Effects
- Flying through a tunnel in After Effects
- Freeze Frame Effect
- Gunshot Blood Spatter (Video)
- Head Explosion Tutorial (HD) After Effects
- Heart Rate Monitor
- Hit By Car
- Horror Tutorial
- How to create insect swarm inside of After Effects?
- How to do the Lightsaber Effect
- Kamehameha After Effects Tutorial
- Laser Beam Tutorial
- Making bullet holes in Metal Sheet
- Mortal Kombat Fatality Decapitation After Effects Tutorial 1
- Play with Fire to Create a Fiery Logo TransitionHow to Create Explosive Flower Fireworks
- Realistic Gun Blow Back
- Rivingtonfilm Tutorial: Realistic Gun Shots in After Effects
- Rivingtonfilm Tutorial: Vampire fang growth in After Effects
- Saw 4
- Simulate a Dramatic Underground Blast
- Sin City Effect part 2
- Teleporter Effect
- The Grunge Tutorial
- The Invisible Man
- Time Freeze
- Wanted Bullet Part 1
- Wanted Bullet Part 2
- Wanted Bullet Part 3
- Wanted Bullet Part 4
- Weather Replacement in AE CS3: Part 1
- Weather Replacement in AE CS3: Part 2
- Weather Replacement in AE CS3: Part 3
- Weather Replacement: Snow
Sony Vegas
- Creating a Hologram in Sony Vegas
- Creating an Alien – Sony Vegas Tutorial
- Demon Face Vegas Tutorial
- Explode or blow up almost anything in Vegas!
- Exploding Head – Sony Vegas Tutorial
- Explosion FX in Sony Vegas!
- Falling Out of The Sky Sony vegas Tutorial
- Freezing Time Tutorial with Sony Vegas
- Ghostly Poltergeist effect…Sony Vegas Tutorial
- Light saber / laser tutorial – Sony Vegas Pro
- Make a green screen using your TV
- Muzzle Flashes – Sony Vegas Tutorial
- Predator Invisibilty Chrome liquid effect – Vegas Tutorial
- SAVFX | Adding Exsplosions In Sony Vegas
- Sony Vegas – How to Add Muzzle Flashes and Gunfire
- Sony Vegas Tutorial – Eye Effects
- Sony Vegas Tutorial – Montage Red Fire Effect
- Sony Vegas Tutorial – Sin City Color Effect
- Sony vegas Tutorial.. blowing a hole in my body
- Teleport wormhole effect – Sony Vegas Tutorial
- TUTORIAL – Make yourself HIT by a CAR using Sony Vegas!
- TUTORIAL – Walk Through Wall or Door in Sony Vegas
DIY: Make-Up/Costumes
- 12 Great FX Makeup Articles
- Aging Makeup
- As Realistic as Zombie Makeup Gets!
- Build articulated wings
- Burnt Flesh Makeup
- Car Accident Make-up
- Cloak Making Guide
- Costume Resource Links
- Costume.org How To’s
- Costumepage.org The Costume Page
- Dan Perez Resin Casting Workshop
- Distressing Clothing Tutorial
- DIY Costumes from Costumzee.com
- DIY Life.com Costumes
- DIY Vampire Fangs
- Dress Making Guide
- Easy Gory FX Makeup
- Evil Ash Costume
- Face-Casting
- Fake Blood, Explosions, Harry Potter FX
- Faux robot walker
- Fly
- Flying Crank Ghost Puppet
- Gatling Gun Arm Costume
- Giant Monster Hands (now with action video!)
- Great looking, disgusting, intestines for horror films
- Grim Reaper Costume
- Harry Potter Voldemort Make-up : BFX
- Headless Bride from Duct Tape How to paint foam latex appliances
- How the Hell You Make Guts? How the Hell You Distress Scenery?
- How the Hell You Make Latex Masks!
- How to do Burn Makeup
- How to Make a Cyborg
- How to make a Gash with Stitches
- How to Make a Mummy Costume
- How to make a SAW Mask!Cheap Comfortable Fangs
- How to make a superhero costume
- Incredible feathered wings
- Iron Man: Build his mask and arc reactor
- Mask making For Beginners Planet of the Apes tunic
- Mortal Kombat Cyborg Face
- Neck Scar Gore Effect : BFX
- Realistic Demon Makeup
- Realistic scar with stitches
- Realistic Two Face Make up
- Realistic Werewolf Costume
- Samurai Armor
- Silent Hill Nurse Costume
- Stalker Costume
- Star Wars Costume and Prop Forum
- SteamPunk Goggles for Less
- Studio Creations.com tips and tricks
- Swamp Monster
- Terminator Chest : BFX : Build
- Terminator Make-Up and Arm Tutorials
- The Arming Coat
- The Dyeing Guide
- The Joker (Batman: The Dark Knight)
- Tuskin Raider Costume
- Using Silicone-based pastes to create quick makeup FX
- Zombies RevisitedZombies, Exposed Brains, Eye Pop-Out : BFX
- Zombie Makeup from the Haunted Report
DIY: Static Props
- $30 Mummy
- 13-Hour clock
- 13-hour clock
- 3D-TV
- 3D-TV part 2
- Aging Medical Bones & “Fallout 3″ Gore Bags.
- Air Cannon -
- Air Cannon Prototype
- Airless Body Slinger
- Alice (mourner statue)
- Alien capsule
- Alien Capsule
- Alien In A Jar
- ALieN PROJECT
- Almost free squirting blood effect
- Ambush Prop Torso Project
- Amon Ratep
- Articulated Monster Frame
- Baby Alien Specimen
- Baby Spiders
- Backyard FX Stunt Dummy
- Bats
- Bleeding Portrait
- Blood Transfusion Bottle
- Bloody Cutting Board
- Bloody Eyes Skull
- Bloody Skull Candle lamp
- Bouncing Bucky
- Bubblehead
- Bubbling Halloween Cauldron
- Bubbling Tower
- BucketHead Monster
- Bucky Corpsing Tutorial
- Bucky Demon
- Bucky Fir
- Budget Head Molding
- Bulbous Bucky
- Candelabra
- Carnivorous Plant
- Cauldron
- Cave Eyes
- Celtic Cross
- Chandelier
- Charred Corpse
- Civil War Cannon
- Climbing Skeletons
- Color Organ for 12v bulbs
- Cobweb Spider Gun – Simple Build
- Compact Skull Chandelier
- Comprehensive Corpsification Techniques
- Corpse
- Corpse Chandelier
- Corpse Face Experiments
- Corpse Hands
- Corpsification Techniques
- Creepy Things from Fishing Lures
- Corpsing a Blucky
- Dancing Ghost Ring
- Crypt Facade
- Crypt of the Phantasm
- Death
- Deaths Chair
- Decayed Arm How-To
- Demon Chair
- Demon Head
- Demon Reaper Skull
- Demon Skull
- Demon/Devil Mask
- Descend into Terror
- Devil Babies
- Devils Road
- Devils Rose
- Digital Sound Recorder How-To
- Distressing Clothing Tutorial
- DIY Flux Capacitor
- Dougie Head Hack
- Electric Chair
- Eyeball Door Hanging
- Eyeball Tube
- Eyes in the Bushes
- Eye-Bead Demons
- Face Transplant
- Face-Casting
- Fake Corpse, Dead Body, Halloween : BFX
- Fake Fire
- Fallen Angel
- Falling Chandelier
- Faux Pumpkin
- Figure Armature
- Fireflies
- Fitting Blucky with PVC
- Fixall Skull Plaque
- Flamethrower Prop
- Floating Candles
- Floating Lantern
- Floor Flame Lamps from Halogen Lamps
- Fogging Cauldron
- Forever Pumpkins
- Fountain of Youth
- FrankenHand Table
- Frankenstein
- Funeral Parlor Candle Holder
- Gargoyles
- Gargoyle Monument
- Gaslight Flicker Circuit
- Gaslight on a Budget
- Ghost Captain
- Ghostly Heads
- Giant Alien Stalk Thingy
- Giant Hand
- Giant Hanging Black Widow
- Giant Laser Weapon
- Giant Paper Mache Jack O Lanterns
- Giant Roof Spider
- Giant Spider
- Giant Spider Web
- Gibbet Cage
- Glowing Buck Eyes
- Glowing Eye Critter
- Glowing Eyes Portrait
- Glowing Pickle
- Glowing Spiderweb, Spider, Victim
- Goblin Greeter
- Good Samaritan Hellboy Gun
- Good, cheap, upgradeable sheet plastic vacuum former
- Grim Reaper
- Grim Reaper on Pile Of Bones
- Groundbreaker Corpses
- Groundbreaking Coffin
- Grumble
- Guillotine
- Gus, the low cost strong mannequin
- Guts
- Halloween Candlestick
- Halloween Grave
- Halloween Jars
- Halloween Labels for Bottles (and more)
- Hand Casting
- Hanging Skeleton in Cage
- Harry Potter Bookshelf
- Hangmans Cross
- Haunt Entrance
- Haunted Bird Bath
- Haunted Books
- Haunted Books 2
- Haunted Bookshelf
- Haunted Bust
- Haunted Hotel
- Haunted Mirror
- Haunted Portrait
- Haunted Tree
- Headless Horseman
- Headless Horseman 2
- Headless Horseman Costume
- Heartthrob
- Heavy Duty Groundbreaker
- Hellmouth
- Horsemans Horse
- Hot-Air Balloon prop
- How to build a Jet Pack
- How to make the Jigsaw’s puppet, Billy.
- How to turn a Christmas Tree into a Ghost
- Jack And Dave
- Jack the Pumpkin King
- Jacobs Ladder
- Jangling Chained Skull
- Jell-O Sculpture and Graveyard Fence
- Jumping Jack Coil
- Kleenex & Glue “Snot Rag Mache”
- Lantern
- Large UFO
- Laser Demon Eyes
- Laser Eye Vampire Skull
- Latex Face Mask
- Laughing Joking Skeletons
- LED Blinking Eyes
- LED color organ
- LED Eyes
- Leering Prop
- Let there be light
- Levitation
- Life Sized Halloween Tree
- Lifecasting (Professional)
- Lifecasting (Quick and Dirty)
- Low budget creature effects
- Madame Leota
- Magic Production Box
- Mailbu Lantern
- Making a Mythos Tome
- Making of the Wolf
- Making Rib Cages
- Mask making For Beginners
- Mat Switch
- Mechamo Crab & Halloween Hack
- Message In the Carpet
- Meteorite
- Milk Jug Monsters
- Minions Motorized Dancing Ghost Ring
- Mini-Spider
- Monster Face
- Mourner grave statue
- Mud Monster
- Mummify a Bucky
- Mummy
- Mummy Man
- NoNo Ghost
- Old Slat Board Facade
- Paper Mache Heads
- Paper Mache Pumpkin
- Paper Mache Skull 1
- Paper Mache Skull 2
- Paper Mache Skull 3
- Peeker
- Piny Hills Crypt
- PIR modifications
- Plastic Clone
- Possessed Dresser
- Prop Floater
- Puking Exorcist Head
- Punchbowl Babydoll
- PVC Armature Figures
- PVC Prop
- Quick Guillotine
- Rain Proof Black Light
- Rat Feast
- Reaper
- Reaper Stone
- Retro Ray Guns
- Rickety Floor
- Rocket Launcher
- Robotic Controller using an Atari 800
- Scarecrow 1
- Scarecrow 2
- Scarecrow 3
- Scissor Prop
- Skeleton hands
- Skeleton Warriors
- Skin Face
- Skull Lights
- Skull Mold
- Skull Nightlight
- Skull Torches
- Skull Walkway Lights
- Smokey Joe
- Snot Rag Creations/Casting A Skull
- Spaceship
- Spaceships
- Spell Book
- Spider Jumper
- Spider04
- Spiders on the Bush.
- Spiders Victim
- SpiderWeb Plans
- Spookyfire Flickering LED’s
- Stalker Prop
- Statue
- Stirring Cauldron
- Stone From Foam
- Strobe Ghost
- Super-Easy-Monster-In-The-Box (SEMITB)
- Swamp Thang
- Sweeney Todd’s Barber’s Chair
- Tar Pit
- Teleportation Pod
- Temperature Controller
- The Scarecrow from Hell
- Titanium goggles
- Toe Pincher Coffin
- Toe Pincher Coffin
- Transforming Box
- Trick Table
- Unborn
- Uncle Dirtnap
- Vacuform Table
- Vampire Teeth and Fangs
- Vampy
- Verno The Dragon
- Vines
- Wall How-To
- Wall Sconce
- Wire and Latex hands
- Wire Frame Skull
- Witch and Brew
- Witch Project
- Witches Campfire
- Witches cooking tri-pod stand
- Wizard Wands
- Yoda Project
- Zero Budget SciFi props
- Zombie Arms
- Zombie Hand
DIY: Motion Props
- Alien
- Animated Circling Ghosts
- Animated Skull
- Animated Werewolf Hack
- Animatronic hand
- Animatronic Head
- Animatronic Skeleton
- Animatronic Zombie
- Attack-a-gator
- Audio Servo
- Bob Popper Ghoul
- Body Slinger
- Boris Modifications
- Bubbling Brew
- Bucky Servo
- Coffin Jumper
- Axworthy Flying Ghost
- Axworthy Flying Ghost 2
- Axworthy Flying UFO
- Blinking Talking Skull
- Blinking Talking Skull
- Crate Pop-Up
- Creepy Props (Giant Ants)
- Cross-Fader for Peppers Ghost
- Dancing Santa Hack
- Dancing Skeletons
- Dangling Crank Spider
- Fan Motor
- Fanamatronic Ghoul
- Faux Flame Urn
- Flailer
- Flailer 2
- Flying Ghosts
- Fly’s Claw
- Graveyard Fence
- Grim Organist – (Video )
- Halloween Tinkering Popup Corpse
- Kicking Legs
- Kicking Legs
- Monster In A Box
- Monster in a Box 2
- Monster Mud Wall Breaker
- Monster Robot
- Moving Base and Push Rod – (French Page)
- Moving Tombstone
- Moving Tombstone
- Old Laughing Bucky
- Opening Tombstone
- PC Haunt Control
- PC Relay Driver Board
- Peek-a-boo Zombie Animatronic
- Peering Prop
- Pneumatic coffin
- Pond Monster
- Popping Skulls
- Possessed Mailbox
- Projected Ghosts
- Projected Light Ghosts
- Prop Controller
- Rocking a Chair with a Wiper Motor
- Rocking Gravestone
- Rotating Bodyparts
- Rotoff the Deadnose Reindeer
- Sarcophiguy
- Scanning Head
- Shaker Board
- Simple Animatronics (robotic hand)
- Simple Blucky Animation
- Simple Fancy Fence
- Simple Pop-up
- Spinning Floor
- Spinning Skull Ghost
- Spitting Snake
- Swinging Chandelier
- Talking Boris Mods
- Talking Boris
- Talking Bust
- Talking Skull
- Talking Tombstone
- Up and Down Head
- Vacuum Cleaner Guy
- Wheel of Death
DIY: Horror Sets
- Arch
- Big Entrance Sign
- Birdbath Fountain
- Bloody Skull Fountain
- Bone End-Table
- Boneyard BBQ
- Bony Chandelier
- Bottomless Pit
- Build a Miniature Set for $10
- Carnival Ticket Booth (plus Sign)
- Cemetery Fence
- Cemetery Fence
- Cemetery Gates, Columns, and Fence
- Cemetery Fence
- Cemetery Gate
- Cemetery Gate with Milk Crate Pillars
- Cemetery Gates and Posts
- Chainsaw Cabinet
- Chainsaw Static Prop!
- Cheap Foam Walls
- Cheap Stone Walls
- columns with propane flames
- Crush Room
- Crypt
- Crypt2
- Crypt / Mausoleum for FCG
- DIY Sci Fi Props (FilmmakerIQ.com)
- Donation Greek Column
- Drop Panel 3-Axis Skull Columns
- Dungeon Pillars!
- Facade
- Faux Foam Boards
- Goldie’s Toxic Waste Barrels
- Grave Grabber
- Grave Jumper
- Grave Popper
- Lamar Manor Sign
- Lamp Post Street Sign
- Lantern Pillar
- Lighted Vacancy Sign
- Mausoleum
- Obelisk
- Pillars Of Pain
- Skull Fountain Howto Skull Fountain
- Spiked Fencepost Finials
DIY: Packaging
Prop Shops & FX Supplies
- 9mm SFX : Custom Contact Lenses
- Arsenic Fashions
- BJ Winslow -Prop Maker, Painter, Art Department, Prop Rentals.
- CoastalContacts.com – Special Effect Contacts
- Custom Creatures
- Dapper Cadaver
- Di Stefano Productions presents Corpses For Sale.
- Frightcatalog.com
- Halloween Town Store
- Mold Making, Mold Rubber and Casting Resins From Smooth-On
- Post Mortem Studio Rentals – Medical Movie Sets, Horror Props, Tombstones
- Special Effect Supply Home Page
- SPFXMasks – Original Silicone Masks
- The Scarefactory
- TheHorrorDome.com
9 Comments
thank you for introducing me to backyard fx + indymogul
I’ve forwarded this article to friends
Whoa them’s a lot of props…
Nice resource, but quite a few links are dead.
Well, it is a horror post.
Maybe we’ll look at updating it around Halloween.
BFX & InduMogul makes the BEST props!! …and on the CHEAP, too!!
Wow, just what I’ve been looking for, but dissapointed with a few dead links
Can’t wait to see what you come up with this year.
Oh wow, that’s a lot of links! Man I feel well equipped if I want to make a horror film
thats alota props