Thread: Zombie Make-Up...with LIVE maggots!!!

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I think it would be a really kool look if you can pull it off somehow, though I keep imagining them getting free and falling into your mouth

If you decide to glue some of them directly to your latexed face you can slow them down by leaving in your fridge for a couple hours before a gluing. Your body heat alone should have them wriggling again just as the glue dries. Given any thought to low-temp glue gun?

what do you mean a real human skeleton?

The Skeleton is a story unto itself.

This was in 1990. We had been running a walk-thru at our house for a few years, getting bigger crowds and getting more advanced and in-depth each year. In those days, you could only rent a fog machine. Black lights were hard to come by. Not one to trifle with imitation, I arranged with the local University to borrow an authentic Skeleton for the haunt. In Canada, one needed a Permit To Transport Human Remains in order to move stuff like that around. We did everything by the numbers, and when I collected the skeleton, I used my pick-up truck, propping the thing in the passenger seat. You shoulkd have seen the looks I got in rush-hour traffic, Oh, Man! Returning it I used our car, with the thing lying down in the back seat.

Apparently these things are imported from India. The one we used was 5'-5" tall. It was used standing up tight behind a cage full of rats. The Rat Cage was 1/2" Hardware Cloth, 3' wide, 6' high, and only 6" deep. We didn't feed the rats (50 of 'em!) for two days, then placed peanut butter on the rear side of the cage. The guests were exposed to the skeleton cage for only 6-7 seconds and it looked for all the world that the rats were climbing all over the skelly, eating with a vengeance. It was a huge hit.

That's awesome! Your house must be amazing on Halloween.

You could try this Pros-Aide - Special Effects Makeup - Prosthetic Adhesive - Water-Based Skin Adhesive Its pretty strong stuff.

Good luck

Oh, wow, the things you can learn by being a Hallowe'en Freak!

For example, I have just learned that maggots have inspired Scientists to attempt to create "nano-bots" that would "eat" cancer cells. This idea stems from an old Medieval method of removing rancid dead flesh from injury sites by placing maggots in the wound. Is that cool or what?