Thread: Knife throwing illusion Prop

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This is how you can make it look like you have thrown a knife at someone. You could have them walk into a hallway then a person at the far end of the hallway acts like they are throwing a knife at a person with there back turned to the people walking into the hallway

Thanks for the BFX link. They are one of my favorite YouTube shows. I don't think I can make this work live on stage using a table or shield. If I was making a movie, it would be cool.

Originally Posted by undead_october

Come to think of it.. Wouldn't this "accident" go over better than the actual first premise..lol.. I mean, the magician throws the knife.. Then all of a sudden fake blood start gushing out of the person on the wheel. The magician freaks out runs up and start screaming ..My God.. Someone call an ambulance... and attemps to try to stop the bleeding with a rag, his coat or anything he can get his hands on.. After about 20 seconds of the audience or person thinking that it might actually be real. He lets everyone know that it isn't.. I don't know if this would go over in a magic show.. But in a haunted setting or haunted stage show.. I would imagine it would be pretty intense.

I saw a show where they actually did that to fool a bunch of people who had been let "behind the scenes" of a magician's show. I can't remember exactly what they did, but they faked the accident - had fake blood and everything. Had fake meds come in and start to cart the "dead person" away - then they sat up, lol

Maybe not a good idea, you wouldn't want people calling 911 without you realizing it only for them to show up after you've revealed the trick.