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Monster In A Box
October 19, 2011 | 
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I’ve built a prototype Monster-in-a-Box that I’m pretty happy with – based on Mark Butler’s Super Easy Monster in a Box, I just added a few enhancements – a real trunk (thrift shop $10), the drill opens the lid instead of lifting the box, a light inside to illuminate a half corpse prop (lid lifts about 3 inches – just enough to see “something” inside!). Originally I used a hardware store flasher disc (39 cents) to intermittently interrupt power to both the drill and the light so the box lid bangs erraticlly instead of at a steady pace but since it takes some time to “warm up”, I pulled it out in favor of a short duration timer instead. Here’s the scoop: …. (More)
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Bloody Eyes Skull
I bought a Glow-in-the-Dark Skeleton 50% off after Halloween. I glued rubber eyes into its eye sockets with holes drilled straight through. I used 1/4″ tubing to connect the eyes to the aquarium pump (~$20). Be aware that aquarium pumps only will pump up so high. Placement of the cauldron to catch the red water will adjust the flow out of the eyes.
I used a small ultrasonic humidifier in the cauldron to give a fog effect, but the falling water disrupts the fog. I illuminated the skeleton with a black light and used a strobe light on the falling water. The falling water under a strobe light give a great effect…..(More)
NOTE From ADMIN: My Brother and I did something like this. But instead of Eyes, we had blood coming out of his mouth and we put Dry Ice Inside.
Dragon
This was one of our first attempts at making an animated prop, and also using Monster Mud. We’re pretty happy with the result. The dragon’s mouth opens and closed, with fake flames in the mouth. Its wings also flap. We decided to just do the upper torso of the dragon. So it has arms and wings, but we skipped the lower half. It stands at about 6 feet tall. Here is a basic “How-to” on the dragon.
Biglots had a bunch of animated yard decorations. Including a frog, whose mouth opens and closes. We figured this would be the simplest way to get the mouth to move on the dragon. So we took the head off the frog, and used some wire to get a basic shape for the dragon head.
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