As a fairly generic slasher/horror our film features a killer, and every killer needs a signature weapon. I set about creating ours using a baseball bat that I'd previously broken whilst recording some sound effects for a different project, sanding down the paint and coffee-staining it to give it an aged appearence.
I then hammered some nails into it and gave the tip some residual blood stains. Wanting to make the blood look aged I first smeared on some marmite and then added fake blood, which always gives away its artifice when it dries, looking overly pink, but discovered the marmite helps to keep it looking dark and fresh.
The end result is a formidable bludgeon that the unfortunate campers will get all too acquainted with.
We also needed a tarpaulin for the killer to drag a body in, I ended up using the ground mat from a 6-8 man tent and tying it up with rope...
... the corpse proved more difficult to acquire.
When the female character is found she has a burlap sack on her head. This came in the form of a scarecrow mask I had previously made for Halloween. We avoided having it in fully focused in frame to spare ourselves trouble with any bat-lawsuits.
Owing to sparse pre-production meetings we didn't get round to casting actors and as I had grown a beard to play the role of a homeless man in my drama film the role of 'creep' fell to me.
I basically recycled this entire outfit, minus the hat and with the hood up, as it fell pretty close to what I had envisioned when I first read the script. Not pictured are some clunky black boots ideal for kicking bodies into ditches
I also experimented with liquid latex to create a burn scar prosthesis but didn't use it as we wanted to keep the killers face obscured and so it would have been pointless time wasted on make up.
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