Head stomp Effect

On the 23rd of May, I filmed the head stomp scene for my movie, to achieve this I needed:

• A styrofoam head
• Water balloons (filled with fake blood)
• liquid latex
• makeup foundation
• a wig

The Head

First I used a hot wire cutter to cut a piece off the back of the styrofoam head and hollowed out the inside and separate piece.

Then I fit the water balloons inside the head and taped the head cap on, then applied liquid latex on the head to smoothen out the surface then I applied makeup foundation to make it lifelike and applied the wig on top.

Filming the scene

Once we filmed the scenes of our actor before the effect happens, we then switched it around and put the head on the body of my stunt dummy wearing the sweater and wig, once it was all in position I proceeded to stomp on the head, it was successful, though there wasn’t as much blood spatter as I was expecting, however, I was happy with the effect.

Note: In case the effect goes wrong in possible future projects, the best thing would be to create spares as backup.