Anyway that's the norm for blood gags in the industry still.  Varies though as you CAN use similar thin plastic from Baggies or such but condoms are relatively easy to puncture. You can even have the actor hold a small straight pin and even if the fake knife won't pierce the actor can grab the wound and puncture the blood gag himself and the blood will seep out.  Many ways to accomplish, just depends the staging, the circumstances, the layout, etc.  NO ONE way to do it.  Just have to be creative and test as much as possible to find solid solutions.

 

TonyDi

 

 

Uh, YIKES!!! Yeah condoms are still being used widely today in the industry.  That's an old school idea that hasn't been improved upon necessarily.  Perhaps you CAN get some and cut them into squares or something and glue them together with more latex - like liquid latex so they wouldn't leak and wouldn't look like condoms.  Prep them ahead of time.  You would have to prep them by removing any powder that might be there and even wash the edges with acetone to remove anything that would prevent them from sticking together.  THAT STILL might be a problem though.  Hard to stick latex to latex that's been powdered. That material stretches very well and doesn't require a large piece to deal with.  You can fill with an empty syringe of some kind - even a kitchen baster with the rubber bulb on the end would work.  But yes I see the issue there.  Of course everyone that does blood letting gags has their own way of doing things but even the highest budget films still use the blood filled condoms for their hits.  Not much new to use unless it's pumped in from off camera - though with live performances it's impossible to do it that way.

 

Good luck.

 

TonyDi

 

 

You MAY be able to RENT some but I'll tell you they'll be pretty expensive.  REAL metal bladed retractable swords and knives - extremely real looking because they are - don't come cheap.  I used to have a couple of links but I'll have to dig to see if I can find them again.  You can search for something like realy Hollywood retractable swords and knives and there are several places I think that should come up.  Those are the links I've got someplace.  Let me look and if I can find them I'll edit this post.  But they're great pieces. Some might even be for sale but as I said - EXPENSIVE most likely because they're highly machined pieces that have been created.  I'll look for the links.

 

TonyDi