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You need:
l Clingfilm
l An old T-shirt
l Fake blood
l Dough


These guts are for movie-making, but if you want to use them as a costume, strap them to your body in a clear plastic bag.

Step 1
Prep the victim
Wrap clingfilm around the torso of your victim (it makes the clean-up process much easier). Cut a six-inch slit in the front of their T-shirt, just below the ribcage.

Step 2
Making the guts
Make some dough (or use the ready-made kind). Tear it into strips and roll it into sausages. Put it in a bowl, then cover it with fake blood and a drop of blue food colouring.

Step 3
Applying the guts
After the blood has soaked into the dough mixture for five minutes, lie your victim down and shove the guts under the edges of the hole in their T-shirt. Let them flop bloodily down the sides for a nice natural effect. As an optional extra, if you have any plastic internal organs from a fancy dress shop lying around – such as a liver, stomach or pancreas – shove them into the guts and tangle them up for added viscera.

Step 4
Dressing
Take the bowl that contains the remaining blood mixture and stand over your victim, pouring the blood over the guts hanging out of their T-shirt – it’ll pool disgustingly down the sides of their body. Pour more blood over your victim’s mouth, and splatter their neck and T-shirt with gore.

Step 5
Finishing
If you decide to move your victim for a different shot, you’ll need to hold their ‘guts’ and then plop them back on when you’ve got them sitting comfortably. Add a few scary props, and you’re all finished!

Doughless fake guts
Use a towel to make a bowel
If there’s no dough to hand, use kitchen roll. Pour a little liquid latex into the bottom of a bucket, add a few drops of red food colouring and swirl it to mix. Roll up some paper towels and submerge them in the mixture, then leave them to dry for a few minutes. Voilà: kitchen roll intestines!