Wounds and Gory Deaths

Wounds and Gore

If we chose to include an accident involving glass (or it could be adapted to a knife wound and other cuts), a similar effect to the one shown above in Suspiria can easily be achieved through the use of theatrical wax and make-up. Although we have little skill in costume make-up and a low budget, a smaller scale version of the above wound could easily and effectively be made.
Also, we can use similar techniques to create burns and other bloody gashes on the body if we chose to include a gory death or chose zombies as our evil. Burns and glass cuts could be very effective if we decide to chose a home location and involve a fire or the victim falling through glass/out of a building. We can use this and cut to a shot of the victim after a fall to avoid having to find an effective actor to participate in a drawn-out death scene and to increase the pace of the scene, increasing fear.

As we are planning to possibly include a flashback within our opening scene, we could possibly show our victim after their attack with them having survived. By using make-up to create the appearance of scars healing over time, we could allow the audience to more easily establish a connection between the victim in the future. It is, again, easily achievable with little experience and can be produced effectively with pharmacy-bought products.

If we include a possesion/zombie/supernatural being within our plot, or even just to represent death, coloured contacts would allow us to easily alter a character's personality. If we want to take away a character's innocent/want the audience to feel no empathy for them, changing the eyes is an effective technique due to being the core feature of the face that conveys emotion. Changing the natural colour of someone's eyes to a demonic small pupil with an unnatural colour like in The Exorcist can allow the character to be consumed by evil and to break any bonds the viewer may have formed with them (it also helps when used for possessio to show the audience when the evil is present if it is not entirely clear within the plot).