In the earlier days of the Halloween e-mail lists, we hosted the First Annual Southern California Halloween Chat List Workshop and Convention in Santa Maria Ca. in 1997. It was there that a very talented list member and long-time haunter, Jerry Chavez of SpookyFX.com revealed to the twenty or so haunt fanatics in attendance a very creative method of transforming a $10 blown-plastic skeleton ("Blucky") into a rotting corpse. Here is the general effect he tried to teach us in a half an hour. Realize that his example skull was about 5 times as nice as this one, but nonetheless you can get the general idea of how this is done here in the next few pages.

Death Lord