Step into our laboratory of low-budget lunacy and learn the dark arts of homemade special effects — no Hollywood budget required, just a fearless imagination and a few household horrors from your kitchen cabinet.

In this hands-on, two-hour workshop, you’ll concoct spine-chilling illusions using everyday ingredients:
🧟 Scar Wax – a cursed blend to make your skin crawl (literally)
💉 Stage Blood – a deliciously dreadful mix that’ll drip, ooze, and stain like the real thing
☠️ Acid Burn Effects – when vinegar meets baking soda and chaos ensues
🔪 Plus a sinister demo: the bleeding knife trick—because no horror is complete without a bit of stabbing theatrics.

Bring your morbid curiosity and leave your squeamishness at the door. You’ll learn to transform ordinary items into grisly showpieces fit for haunted houses, horror theatre, or your next backyard creature feature.

🕯️ Bonus Fright: Stick around for an uncensored peek into the bloody legacy of Le Théâtre du Grand Guignol—where gore met grandeur on the Parisian stage.

Welcome to the Experimentorium! Stretch out of the ordinary and learn new skills while you learn more about yourself.

Check out the other shows as part of the Strange Charlotte Festival: A Queen City Comedy Experience. Workshops and special events. Multi-show passes: https://queencitycomedy.corsizio.com/event/68df5ee389d440314f98f2ed

About Strange Charlotte Festival: A Queen City Comedy Experience

What if you took everything unusual or off-kilter in Charlotte and put it all in one weekend? A festival on the fringes that celebrates the quirky, weird, or downright macabre performers in the Queen City. Nine stunning shows and a full day of weird workshops, plus other fun events.

Homemade Horror: A DIY Special FX Workshop w/ Jackie Obando Carter