Late last month, Arrow Video debuted the Shock and Gore boxset, which featured 14 films from the Godfather of Gore himself Herschell Gordon Lewis. It featured several of the director’s most notorious films, many of which were receiving their blu-ray debut, which made the collection a must-have for genre fanatics. And if you were very lucky, you got your hands on the limited edition boxset (alas, it’s now sold out), which included a “super gory” eyeball for you to scare your friends and family with!
What makes that eyeball so cool is that it wasn’t some mass produced or mass manufactured chintzy toy that you find at the dollar store. Rather, Arrow Video went above and beyond and individually crafted each eye with the help and masterful work of special effects guru Dan Martin. What resulted was taking something that looked like this…
…and then ultimately turned it into this:
The full procedure, from beginning to end, has been documented with photos over at Arrow Videos blog]. I recommend checking it out because it really shows that this company cares about putting out a solid product as well as going above and beyond for their customers.