Video Horror School — Instructor
Caid Rhymes
20 years of practical SFX. Horror mazes, film sets, SplatFest, independent productions. Brisbane, AU. Now teaching everything.
EXPERIENCE: 20 YEARS
LOCATION: BRIS-VEGAS, AU
PHILOSOPHY: PRACTICAL OVER DIGITAL
Speciality
Foam latex, silicone, gelatin, creature builds, animatronics, horror production, fake blood at scale.
Background
Horror mazes. Independent film. SplatFest. Live events. 20 years in the practical FX trenches in Brisbane.
Philosophy
Practical over digital. Cheap over expensive. Real over polished. Make the thing. Test it. Shoot it.
Part of
Splatter VHS universe. Sister brands: Glitchforge Labs (robotics), Circuitry of the Damned (music).
The School
Video Horror School exists because nobody else is teaching practical horror FX the way it's actually done on low-budget sets. Not the Hollywood way. The real way — with limited money, improvised rigs, and twenty years of knowing what actually works through a camera.
Every lesson is built from real productions. The fake blood recipes come from the 1000 litre shoot. The prosthetic techniques come from haunt attraction seasons. The animatronics content comes from building Nyx-9 from the ground up.
This isn't a film school course. It's a field manual.
Sister Brand
— Splatter VHS. Horror fiction. The publishing arm.
Splatterpunk novels, cyberpunk horror, Australian outback folk horror. The books that run alongside the school.