…specifically, the ones in the backalley plastic surgeon’s tray in 1989’s Batman?
I’ve always wondered if these were all actual surgical/medical instruments, or if they were bulked out with some scary looking props. I can identify some hemostats and a pair of bandage scissors, but I’m at a loss for the rest of them. Especially the ones that look like a Curry Comb and a pizza wheel.
Can anyone help? I’ve got a shopping trip coming u—er, it’s for a book. Yeeess…
I do believe that the pizza wheel is a manual drill and the curry comb is a bone saw of some sort.
On the left I see half of an OB forceps. Next to it I see a bandage scissors. Otherwise I see a long-handled scissors, a pick-ups, and a hemostat. Plus some sort of drill bit, I think. I don’t know what the metal tube is or the claw thing up top.
But it’s serrated, isn’t it? :eek:
If so, it looks like a special effect, not inherent to the instrument.
Given that they’re the same props used in Dead Ringers (1988) and, before that, Little Shop of Horrors (1986), they’re not actually real but, as QtM implies, they’re based on real equipment.
If you want surgical heebee jeebees, a visit to the Old Operating Theatre Museum in London is in order - they have a wonderfully macabre collection of surgical instruments that will make you shiver. Some film prop-maker has nothing on the imagination of those medical tool-makers, and they actually got used on live people (some of whom stayed alive afterwards).
Oh, and the collection of urethral sounds will make any male cringe, and curl up in the corner of the room weeping quietly.
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Well that was an interesting tidbit to learn…and it led to an even better shot of some of those instruments, in another tray!
…meep. :eek:
Obligatory drive-by **Cow Tool **posting.
You do realize that they use sounds on females also, right? I have stories from when I was 4-5 years old that would make you cringe in a corner and seriously cry.
The serration actually appears to be blood(?)stains on the cloth underneath, if you look carefully enough at the picture.
Though for movie-effects, serrated OB forceps is way cooler than simple bloodstained ones. Maybe more for “Alien Baby” vs. something like “Batman”, however.
