Drew Pierce
Article by Devoe Yates

"Well, I guess I'm off to paint some Bologna," Drew quips as I leave. "Oscar Meyer just called and I have to go paint a bologna suit for one of their commercials." "One big giant bologna suit?" I ask. "No," he replies, "For some reason it's made of a couple hundred individual pieces of foam bologna." Another day, another meat effect I suppose. very strange things come out of Pierce's laboratory; his mind is a wonderful playground with a very dangerous swingset.

"Probably my biggest pet peeve is poor quality blood in movies, I can't stand pinking on clothes or inaccurate colors," says Drew Pierce, an expert on the way sof fake blood. Since he began mixing fake blood in his basement as a teenager, he's come up with 15 different recipes and eight different shades of red for fake blood. He calls his creation Bad Blood, and it can go in your mouth, wash out of your clothes and even dry like real blood. But that's not all he does. If you've ever wondered who makes those nasty bits of slimy guts and pulsating brains for Grey's Anatomy, then look no farther, you've found your man.

GA orders his blood by the pint, and they've even started ordering his intestine and brain creations. His proudest moment to date? That would be the shimmering moment when his homemade intestines were accepted by the powers that be at Grey's Anatomy. They all got a kick out of his "Bucket of Bowels," as the storage casing exclaimed.

"Apparently they were playing around with them on the set," Drew laughs. He even received a thank you letter from the Prop Master for making some damn good stomach sausage. At the time, the show was #1 in the ratings, and the intestines he'd made in a last minute dash were featured prominently in a slew of delicious close-ups. This was something he could finally call home about: "Hey, did you see my intestines on Grey's Anatomy?"

Besides making the McBloody for Anatomy, he's been working on shows lik CSI: Miami, Heroes, The Shield, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and American Misfits to name a few. He's even made belt buckles for Devil's Rejects, Domino and Kane Hodder- the man who played Jason Vorhees. He keeps damn busy, too busy to even have a social life.

After 12-hour days on the set, he comes straight home to his evil laboratory and beings his experiments, jamming to Mastodon, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and even Howard Stern shows. "It's funny, whenever I work on FX for someone else, it just makes me want to come home and work on my own FX." he still makes his way to concerts now and then, but as he says, "When I go out and have a drink and try to unwind, my mind just keeps going back to my next effect and how exactly it's going to work, the best way for it to work."

What does the future hold for Pierce? He's working on concepts for some FX heavy music videos and hopes to eventually find himself a Special FX Coordinator, overseeing the on-set filming for Digital FX and following the whole process for post-production, making sure that everything works together in that 'Movie Magic' sort of way.

There's the simple dreams as well. He's developing a line of fake sandwich meat to be sponsored by his friend Bill Moseley, aka Chop Top of Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 fame. It would supposedly be meat made from, well, you know, people, and they'd sell it online at horror conventions. But his biggest goal is perhaps my favorite, it makes me remember my own days as a Halloween-happy kid: "You remember that Dracula's tube of blood stuff you used to get when you're a kid? I just want on of those, a whole line of them and they would all say Bad Blood on them and be packaged with my special blood," Drew smoles. "When I get to that goal, I don't know what I'm going to do."

'Til then, you can check him out at horror conventions or on his website. Beware the faint of heart, there's a pretty nasty looking knee wound on there. Maybe you could even order some Bad Blood for the next time your in-laws are visiting; you won't be disappointed.