What Type of Knife Should Our Film Use- Planning

Background-

When doing research on how to make a knife, I kind of skipped the prosses of deciding what type of knife I should make. With me realizing this mistake before making the knife, here is the prosses of me deciding which knife to do.

The Requirements:

In our film, the knife needs to be tangible in the time frame. The main knife that is taken out through that is Sci-Fi and fantasy-based knives. No lightsabers. The knife for the film is based on the director's vision. The vision is a stab-based weapon. With the book of Agatha Cristie's Murder on the Orient Express giving the description I feels fit the death: "The blows seem to have been delivered haphazard and at random... frenzy stuck blindly again". This adds to the overall effect of the murder happening due to a drunk or crazed accident. With the 1974 version having the same colors as our film but for different reasons.

The Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

What type of knife can do this damage? Well, all knives without a serrated edge work; due to excess friction. So that narrowed it down to two types of knives: switchblade and kitchen.

Switchblade:

This knife requires more parts to make but has the right size, shape and fits into the time frame of the film. But is too small.

Switchblade

Kitchen Knife:

This knife naturally has the easiest shape and color to make, with many handle types another of that nature. My director, who wanted to make this film to have horror elements, mentioned Micheal Myres Knife as a reference for this. With a quick synopsis the reason this horror works is because it is just in a suburbia with the weapon commonly found there. Which she wants that fear to be in our film (for some reason). Here is a picture for reference:

Micheal Myres with his knife

This knife has promise but I am worried that genre convergence of access would affect our film. Even with this problem, the knife could just come from the house.

Take Away:

Look at the images above and broad search for our film. The common kitchen knife fit to the film, a lot better than a switch blade. With that decided the next post will go over the process of making the knife. With also easy to access schematics.

Kitchen Knife Anatomy - Element Knife Company