{"id":273154,"date":"2025-11-09T11:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/273154\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T11:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:54:11","slug":"halstead-horror-chocolatier-creates-gory-props-for-netflix-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/273154\/","title":{"rendered":"Halstead ‘horror chocolatier’ creates gory props for Netflix film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neve Gordon-Farleigh and <\/p>\n

Henry Godfrey-Evans,in Halstead<\/p>\n

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Sarah Hardy says she has carved a niche out for herself as a “horror chocolatier” <\/p>\n

A food artist who calls herself a “horror chocolatier” has carved out a niche creating edible skulls, hearts and insects which have featured across film and television. <\/p>\n

Sarah Hardy runs The Edible Museum at her home in Sible Hedingham, near Halstead, Essex, with one her earliest commissions coming from Mick Jagger for his daughter’s birthday cake. <\/p>\n

She has used her background in sculpting to create chocolate frogs and beetles, catching the attention of Netflix’s newest Frankenstein adaption. <\/p>\n

“One of the problems with what I do is you have to know that it’s chocolate, otherwise you just think you’re looking at a mould or a model or a toy,” she said. <\/p>\n

Even before making edible anatomy, Ms Hardy said she was creating “strange sculptures”. <\/p>\n

Her material of choice changed<\/a> when she became pregnant and she started creating in the kitchen. <\/p>\n

“I learnt to make really accurate moulds so I use a lot of moulding as well as sculpting and that’s where my work looks different from normal chocolates because I can use the real thing and sculpt it. It just takes a lot of time,” she told BBC Look East.<\/p>\n

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Ms Hardy says she can make up to 50 chocolate hearts in a day<\/p>\n

Her creations are made out of milk, dark and white chocolate – with white preferred for skulls – and can see her working into the early hours of the morning with some items taking weeks to make. <\/p>\n

She said the skulls could be “really difficult” to create, making up to 10 day compared to the 50 chocolate hearts she could made a day. <\/p>\n

She jumped at the chance to have her work<\/a> featured in the latest Netflix adaptation of the 1818 Mary Shelley novel, Frankenstein. <\/p>\n

Directed by Guillemo Del Toro, the film stars<\/a> Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as his monster. <\/p>\n

“We get quite a lot of queries and questions to make exciting things and mostly they don’t come to fruition,” Ms Hardy continued. <\/p>\n

“In this case it’s come through and I know it’s in the film; it’s just really exciting.” <\/p>\n

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A range of chocolate beetles were commissioned to feature in the Frankenstein adaption and were taken to Glasgow for filming<\/p>\n

Ms Hardy was commissioned to make human hearts, bugs and beetles for the film which she said were coloured specifically to refer to people or episodes of the character’s life. <\/p>\n

She said once the props had been delivered to Glasgow, filmmakers asked for “a lot more”.<\/p>\n

“Gore is my thing,” she added. <\/p>\n

“I love horror and I’ve carved out this niche. It is a very small niche of being the horror chocolatier.”<\/p>\n

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While her creations look incredibly life-like, Ms Hardy says she often stays up working until the early hours of the morning and can spend weeks on one piece<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neve Gordon-Farleigh and Henry Godfrey-Evans,in Halstead Henry Godfrey-Evans\/BBC Sarah Hardy says she has carved a niche out for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-273154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}