History Main / KensingtonGore

Punningly named after a street in UsefulNotes/{{London}}, this is a name for fake blood, especially the sticky, edible sort in old British horror films. Website/{{Everything2}} gives the recipe as:

The blood is sticky, thick, and [[RustproofBlood bright red]] (crimson in fact). The original Kensington Gore was a specific brand of proprietary stage blood manufactured by retired pharmacist John Tynegate in the '60s and '70s. It can be seen in a lot of old horror films, especially the Film/HammerHorror series. On the other side of the pond, Ben Nye is the most ubiquitous brand, to the point that its advertised "zesty mint" flavor has become a bit of a running joke in some theatrical circles.

-->-- ''Film/{{Juno}}''

* Referenced by Creator/GilbertAndSullivan, in the meta-sense. Knowing full well that the title was questionable and that the work in question would never top their previous masterpiece, Gilbert suggested renaming ''{{Theatre/Ruddigore}}'' ''Kensington Gore, or Not Quite So Good as Theatre/TheMikado''.

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The blood is sticky, thick, and [[RustproofBlood bright red]] (crimson in fact). The original Kensington Gore was a specific brand of proprietary stage blood manufactured by retired pharmacist John Tynegate in the '60s and '70s. It can be seen in a lot of old horror films, especially the Film/HammerHorror series.

* ''Music/{{Gwar}}'' is practically ''married'' to this trope, firing gallons of the stuff during concerts. There's a reason everyone at their shows prefer to wear white.

The blood is sticky, thick and [[RustproofBlood bright red]] (crimson in fact). The original Kensington Gore was a specific brand of proprietary stage blood manufactured by retired pharmacist John Tynegate in the '60s and '70s. It can be seen in a lot of old horror films, especially the Film/HammerHorror series.

* Averted in ''Series/ForeverKnight'', which used a fruit drink named Ribena, which is the right color red and *extremely* sweet.
* In one episode of ''Series/FaceOff'' the contestants had to mix up Kensington Gore and create a crime scene that was then critiqued by an actual retired homicide detective. Some of them used [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank way too much.]]

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** ''Film/SleepyHollow'' uses a very similar-looking kind of blood, mostly as an homage to the Hammer movies, but also for artistic reasons. Burton digitally desaturated the color blue so everything had a distinctly grey cast to it and enhanced the color red so it would stand out more.

* Uwe Boll LOVES this kind of fake blood.

Plain chocolate syrup is still used in black and white films as [[RealityIsUnrealistic brown looks more like blood than red would in monochrome]].

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* Shows up ''Film/TasteTheBloodOfDracula'', the sequel to the above when the eponymous substance starts take form in a goblet.

* ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'': The amounts of fake blood used and the very, ''very'' sugary recipe (which Creator/BruceCampbell actually gives and recommends in his autobiography) combined to leave every actor caked in unbearably sticky red mess at the end of every damn day of shooting. Campbell also mentions in his book that at one point instead of ripping, his dried shirt ''broke'' because it was so saturated with the stuff. In the Literature/CompleteWorldKnowledge books, he is credited as an expert "on the subject of fake blood".

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* Some of the older ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' films, particularly ''Film/GodzillaVsGigan'' and ''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla'', feature gallons of bright orangish-red blood being sprayed out of the monster suits during battles. The competing Franchise/{{Gamera}} films of the same era feature sometime similar, along with some [[BlackBlood green and blue blood]].

** Shows up ''Film/TasteTheBloodOfDracula'', the sequel to the above when the eponymous substance starts take form in a goblet.

** Lampshaded in ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', in which Bugs Bunny (spoofing the shower scene) is actually seen pouring chocolate syrup down the drain.
* If you happen to run into any of the non-Creator/BruceCampbell actors from the original ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'', do not mention fake blood unless you're prepared for a [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]]-like flashback. The amounts of fake blood used and the very, ''very'' sugary recipe (which Creator/BruceCampbell actually gives and recommends in his autobiography) combined to leave every actor caked in unbearably sticky red mess at the end of every damn day of shooting. Also don't mention contact lenses, for mostly the same reason (those white things ''hurt like a bitch'').
** Campbell also mentions in his book that at one point instead of ripping, his dried shirt ''broke'' because it was so saturated with the stuff. In the Literature/CompleteWorldKnowledge books, he is credited as an expert "on the subject of fake blood".