History Main / BloodyHorror

* Video game-based {{Creepypasta}}s are notorious for adding excessive amounts of blood to classic games. ''Fanfic/BloodWhistle'' had entire levels slathered in what the narrator describes as "realistic blood" with "an eerie, reflective quality that SHOULD have been graphically impossible for an 8-bit game," while ''Fanfic/SonicEXE'' infamously features not just realistic but "hyper-realistic" blood.

* In ''Literature/{{Another}}'' Mr. Kubodera dies by stabbing his own throat repeatedly in front of his students and causes them to be [[BloodSplatteredInnocents splattered by his blood]]

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' The Titans (giants) love to play with their food (humans), and will bite off people's bodies in bits spraying blood everywhere in the process. Or even just injure humans so they bleed out and leave them to die. The scariest part is that they don't even need to eat to survive. They eat humans for fun, and just throw them up later. So all the casualties in battle are pretty much killed for no reason.

* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' is a series about cannibalistic creatures that feed on human flesh. There are numerous scenes involving blood gushing, leaking, pouring, or splashing from bodies and people being covered in the red stuff. Notable scenes include Tsukiyama's white suit being soaked through after he tears a whole in someone, and Kaneki accidentally walking in on [[TheCutie Hinami]] eating....and freezing in horror at the sight of the cute little girl with blood splattered around her mouth.

* ''Webcomic/KuroShouri'' frequently has bloody fight scenes. Examples include the first villain, Hasha, [[spoiler:having his arms cut off and then turned into a puddle of blood]], and Kuroi having a hideout literally decorated with the parts of bloody corpses.

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* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In the episode ''Happy Birthday, Mr. Monk'', a maintenance man named Bradley Foster goes down into a garbage compactor to fix a jam. After he fixes it the episode's murderer flips the circuit breaker. The garbage compactor turns on, Bradley falls into it, and is brutally ripped apart.

* ''Series/BreakingBad'' has the infamous scene in "Cat's in the Bag..." where Jesse tries disposing of a body by putting in a bathtub and dousing it in hydrochloric acid...only for the acid to eat through the bathtub ''and'' the floor, causing the tub to crash down onto the floor below, spreading blood and liquefied remains everywhere.
* In the MiniSeries "In A Child's Name" (BasedOnATrueStory), a man murders his wife. Cops are suspicious and spray the bedroom with luminol. When the lights are turned off, ''[[https://youtu.be/uhBm08WEgS8 every single area of the room is covered with blood]]''. Even more terrifying is that the room appears to be pristine to the naked eye, making you wonder just what kind of obsessive psychopathic personality he was to clean it up so effectively.
* In ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', Dexter runs into a lot of this in his work as a blood-splatter analyst, though the show presents it through his viewpoint as a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] NightmareFetishist. It's played uncharacteristically straight when he comes across a blood-soaked crime scene that [[spoiler:recreates the shipping container that, as a young child, he spent three days locked inside with the dismembered corpse of his mother]]: he has a traumatic flashback and has to leave the room.

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* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': This is most often invoked by the villains since Kenshi is a peaceful person and is against killing. The villains tend to kill people in very bloody ways to make a point they're horrible murderers. Although quite a few characters [[IncurableCoughOfDeath Cough Up]] [[BloodFromTheMouth Blood]] after sustaining heavy hits causing life threatening organ damage, making the other characters fear if they'll come out alive. The Animated film with Kenshi's backstory is also very fear inducing with it's high amount of bloody deaths, and BloodSplatteredInnocents like Tomoe. Some of the characters also have a BloodbathVillainOrigin.

* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', [[HarmfulToMinors a four-year-old Izuku]] is thoroughly traumatized after he throws Bakugou through a wall with his reckless use of his newfound SuperStrength. He clearly remembers how Bakugou's body was just covered in blood. Later on, a flashback shows the full extent of Bakugou's injuries: [[spoiler:his chest was ripped open from end to end, his rips were protruding through his torso, and he was gushing blood. The sight of it makes Bakugou want to throw up when Death shows this to him.]]

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* In ''Film/TheMachinist'', Trevor Reznik is an anorexic insomniac who works heavy machinery. While working at the factory he accidentally makes a machine rip somebody's arm off. And ''then'', he hallucinates about a man who has an equally mutilated hand, with his thumb replaced by a toe.

There's no question, psychologically why this is the case. The fears of blood and death are very common, and most people like to keep their blood inside their body, and the rest of their body intact. This trope is why kid's show's tend to use [[SymbolicBlood symbolism]] in place of bleeding, use [[BlackBlood non standard colors]] for blood or just have BloodlessCarnage to get around the censors. This is because blood horror is often seen as too scary for young children.

* ''Ride/DungeonOfTerror'', the very first haunted house of [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's]] ''Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights'', had blood splattered on the walls.

* In Italian horror films there's ''Creator/LucioFulci's Film/CityOfTheLivingDead'' which involves a girl who begins [[TearsOfBlood bleeding from the eyes]]. Followed by her intestines and stomach being ejected from her mouth. The effect is...disturbingly realistic.

** Scar is a SerialKiller bent on revenge against alchemists. He can tear apart the alchemic makeup of his victims with an alchemic circle tattoo on his arm, often leaving bloody mess in his wake. The only real reason for him to kill the alchemists in such a bloody way, instead of disintegrating them completely, and leaving no evidence behind is the fear factor.

* A totally accidental instance happened at Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s ''Wrestling/JudgementDay 2004'' PPV during the match between Wrestling/EddieGuerrero and Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield. During a spot where JBL bashed Eddie in the head with a steel chair, Eddie "got too excited" and bladed[[note]]cut his head with a small concealed razor to draw blood in what is ''supposed'' to be an impressive but safe manner[[/note]] ''way'' too deep, nicking an artery. Rather than a steady trickle of blood that would stain his face red, Eddie sprayed his vitae all over the place until [[http://s2.dmcdn.net/ivTLO/1280x720-png/K-2.jpg the ring was literally soaked with crimson]]. Both men (perhaps unwisely) [[TheShowMustGoOn finished the match]] and once it was over Eddie collapsed and went into shock, requiring him to be hospitalised for a blood transfusion. It's seriously disturbing to watch- not only is the blood 100% real, Eddie could have ''actually died.''

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Gendo takes control of Shinji's biomech and forces it to kill Unit 03 against his will. Shinji experiences (through the mech) ripping someone apart and having blood splattered all over him, and is utterly powerless to stop it from happening. It was traumatic enough to teach Shinji to never disobey Gendo's orders, and only furthers the poor kid's psychological deterioration.