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Kensington Gore
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Punningly named after a street in London, this is a name for fake blood, especially the sticky, edible sort in old British horror films. Everything2 gives the recipe as: 2 cups of corn syrup (for viscosity and color) 1 cup of water (for balancing viscosity) 10 tablespoons of corn (maize) flour (for making the blood less translucent) 10 teaspoons red food coloring (for color) 10 drops blue food coloring (for color) A few drops concentrated mint (for taste - optional) The blood is sticky, thick, and 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 Hammer Horror series. On the other side of the pond, Ben Nye is the most ubiquitous brand, to the point that its advertised "zesty mint" flavor - to make it more appetising for people who have to have it in and around their mouth for long sessions - has become a bit of a running joke in some theatrical circles. Plain chocolate syrup is still used in black and white films as brown looks more like blood than red would in monochrome and better matches the viscosity of real-world blood. See also A Bloody Mess. |
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A Hard Day's Night plays with this in a canteen scene: an actor uses ketchup first on his food and then on his "wound." | |
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Sleepy Hollow (1999) 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. | |
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A Twist of the Knife: Anthony uses this exact phrase to describe the bag of fake blood that Sky Palmer wears under her uniform, which is supposed to burst when she's stabbed at the end of Act I of their play, Mindgame. | |
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Parodied in Tongan Ninja, when the blood coming out of Sione's mouth is a bright shade of fuchsia pink. | |
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This type of fake blood featured heavily in Kill Bill, as an homage to the Shaw Bros' kung-fu films that used the same sort. Also used was the authentic Shaw method of fake-blood-delivery, i.e., bursting condoms filled with the stuff. | |
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Used in the violent episodes of Saul of the Mole Men. Extensively. | |
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The Evil Dead (1981): The amounts of fake blood used and the very, very sugary recipe (which Bruce Campbell actually gives and recommends in his autobiography) combined to leave every actor caked in an 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 Complete World Knowledge books, he is credited as an expert "on the subject of fake blood". | |
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Averted in Forever Knight, which used a fruit drink named Ribena, which is the right color red and extremely sweet. | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The Black Knight scene and the Killer Rabbit scene. | |
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When 60 Minutes profiled drive-in movie mogul Earl Owensby, film techies were shown using Karo syrup and other ingredients to make this mixture. | |
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Lampshaded in Tropic Thunder, where Ben Stiller's character holds up a corpse's head and says that it is a prop, using corn syrup fake blood. Becomes a double subversion, since it is a fake head being portrayed as a real head while still being a fake head. | |
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Reservoir Dogs: Mr. Orange's gut-shot blood pool hardened during takes and Tim Roth had to be peeled off the floor after filming. | |
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Whatever The Shining used in the elevator sequence was significantly more watery than Kensington Gore. The sheer quantity of it was impressive, though. | |
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My Hero Academia: During the second leg of the Hero License Exam arc, the entire training field is immediately obliterated. Everyone becomes startled when various bystanders covered in blood arise from the rubble, but it's then explained that these are specially trained actors to help stage rescue scenarios. One even holds a bottle of fake blood up to the screen. | |
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Some of the older Godzilla films, particularly Godzilla vs. Gigan and Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, feature gallons of bright orangish-red blood being sprayed out of the monster suits during battles. The competing Gamera films of the same era feature sometime similar, along with some green and blue blood. | |
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The orange-ish stage blood used in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is also a Hammer tribute. As in Sleepy Hollow, digital desaturation of the color blue makes the blood stand out more. | |
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This is a key plot point in the first Scream movie. Billy uses fake blood to make it look as though Ghostface had stabbed him, giving a Shout-Out to Carrie in the process. | |
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The original Dawn of the Dead (1978) uses an extremely bright, opaque fake blood made from sugar cane syrup, peanut butter, and food coloring. Director George A. Romero loved it because he felt it matched the film's comic book atmosphere perfectly, while special effects supervisor Tom Savini hated it because he prefers things to look more realistic. | |
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In one episode of Face/Off, 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 way too much. | |
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Shows up Taste the Blood of Dracula, the sequel to the above when the eponymous substance starts to take form in a goblet. | |
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Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, especially the opening. | |
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The famous prom scene in Carrie used a concoction known as 7-11 Blood mixed with food coloring. This fake blood wound up drying and sticking to Sissy Spacek's skin under the hot lights, forcing the crew to hose her down after each take. And they needed 35 takes to get the scene right. | |
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