You know we love us some horror flicks here at Reactions, so this year for Halloween, we’re giving you a historical, chemical rundown of one of the most crucial elements of all scary flicks, fake blood. Make sure to take a look down below for a complete list of all clips used in this movie. Watch them all!
Sources:
- Chemistry of Hemoglobin
- Compound chemistry on blood
- Grand Guinol Fake Blood/Methyl Cellulose
- Grand Guinol Fake Blood/Methyl Cellulose
- Grand Guinol historical fake gore
- Carmine
- Carmine in your food
- Glycerol
- Glycerol
- Methyl Cellulose Slime – Special Effects: New Histories, Theories, & Context; Chaptor 1: Ectoplasm and Oil
- Methyl Cellulose info from Dow
- The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930
- Hitchcock Sneaks Past the MPPC with Psycho
- Hitchcock used Bosco – Masters of Deception, PG 200
- Bosco used in Night of Living Dead – Night of the Living Dead, PG. 11. Corn Syrup
- Hammer’s Entry into Horror with The Curse of Frankenstein - The Routledge Companion to British Media History, PG. 419.
- Hammer Horror
- Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Custom Red Blood from Barfred Laboratories – The Godfather of Gore, PG. 39
- Composition of Koapectate
- Scientific America Article on DIY blood
- Dick Smith
- Methylparaben effect on Sugars
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