Lots of horror movies that deal with evil and Satan and the apocalypse have scenes where it’s raining blood. Slayer even has a great song called “Raining Blood”. And I just finished watching the (I thought fantastic) remake of Evil Dead, and it’s raining blood near the end. And that got me thinking: what would it mean if it’s raining blood?
Okay, so like it’s all scary and apocalyptic and everything, unless… Yes, unless you’re a hospital or a blood bank that’s low on blood. Then it would be great if it was raining blood! Oh, but if it’s raining blood, then what blood type would it be? I know most horror movies like to act like all blood is interchangeable, and anyone’s blood would work for transfusing anyone else, but it’s not, and it wouldn’t. So I guess they could just test it?
But wait a minute: what if it’s all blood types mixed together? Why, then it’s just useless, isn’t it? I mean, unless you’re a vampire. Then you could drink it, and think of all the lives you’d save! Oh, but what if it’s infected with contagious blood-borne pathogens? That would be really evil, as it would be useless to help people, but also gross and scary, and so that’s probably the case, if it’s all triggered by evil and stuff.
Oh, but if it starts raining blood, when it stops, will it just scab up? Or does it have to be blood from a living person to coagulate? And I don’t know which would make the roads more hazardous. There are just so many questions we need to ask about stuff like this. You can’t just run away in horror, because you might slip and hurt yourself, or you might have to drive home. And if you can’t see through the blood, and it makes you wreck, you might just need a transfusion…
But just in case you missed my point, the sky raining blood is not necessarily a bad thing. We would simply have to look into it a bit. Maybe it rains a different type every day of the week, and we just have to collect the right type in the correct buckets on the appropriate day of the week. What could be easier than that?
