Hellboy and IT: What’s Up with All the Blood?

The past few days a couple headlines about highly anticipated movies have caught my eye, namely Hellboy and IT: Chapter Two. Both because they emphasized the blood in them. Here, I’ll show you what I mean.

• “The latest trailer for the Hellboy reboot brings the blood and gore” – The Verge
• “IT: Chapter Two Has the Most Blood That’s Ever Been in a Horror Movie” – Arrow in the Head

Hellboy – In Theaters April 12, 2019

According to The Verge, Hellboy has been “billed as a hard-R film,” but skeptical fans weren’t too thrilled with the first trailer release in December 2018. Diehard Hellboy fans wanted Guillermo del Toro back directing the third installment, and Ron Perlman to reprise his role as the title character.

Not sure del Toro would say he’s gone on to bigger and better things, but he’s definitely gone on to other things.

Enter Neil Marshall (The Descent and Game of Thrones) as director, and David Harbour (Stranger Things) as the “new” Hellboy. What have they come up with?

The first trailer doesn’t seem very hardcore. It does come off as more silly than intense.

But the second trailer, especially the red band one (there’s also a green band version that’s exactly the same thing minus the cussing and some of the violence) brings the goods. It reminds me more of Deadpool. The new Hellboy is definitely not meant for children.

But is there a lot of blood? I saw some in the red band trailer, but really not an excessive amount.

Here’s both the first trailer and the second, red band, one if you want to compare and contrast and get more of a taste of what to expect.

First Trailer

Red Band Trailer

 

IT: Chapter Two – In Theaters September 6, 2019

Will It: Chapter Two have the most blood that’s ever been in a horror movie? Not sure. But here’s where that idea comes from: Jessica Chastain’s appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Arrow in the Head reported she said this:

Okay, I’m going to say something, and I think I’m going to be in trouble, but I’m going to do it. It might be a spoiler. But in the movie, there’s a scene that someone said on set that it’s the most blood that’s ever been in a horror film in a scene. And I’ll tell you, the next day I was like pulling blood out of my eyeballs.

Oh, okay, most blood in a scene. Not in an a whole horror movie ever. That seemed a little unnecessary –not to mention hard to do.

IT: Chapter Two Trailer? 

As of this post, there’s not an official one out yet. Rumor from Screen Rant has it that it’s coming April 2019. Right around the corner… #HoldTight

Phew

I’m not going to lie. I’m relieved that blood may not be as huge a factor as these two articles implied.

Not that I know which horror movie holds the title for goriest ever (if you do, please use the comment section to let me know), but the more excessive the blood, the worst the horror movie IMO.

I guess my tastes have changed. Maybe I was all about the blood in my teens, but now a good horror movie to me is more psychological.

Actually I wasn’t even all that into blood in my teens. It’s not that I’m squeamish, because I’m not. Too much blood seems like a cop out. It can be effective in certain scenes, but too much just for the sake of it? A gross out is not scary. It’s just, well…gross.

After what I’ve learned about both Hellboy and It: Chapter Two, however, I’m still excited to see both –and prepared for whatever amount of blood they unleash. What about you?