History Main / RainOfBlood

* The stageshows of the band Music/{{GWAR}} involve the bad dismemberin humans and creatures and having their blood spray into the audience.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Siren}}'' canon, it is strongly implied that within the village proper all sources of water in nature turns to blood (well, technically it's some kind of plague water, but...). In the manual of ''Siren 1'' it's even used to justify your regenerating health, since you keep regenerating because the water is already in your veins, slowly transforming you into a shibito and, unless the person has a certain family's blood in them, there's no avoiding this fate. Even then, once the water is in the character's veins they are stuck in the underworld for good.

* In the beginning of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', [[spoiler:Snake narrowly evades a group of Gecko bipedal robots and leans against a wall for a quick smoke break. A drop of blood falls on his shoulder, and he slowly looks up to see a body impaled on a Gecko that subsequently tries to kill him.]]

* The Sorrow, from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3''. It rains blood when he shows up at least twice!

* In the ColdOpen to an episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'', a group of painters are painting an apartment white. One painter dips his roller, and it starts to paint pink. Cue looking at his paint tray and seeing blood dripping into it from the ceiling.

* Subverted in ''Film/{{Predator}}'', in that none of TheSquad led by Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger see it. As they search the jungle below, we see blood dripping on a leaf above their heads, then the camera pans up to reveal the naked body of their colleague hanging from the treetops.

* Slayer's "Raining Blood", naturally. It tells of its singer describing the horrific sights in Hell. At least once, the band has played under an actual rain of blood, drenching them in red as they play their instruments, ending with a "SeeYouInHell" to their audience.

* ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne'':

* Fuuma dispatches Kusanagi this way with a psychic attack after [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he outlives his usefulness]] in the movie version of ''Manga/{{X1999}}''.

* One of the many times Dokuro kills Sakura in ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'', she rips his body into shreds and than states how his blood shall become the rainwater.

* ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976''. The gang members have CutPhoneLines to prevent anyone reporting that Precinct 13 is under attack. Two frustrated police officers are driving around the area trying to pinpoint the reported gunfire and find a missing telephone linesman who's been sent to repair them. At one point they stop the patrol car while trying to get some backup into the area to help and start griping that it's started to rain. Then they shine a flashlight upwards and see the dead linesman hanging from the telephone pole.

* ''Film/DarkWasTheNight'': After stumbling upon a member of the logging crew’s severed arm, the foreman has drops of blood fall on him, alerting him to a corpse stuffed into the tree. This is what encourages him to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere try and book it.]]

* In ''Film/{{Blade}}'', human blood was piped through the sprinkler system, creating both a rain of blood and suppertime to a rave club full of vampires.

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* The Brood (Gangrel, Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}}) did this to their opponents in 1998-1999.

* In ''TheTripper'', this is how a corpse hanging from a tree is discovered.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'':

* Combining a Hydrosophist and Necromancer skill book in ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'' will create the aptly named "Blood Rain" skill book. Casting it will coat the ground with blood (which can be interacted with via the game's GeoEffects system). It puts out fires like the regular Rain spell, but will also cause anyone in the area without physical armor to begin bleeding.

Compare/Contrast BloodBath. Subtrope of BloodyHorror and RainOfSomethingUnusual. Also see DroolHello.