History Main / RainOfBlood

* In Creator/{{Claude Chabrol}}'s 1970 serial killer movie ''Le Boucher'', a girl on a picnic is about to eat a white bread roll when red drops splash on her bread. It turns out that it’s blood dripping from a body that’s hidden in the hill above. The scene has [[http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/american-psycho/ inspired Mary Harron in designing the opening credits]] for her 2000 movie ''Film/{{American Psycho}}''.

Compare/Contrast BloodBath. Subtrope of BloodyHorror and RainOfSomethingUnusual.

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* * ''Film/{{Scarecrows}}'', the robbers find a parachute tangled in a tree that they think contains the stolen money. Jack climbs the tree to cut the money down, but when he slices open the chute, it is instead full of blood which drenches Curry.

* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': In "Victor, Victorian", Murdoch and Brackenridge are showing the Masons a sketch of a suspect at the Masonic Lodge when blood starts dripping on to the sketch. the blood is coming from someone lying dead in the room upstairs.

* ''Film/{{Scarecrows}}'', the robbers find a parachute tangled in a tree that they think contains the stolen money. Jack climbs the tree to cut the money down, but when he slices open the chute, it is instead full of blood which drenches Curry.

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* The famous Elevator Scene from ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' starts with some blood falling from the elevator's ceiling and hitting a cop in the face.

* In ''Film/{{Ravenous}}'', Martha discovers Private Cleaves' body while standing outside a window, and blood starts to drip down on her from the roof.
** From the same movie, Captain Boyd is buried alive at the bottom of a mass grave, with his commanding officers' blood dripping onto him from above.

* SwordOfMana has a blood rain that is actually benevolent. Slaying a certain monster responsible for a curse will cause her blood to rain down on the kingdom, breaking the curse by melting the ice she had encased everyone in.

Compare/Contrast BloodBath. Subtrope of BloodyHorror.

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* In the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' Fener takes the form of a humongous cloud in the shape of a boar at the end of ''Literature/TheCrippledGod'', and rains down his blood on the fighters [[spoiler: by the Spire when Karsa kills him]].
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* ''TheWheelOfTime'' does this a couple of times in DreamLand. Usually because some {{mook}} just had his skin ripped off. Counting this because dreams are real.

* ''HorsemenOfTheApocalypse'': Pestilence causes this, along with a plague of locusts to herald the rapture in WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}. The Cuylers [[TooKinkyToTorture happily]] eat the locusts and drink the blood, or as they call them "fried chicken and fruit punch."

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Weirdmageddon Part 1", this isn't shown onscreen, but a news report mentions blood rain. The river is red, so it's likely that it turned to blood as well.

** And if you play the U.S. version, which is censored, instead of raining blood it rains...[[FromBadToWorse cum]]. [[MemeticMutation And Suija can't get enough of it]].

* In a flashback dream in the ''{{Tsukihime}}'' anime, the blood of Shiki's mother drips down from a tree into his eye.

* Slayer's "Raining Blood".

* A favorite trick of Khorne in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}'', KAEDE Smith's gimmick involves [[BloodyMurder causing a blood shower by slitting her wrists]] in order to break certain barriers.
** A red shower is also the result of a Smile experiment on Andrei Ulmeyda, which happens to be filled with the diseases Ulmeyda infected himself with as a form of thrillseeking. It's so infectious it kills anyone hit with it except the Killer7 ([[spoiler:they're dead to begin with]]) and Gabriel Clemence, Ulmeyda's follower, who is immune to said diseases due to the cult's rituals.