Blood From The Mouth / Live-Action Films

• 1BR: One of the tenants who ends up getting slapped by all the others has a bit of blood come out of the side of his mouth when slapped by Sarah.
  • Lots of blood comes out of Jack's mouth while Sarah stabs him to death.
• Anger of the Dead: While waiting in the hospital for Alice to return to him, Stephen ends up coughing up quite a bit of blood.
• In Apache Gold, Klekih-petra, an old man who is a white father to the Indians dies with the ominous blood, being murdered by Santer. He doesn't die immediately and begs Winnetou, a future Apache chief, to save the peace.
• Avengers: Infinity War
  • Loki bleeds from the mouth as he's strangled to death by Thanos.
  • Thor has a bloody mouth after Ebony Maw gags him with a piece of metal.
  • After being stabbed through the abdomen with his own nanobot-sword, Tony is left weakly wheezing for air as he spits out blood.
• In Batman Begins, the old man referred to as Ra's al Ghul was bleeding from the mouth after being hit by a pile of logs in a burning building Bruce Wayne and Ra's al Ghul were both in.
• Batman Returns has the Penguin hacking up nasty black bile right before he finally dies.
• Bethany: Dr. Brown has blood coming out of his mouth when Aaron slashes his throat.
• Billy Club (2013): Blood can be seen escaping from a lot of Billy's victims' mouths when he attacks them. We even see it on the corpses of the victims of his 1981 massacre.
• In Black Death, this is the symptom indicating that Griff has been infected. Subverted in that, he doesn't die but is finished off by his friend.
• In Blade Runner, blood flows from Deckard's mouth into a backlit shot glass. Possibly the most beautiful Blood From the Mouth scene ever shot- but honestly, do you expect anything less from Ridley Scott?
• In Blood Harvest, Gary bleeds from the mouth after Mervo shoots him in the chest.
• Blood Pi: People have blood coming out of their mouths when attacked, like the cheerleader Amber killed and stole the face of, and Amber herself in the final scene in the movie.
• Blood Widow: Blood comes out of Amber's mouth after the killer stabs her in the neck.
• In Bloody Homecoming, Annie gets stabbed through the back of her head and the stake comes out her mouth, accompanied by a copious amount of blood. Later Roddy is stabbed through the chest from behind and blood fountains out of his mouth.
• The Bloody Man: In the Bloody Man story Sam is reading, a man named Charles shoves his wife so she won't destroy the book he's trying to use to improve their harvest. She hits the wall behind her, and blood pours from her mouth, showing that he accidentally killed her.
• In Das Boot the lethal version of this happens to the Captain. In the novel, it is explained that he has shrapnel wounds through his back.
• In Bram Stoker's Dracula when the hunters confront the newly vampirized Lucy. Van Helsing forces her back with his cross and back to her coffin. Apparently the holy power is so much for her that she actually punks up blood in his face before finally going dormant. When they proceed to stake her, you can see blood dripping from the sides of Lucy's mouth.
• In Jane Campion's Bright Star, Fanny finds out that Keats is ill when she sees blood-stained linen (he's not seen coughing blood at that point, but the implications are pretty clear.)
• In The Bucket List, Edward confirms he has cancer when he coughs up blood into a handkerchief.
• In Cabin Fever 2, the attendees of a school prom have been drinking punch that a) was made from bottled water from the small town featured in the first Cabin Fever movie—you know, the stuff that's infected with necrotizing fasciitis—and b) was thereafter pissed in by a custodian infected with the same disease. About halfway through everyone starts vomiting blood all over the place as they apparently realize that their internal organs have liquefied.
• Capps Crossing: Jessica has blood coming from her mouth when David stabs her in the torso with the stick he was whittling.
• A Classic Horror Story: Mark has a line of blood coming out of the side of his mouth, probably from crashing the RV into a tree.
• Class of Nuke 'Em High Part II: Subhumanoid Meltdown: Harvey the subhumanoid is ordered to eat glass by Yoke. Being programmed to be completely subservient, Harvey does it no questions asked. Naturally, he starts bleeding a lot from his mouth as a result of the glass cutting it up.
• Clown Kill: After being fired, the janitor is so angry at Jenny that he punches her in the face hard enough that she spits out blood. He does the same to Nigel when he tries diffusing the situation.
• Clown Motel: Blood comes out of Chris' mouth after getting a windshield wiper jammed down his throat by a clown.
  • Ian has blood coming out of his mouth from getting his arms ripped off, and then dying from falling against a rock.
• Clownface: Starting with Rick, people have blood coming out of their mouths when attacked by Clownface.
• Cobb: After discovering Al Stump's stash of personal-draft notes for the book, stopping himself from capping him in his sleep and finally proceeding to shoot himself in the mouth, old age starts catching up with Ty as he runs off to cough a bunch up all over the bathroom sink. Unable to clean it up, he leaves Al a note there ("You lying son of a bitch") saying he'd gone off to the hospital.
• Conjoined: Stanley has some blood trickling from his mouth when he wakes up in the basement after he and Jerry separate Alina and Alisa.
• Cryptz: One of the vampires has what's supposed to be blood coming out of his mouth when he's killed.
• Death Machines: When the three assassins of the title toss one of their opponents off the roof of a building and onto his illegally parked car, blood spouts from the opponent's mouth as the old meter maid screams in horror.
• In The Demoniacs, Paul dies from dropping a giant glass carboy on his head. Before he dies, he coughs up blood that splatters on the inside of the glass.
• In The Departed Frank Costello is gushing blood from his mouth just before he's killed.
• Destroyer (1988): Ivan Moser has blood coming out of his mouth after his execution.
• In The Doctor, William Hurt's title character coughs up blood while leaving a party. This turns out to be the first sign that he has cancer.
• Don't Look: Sebastian starts having blood come from his mouth when he gets stabbed in the stomach by the killer.
• Done in the Fantastic Four (2005). When the bad guy starts discovering his powers, he shoots someone straight through the chest with some kind of electric shock. The injury nowhere near the mouth, but the guy has a stream of blood tickling down his mouth before he collapses, obviously dead.
• Fight Club:
  • Naturally shows up a few times, given all the people getting beat across the mouth. Tyler makes particularly disgusting use of the effect to intimidate a guy. Also turned on its head in the case a bullet-hole in the cheek - does the blood still count if it's not actually come out of the "mouth"?
  • Inverted (literally) with the Narrator's line, "You can swallow a pint of blood before you get sick."
• One of Death's victims in the Final Destination series starts spitting up blood when she's pulled into an escalator — before it even reaches her knees.
• In Forgetting Sarah Marshall, when Peter finally completes his Dracula-puppet rock opera, the titular puppet dies at the end, complete with red silk blood from the mouth.
• Socko from Freaked. Despite being a mutant with a sock puppet covering a human hand for a head, he somehow manages to bleed from his 'mouth' as he lies dying from gunshot wounds.
• In Fruitvale Station, Oscar Grant sports this after being shot. Sure enough, the doctors reveal that he has been hit in the lung and that the damage is so severe that it had to be removed. This proves to be futile, as they are unable to stop his internal bleeding and he eventually dies.
• The Funhouse Massacre: When Laurie saves one of Dr. Suave's victims, he has copious amounts of blood coming from his mouth as a result of the torture.
• Happens at times from the monsters in the Godzilla films:
  • Destroy All Monsters: King Ghidorah
  • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla: Anguirus
  • The Return of Godzilla: Godzilla
  • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II: Rodan
  • Godzilla Vs Spacegodzilla: Space Godzilla
  • Godzilla vs. Destoroyah: Destoroyah
• Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum: When Ha-Joon is looking around in Room 402, a pair of feet floats up to him from behind. The feet are attached to a ghost with a bloody mouth, as shown when it turns around to show its face.
• In Herschell Gordon Lewis' The Gore Gore Girls, a woman is chewing bubble gum, and is blowing a bubble, when she's bashed over the head with a mallet, and the inside of her bubble is sprayed with blood.
• In Wong-Kar Wai's last movie The Grandmaster, Gong Er, played by Zhang Ziyi, spits blood on her white scarf.
• In Gran Torino, Walt Kowalksi suffers from an unspecified, presumably deadly illness (implied to be lung cancer, given his smoking habit), and spits blood at regular intervals during the film.
• In The Great Houdinis, Harry coughs blood when a college student punches him before he has time to prepare himself. He later dies from his injuries.
• The Gunman does a ridiculous take on this by having the protagonist periodically vomit blood – even though he is diagnosed with a form of traumatic injury to his brain.
• In Guyver: Dark Hero, every Zoanoid does this before before dying at the hands of the Guyver.
• Hatched: In the middle of the movie, Mark starts coughing up blood into his hand. It's probably meant to be some sort of complication brought on by virtue of him being a clone of the original Mark with an accelerated aging process.
• In The Hateful Eight, John Ruth and O.B. vomit a huge amount of blood after being fatally poisoned.
• Hayride: While the police are investigating a crime scene, one of them starts spontaneously bleeding from his mouth. Then it's revealed he was stabbed through from the back by a blade.
  • Hayride 2: Another cop has lots of blood coming out of his mouth when Ol' Pitchfork stabs him in the throat with his namesake.
• Hell in the Pacific: Kuroda dribbles blood from his mouth after the American stabs him from behind in an Indulgent Fantasy Segue.
• Hero (1997), an uber-violent kung fu film, have the, uh, hero (as played by Takeshi Kaneshiro) fighting the main baddie. Unfortunately, the villain plays dirty with a concealed wrist-blade, which he uses to inflict a near-mortal injury on the hero making him cough up blood.
• In Heroic Trio almost every fight scene involves one or more fighters spitting up blood. The climax is definitely a repeat offender.
• In Higher Learning, a gunshot victim spits up blood. Sure enough, she rapidly dies.
• Horrorvision: When Dez is looking through the images he got off Toni's computer, he sees an image of a woman with fake blood coming out of her mouth.
• House Shark: Abraham starts bleeding from his mouth when the shark starts eating him.
• Hungerford: When Adam is chatting up a girl at a party, blood spontaneously starts flowing out of her mouth.
• I Am Alone: After Jacob's been infected for about over two days, one of his teeth comes out (likely a result of him being infected), followed by quite a bit of blood.
  • At the end, after zombies breach the perimeter of the building he and Mason are in, the professor has blood coming out of his mouth by the time he returns to Mason.
• Inception. Saito is coughing blood as he's slowly dying during the dreams, including droplets floating from his mouth in zero-G during the Gravity Screw scene in the hotel room.
• Jaws: As Quint gets munched on, blood dribbles from between his clenched teeth and down his chin.
• Jurassic Prey: When the dinosaur attacks T-Bone, blood appears on and around his mouth.
• Kild TV: Some of the murder victims bleed from their mouths, like Michelle and the one cop who bothered to investigate.
• Kill Bill:
  • A slight difference for Gogo: in her case, the blood comes from her eyes.
  • When The Bride finally fulfills the title, a mouthful of blood alerts Bill to his imminent demise.
• In King of New York, one of Frank White's men gets shot during the police raid and coughs up copious amounts of blood.
• In the movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Perry is shot in the chest. Harry gives him a couple of breaths (he probably "learned" CPR from the movies), then pulls away and a stream of blood flows from the corner of Perry's mouth. He got better, though.
• In The Kunoichi: Ninja Girl, a ridiculous amount of blood spills out of Higetsu's mouth after Kisaragi kicks him in the face. Later Shinmu coughs up copious amounts of blood after the diseased man slashes his throat with a katana.
• Blood spurts from Dr. Frankenstein's mouth when he is crushed to death by the Monster in Lady Frankenstein.
• In Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life, the establishing character moment for the bioterrorist/scientist villain Jonathan Reiss is him in a private jet with his clients. He poisons one who snitched on him to Interpol, intoning "this is the sound of a traitor dying" as he gurgles his last, bleeding profusely from his mouth.
• Used to show how badass a secondary character in The Last Samurai was. In the middle of the climactic battle Ujio is shot in the stomach by a soldier whom he kills after an appropriate stagger. Several other samurai come to help Ujio but he unceremoniously pushes them away, spits out a bright red spray of blood and goes on fighting. It takes the Gatling guns to finally finish him off.
• In Lawn Dogs, a man who quite frankly deserves it, is later seen bleeding from the mouth after getting shot in the back by Devon, the 10 year old heroine, who is trying to protect her friend Trent.
• Played for horror in Life (2017) when the creature forces his way down a victim's throat to eat his insides, causing him to vomit globules of blood in zero gravity.
• Little Dead Rotting Hood: A number of people who get attacked by wolves havve blood coming out of their mouths. Often the wolf bites are around the jugular, so this is Justified.
• In Lizzie Borden's Revenge, Vanessa is trying to the others who the killer is when blood dribbles from her mouth and then she topples forward with Lizzie's axe in her back.
• In Lolly-Madonna XXX, Elspeth bleeds from the mouth after she's shot. Later, Thrush does the same when his father beats him to death.
• The Lord of the Rings:
  • Boromir in The Fellowship of the Ring has blood from the mouth when he gets shot by multiple arrows.
  • After being impaled by Shelob in The Return of the King, Frodo starts frothing from the mouth before collapsing.
  • Masterfully done in The Return of the King. Shots of Faramir leading a suicide mission are inter-cut with Denethor casually, and messily eating food. You see Orcs shoot a massive amount of arrows at the men of Gondor... and cut to red juice dribbling down Denethor's chin.
• Main Street Meats: A sunbathing woman has blood coming out of her mouth from Neddy stabbing her through the torso wth gardening shears.
• In Massacre at Central High, blood comes from Paul's mouth as he crashes around the back of his runaway van.
• In The Matrix, bleeding from the mouth signifies severe injury (i.e., falling off a building or taking a beating from an Agent) or death within the Matrix. Unplugging someone does not make them do this, which makes sense because it kills the mind, but does not cause physical harm.
• In Max (2002), the titular Jewish art dealer is severely beaten by some of Adolf Hitler's new followers. The movie ends with him bleeding from the mouth as he lies dying in the snow.
• The opening scene from the Drivers' ed film Mechanized Death features a woman coughing up blood after an accident. Serious nightmare fuel.
• In Moon Child, Sho spits up blood when he is shot by Son. From the position of the bullet hole and difficult breathing, the bullet might have punctured his lung.
• Satine has this as a symptom of her dying in Moulin Rouge!. Justified since she's dying of tuberculosis and bloody mucus is one of the symptoms.
• My Animal: Heather bleeds heavily from her mouth and spits up blood when Richard hits her repeatedly in the stomach when he beats her.
• My Little Sister: Ben has blood come out of his mouth when the Little Sister attacks him from behind.
• In A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge, a partygoer at Lisa's party bleeds from the mouth as he gets trampled to death by the other teens, who are trying to escape from Freddy.
• Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight: Julek has blood coming out of his mouth near the end of the film after one of the twins may have ripped his tongue out.
  • In the sequel, blood starts coming out of Mariusz' mouth when Zosia drives her hand into his back and out his chest, holding his still beating heart.
• Nutcracker Massacre: Bai, the woman Paul slept with behind Clara's back before the movie started, bleeds from her mouth when the Nutcracker slashes her across the stomach with an ice skate.
• In The Odd Angry Shot, the soldier killed in the mortar barrage on the camp vomits a large quantity of blood on Bill when he tries to move him.
• Ouija Mummy: Kyle has blood come from his mouth when Ahotep the 1st lodges the ouija board in his throat.
• Pagan Warrior: Several victims of The Krampus spout blood from their mouths after being stabbed. Additionally Ulbe co coughs up blood after Rollo kicks him while he is down.
• Used in the Foregone Conclusion beginning and ending of Pan's Labyrinth. Possibly Blood From The Nose.
• In The Pit and the Pendulum (1991), blood starts spurting from Torquemada's mouth as a result of Esmeralda's curse.
• In Predator, the title alien hunter coughs up blood (bright green, glowing blood, but still blood) as he activates his doomsday self-destruct device.
• Pumpkins: Starting with Punter Dave, a number of people stabbed by Pumpkin Man have blood come from their mouths.
• In the Bollywood film Rang de Basanti, Aslam coughs up blood after he gets beaten up by the police at a demonstration. He gets better.
• Rampant: So-yong coughs up blood after being infected.
• Razors: The Return of Jack the Ripper: In her nightmare, Ruth sees Jack the Ripper stabs Zack in the back and blood starts coming out his mouth.
• Found in Red Tails. Lightning coughs up blood before his death.
• Redwood Massacre Annihilation: Blood comes from Jen's mouth when the killer tortures her.
• Return of the Scarecrow: Jeffer has blood coming out of his mouth when the scarecrow attacks and kills him.
• The father from The Road coughs through most of the movie, but his fate becomes absolutely apparent when he coughs out a large amount of blood near the end.
• In Rovdyr, Mia is stabbed in the neck with a hunting knife and blood fountains from her mouth.
• In Saints And Soldiers, if a character is shot fatally, they get copious amounts of blood in the mouth before they die.
• Saw II had several characters cough blood into their hands, like Addy and Laura, before Laura dies in Daniel Matthews's arms.
• Scarecrow Slayer: Blood spurts from Deputy Larry's mouth when he is killed; just before he falls in half.
• Scarred: A couple of Jonah Kandie's victims have blood coming from their mouths when they get attacked. Steve spits some up while being carved up with a chainsaw.
• Played with in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Instead of bleeding from the mouth, people spit out coins. (The movie is styled as a living video game.)
• Happens frequently in slasher films, eg in Scream 2 when Phil is stabbed in the head.
• In The Silence of the Lambs Buffalo Bill coughs up some blood right after Clarice shoots him.
• In the film Silver Streak, Ned Beatty's character is shot and dies talking to Gene Wilder with blood coming from his mouth.
• In Slaughter High, one of the hallucinatory zombies vomits a large amount of blood.
• The short film series Sockbaby did this hilariously badly. Of course, that was the whole point.
• In the first Spider-Man movie starring Tobey Maguire, Norman Osborn coughs up blood after impaling himself with his own glider.
• In Stahlnetz PSI, a German crime movie, a small girl is kidnapped for ransom and at some point hit in the face by one of the kidnappers. This is not directly presented as dangerous, but this signifies the danger of her situation.
• The lead characters in The Sting have blood coming out of their mouths after a shooting at a racehorse betting counter. The blood, however, and the entire shooting were all staged, and the characters are perfectly fine and comfortably richer, too.
• In Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Dong-jin coughs up some blood after being repeatedly stabbed.
• Played straight then subverted in the Korean film Thirst (2009), where a priest volunteers for an almost certainly fatal experiment. As the disease spreads throughout his body, he coughs a huge amount of blood over (and through) the pipe that he had been playing. He dies shortly thereafter, but makes a miraculous recovery. Later on, he experiences a sudden resurgence and coughs blood again, but this time doesn't die...well, not technically.
• In Three... Extremes a female character bleeds from the mouth right after she killed the offspring in her womb.
• True to history, Doc Holliday is coughing up blood due to his tuberculosis throughout his interview in Tombstone Rashomon.
• In To Walk Invisible, Branwell Brontë begins to vomit blood not long before he dies.
• Happens from time to time in the Transformers Film Series, such as with The Fallen and Lockdown.
• In Truth or Dare (2012), Blood gushes from Chris's mouth after he fails the 'acid test'
• In the Undisputed films, particularly the sequels, a shot of blood spewing from someone's mouth as he takes a huge shot to the chin, usually accompanied by the mouthguard flying out, seems to be an almost universal symbol that the fight is done, and the bleeder has lost. It rarely goes more than 30 seconds from that point.
• In Vampires vs. Zombies, blood gushes from Mary's mouth after Jenna shoves the amulet down her throat.
• Varsity Blood: When Vikki is shot through the best from behind with an arrow, she coughs a huge gout of blood into the face of Peter. Whom she is having sex with at the time.
• Versus has this happen basically every time anybody takes a hit. By the end of the movie, they take it a step farther by making the hero's blood acidic.
• In Vertical Limit, two characters suffer from pulmonary edema (water forms inside the lungs) after getting trapped inside an icy cave. They cough up blood as a result.
• Viral: The worm flu's first symtom is victims spitting blood up.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit: During the fight in the Acme warehouse between Eddie Valiant and Judge Doom, Doom morphs his right hand into an anvil then punches Valiant with it. Valiant is sent flying, landing on his back and sliding along the floor. Somehow, Valiant survives this blow and remains conscious, but there is a trickle of blood from his mouth. This indicates that although Judge Doom is a 'toon, he's perfectly capable of inflicting severe to fatal damage on living people.
• The Whole Truth (2021): The Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl haunting the house next door is almost guaranteed to vomit up a river of blood in every scene she's in.
  • Putt starts coughing up blood after moving in with his grandparents because his grandmother is giving him milk laced with rat poison.
• In The Wicked Lady (1945), Lady Barbara has a little blood coming from her mouth when Caroline finds her after she has been shot (probably a lung wound).
• The Widow (2020): Zoya has blood coming out of the side of her mouth after having a large amount of hay pulled out of it.
• In Wild at Heart, the girl they find at the roadside, victim of some car crash. Totally unjustified, but a clear signal of Lynch's playing with tropes, and most probably the most chilling instance of "Wicked Game" as background music, ever.
• One of the more squicky parts of the werewolf transformation in The Wolfman (2010). What? You think those pointy teeth just poof into your mouth?! Might also possibly be from internal organs shifting around and what not...
• In The Woman in Black, a girl who drank lye suffers from a severe amount of of oral bleeding immediately before dying.
• X-Men: Apocalypse: Xavier bleeds profusely from his mouth on the astral plane, which means that his mind is dying.
• Yakuza Apocalypse: The film makes abundant use of this trope in many of its action scenes.

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