When Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell were raising money for The Evil Dead, an old distributor told them “I’m gonna give you guys a piece of advice. If it’s a horror movie, you’ve gotta keep the blood running down the screen. You’ve gotta have blood, if it’s a horror movie, and a lot of it.”. Well, that’s exactly what they did. They splattered gore across actors, walls and lenses.

Horror has a rich history of gore, with many films providing more blood and guts than you could wave a crazed axe at. And some films cover their stars in so much gore, that it’s beyond horrifying. We look at some of the bloodies moment in horror history that doused it’s stars. Here is Actors Covered in Blood – 10 Films That Got Messy.