Last Friday night, Oct. 10, 2015, hundreds of people had nothing more worthwhile to do than to pay money for tickets to a “Blood Rave” at Terminal 5 in New York City, where at midnight, they were sprayed and drenched in fake blood.
Scott Heins reports for Gothamist, Oct. 10, 2015, that the blood rave was inspired by Wesley Snipes’ 1998 vampire movie, Blade.
The rave was put on by BBQ Films and tied to the weekend-long NYC Comic Con. Featured at the rave was a live action performance of scenes from Blade, with ticket-buyers encouraged to dress the part of vampires.
Just before midnight, a squadron of technicians suited up with body-mounted sprayers surrounded the crowd and, on cue, soaked the writhing masses with synthetic blood.
Numerous faux-gore-soaked attendees said they had seen Blade and its sequels over a hundred times. But some attendees admitted to being there strictly for the rave: Briah Scott and Rebecca Murdocca, who had made the trip from Boston for the event, said they had never even seen the films.
Asked to sum up the entire Blood Rave experience, Elisabeth Danyi of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania smirked. “Bloody awesome.” Beside her, fellow Pennsylvanian Catherine Kaetz grinned while calling the rave “excitingly slimy.”
Here are some more pics from the rave — scenes from Hell:
2 Timothy 3:1-5
But know this,
that in the last days
perilous times will come:
For men will be lovers of themselves . . .
blasphemers . . . unholy . . .
without self-control . . .
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God . . .
And from such people turn away!
~Éowyn
