Watched this ultra torture porn at the weekend and actually enjoyed it. But the (copious amount of) blood was pink. Or has my red / green colour blindness got worse?

Why pink?

there are suggestions that its was either pressure from the sensors, or at least done to appease the sensors. Seemingly there are versions of the film floating about where the blood isn’t pink.

Eh? What else could a fluid possibly be spraying from someones jugular, regardless of whether its pink, or red?
Or does the colour somehow change the intent?

I’ve never seen anything that confirms that its a censorship issue – its just what has been suggested. Obviously the colour choice would have been made during production, long before any censors see it, so it could only have been done to pre-empt censorship, perhaps in the context of 3D being that much more emersive that you need counter that with something more cartoony. It might just be a stylistic choice – pretty much all movie gore is – blood varies from scarlet to black depending on the aesthetic being conveyed, its depiction so far removed from fact that if depicted blood and guts naturalistically it wouldn’t be believable to most of the audience.

The big battle in Kill Bill part 1 with the Crazy 88 was converted to B&W due to the amount of blood in order to get past the censors. Showing people getting sliced to death is ok in the censor’s eyes, as long as it’s in B&W 😆

Colour versions of the scene were included in other countries, but not the UK version.

I don’t think it’s real blood. Sorry if that spoils it for you.

Did you enjoy it more because of the pink blood?
Maybe there’s a hitherto unrecognised sado masochistic slasher/slightly gay demographic the film studios are trying to appeal to.
“I’m going for a slash”
“oooooh can I watch and come?”

I would’ve thought it detracts from the high quality of the film – I’d be thinking, “Hmm..why’s that blood pink?” instead of “CORRRR!! BLOOOD!!!”

Maybe it was a caveat from the censors.

I remember the “blood” in Sin City being white but think this was a stylistic decision rather than a pander to the censors.