Mortal Kombat is infamously violent. In 1993 it sparked congressional hearings that led to the creation of the ESRB; in 2019 it introduced fatalities that were so completely bonkers it required multiple paragraphs to describe them. My guess is that you won’t see anything quite as over-the-top as Kabal’s finisher in the upcoming Mortal Kombat film, but the good news for fans is that it isn’t shying away from the splatter.
“I don’t know the gallon number, but I’ve seen drums of blood sitting around,” director Simon McQuoid told PC Gamer sister site Cinemablend.
Lewis Tan, who plays MMA fighter and presumptive hero Cole Young, added, “It respects the game, let me tell you that.”
You know it’s a good sign when the bloodshed is measured in units normally reserved for things like filling up semi trucks, but the site went further and did the math: An adult human body typically has up to 1.5 gallons of blood flowing through it, so if you assume the drums in question contain around 52…