NYC Comic Con Plans To Have A "Blood Rave" Reenacting The Famous Scene From Blade

Thump – After a healthy wave of buzz on social media, details about the upcoming blood rave in New York City have begun to leak out. Titled Blade Rave, the event is a Comic Con afterparty that will recreate the iconic opening sequence of the 1998 vampire flick Blade, where ravers on a heaving dancefloor are doused in blood from overhead sprinklers as a Pump Panel remix New Order’s “Confusion” plays in the background. Blade Rave is being held at New York’s Terminal 5 on October 9, 2015, and will feature big beat techno pioneers The Crystal Method as the headliner, along withPictureplane, The Dance Cartel, A Place Both Wonderful And Strange, and DJ Choyce Hacks. The party will also include sword fighting, cosplay actors, a chill-out room based on the hyper-modern apartment of Blade villain Deacon Frost, and several secret guests. A similar blood rave is slated to happen in an Amsterdam nightclub on Halloween, with organizers claiming that they play to spray real blood on partygoers. However, New York’s Blade Rave will douse ravers in a proprietary fake blood mix—which we got a chance to check out last Friday thanks to a press preview—thus promising all the horror theatrics without the hepatitis risk.

I’m at the point in my life where I dont like to go anywhere thats a little too loud, has any sort of a wait, and nowhere for me to sit. The popular, loud, crowded bar? Nah. I’m all set. Theres this other place that will serve me the same booze down the block. The restaurant with an hour long wait? Definitely not worth it. The club that costs a thousand dollars worth of bottles just to get in? I’ll be at home watching Netflix.

So suffice it to say the Comic Con Blood Rave is probably not for me. And I’m gonna go out on a limb and say this blood rave probably isnt for most of us. Not when I’m 30 but not when I was 20 either. The Boardy Barn was my Blood Rave except instead of blood it was 1 dollar draft beers and instead of raving it was white people music. I’m sure if you’re a big time Blade fan and a diehard Vampire Guy, Blood Rave is the best thing ever. But I think I’ll be a hard PASS on this event and part of me thinks we should maybe round up all the people who show up to the Blood Rave and throw them in jail for a little Pre Crime. Or at least tag them, like marine biologists do with sharks. So we can track them and keep an eye on them. Cant trust Blood Rave people.

PS – How about Amsterdam? Going HARD in the paint with real blood. Might as well just call that a fucking AIDS Party.