"Resident Evil" director Zach Cregger says a "ton of real blood" was spilled on the film, including in a scene where the lead star smashed his head.

Set in the 1850s on the Texas-Mexico border, Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian (1985) challenges all the norms of the Western genre. It revolves around a teenager known simply as the Kid, who becomes part of the historical Glanton gang. Widely ...