pip
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The body shunts blood to the brain at the detriment of other organs. His body would have been keeping as much flow to the brain as possible. The arteries are very muscular. They create their own pressure, so while the ceiling might not happen, there would have been some spray if he was on his back. We don't really see evidence of spray on the carpet.
Hemodynamically speaking, I think he was in severe hypovolemic and cardiogenic shock (and pericardial sac hit too so he would have been starting to tamponade as well) before the throat slashing happened. Even though his vessels would have been clamped down to shunt blood to vital organs, he just didn't have enough pressure to really spray much blood as the carotids were cut. He merely bled out massively on the carpet with what little pressure he had left.