"I Drink Your Blood" - Wow, what an awesome title is that? And not only the title is cool! David E. Durston's "I Drink Your Blood" of 1970 is a remarkably weird, gory, sleazy, cheesy, hilarious and totally awesome grindhouse feature with a deserved cult status among exploitation lovers.
This plot outline may sound utterly idiotic, but it is also the base for an extremely entertaining, hilarious and ultra-bloody trash flick that no fan of 70s exploitation cinema should miss. The leader of the satanic hippie cult, Horrace Bones was, of course, inspired by Charles Manson, whose 'Family' committed their terrible murders in the year before this movie was released. Apart from the murderous psycho Horrace, the rest of his illustrious cult is also quite peculiar. The little town where the story takes place is furthermore full of redneck miners (who were, quite possibly, also played by miners) who soon join in the rabid bloodshed fun. Most of the performances are very amateurish, which even increases the grindhouse feeling and makes the film more fun. Even the score fits in greatly with the rest of the film, although the music is often out of place (or probably for this reason).
It is hard to explain what exactly makes this film great - VERY blood-thirsty for the early 70s, this is a movie that must be seen. In case you don't like low-budget exploitation yo should probably avoid this, but in case you are a lover of rancid 70s grindhouse films like myself, yo can not afford to miss the blood-thirsty, gory fun and the many laughs this film provides. In Short - "I Drink Your Blood" is a flick that I highly recommend to any of my fellow lovers of gory exploitation flicks from the 70s!
- SPOILERS! - Trouble comes to a little town in form of a totally wacko cult of satanic hippies, lead by the demented Horrace Bones (Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury), a Native American Charles Manson. The LSD-addicted group, that furthermore includes a huge black guy named Rollo, an Asian woman who is a medium, a mute girl and a few others, hold of some bizarre rituals and molest a local girl (it's not quite clear whether they rape her or just beat her up). When the girl's grandfather wants to take them to task, he gets beaten up and drugged by the satanists, which makes his little grandson furious enough to make an (also quite devilish) plan. He shoots a rabid dog and mixes its blood into the meat-pies that the cult members are to eat - at which point the satanic hippies get infected with rabies and, one by another, flip out to go on a homicidal rampage...
This plot outline may sound utterly idiotic, but it is also the base for an extremely entertaining, hilarious and ultra-bloody trash flick that no fan of 70s exploitation cinema should miss. The leader of the satanic hippie cult, Horrace Bones was, of course, inspired by Charles Manson, whose 'Family' committed their terrible murders in the year before this movie was released. Apart from the murderous psycho Horrace, the rest of his illustrious cult is also quite peculiar. The little town where the story takes place is furthermore full of redneck miners (who were, quite possibly, also played by miners) who soon join in the rabid bloodshed fun. Most of the performances are very amateurish, which even increases the grindhouse feeling and makes the film more fun. Even the score fits in greatly with the rest of the film, although the music is often out of place (or probably for this reason).
It is hard to explain what exactly makes this film great - VERY blood-thirsty for the early 70s, this is a movie that must be seen. In case you don't like low-budget exploitation yo should probably avoid this, but in case you are a lover of rancid 70s grindhouse films like myself, yo can not afford to miss the blood-thirsty, gory fun and the many laughs this film provides. In Short - "I Drink Your Blood" is a flick that I highly recommend to any of my fellow lovers of gory exploitation flicks from the 70s!