I Drink Your Blood (1970)

Director:

David E. Durston

Writer:

David E. Durston (writer)

Release Date:

December 1970 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

A band of satanist hippies roll into a town and begin terrorizing the local folk. They rape a local girl and her grandpa goes after them...

Plot Keywords:

Satanist | LSD | Rape | Blood | Machete

Cast

Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury	...	Horace Bones (as Bhaskar)
Jadine Wong	...	Sue-Lin
Rhonda Fultz	...	Molly
George Patterson	...	Rollo
Riley Mills	...	Pete
John Damon	...	Roger Davis
Elizabeth Marner-Brooks	...	Mildred Nash
Richard Bowler	...	Doc Banner
Tyde Kierney	...	Andy
Iris Brooks	...	Sylvia
Alex Mann	...	Shelley
Bruno Damon
Mike Gentry

Also Known As:

Phobia (USA) (working title)
State Farm (USA) (working title)
Blood Suckers (West Germany) [de]
Buveurs de sang (France) [fr]
Die Satansbande (West Germany) [de]
Die Tollwütigen (West Germany) [de]
Dipsao gia aima (Greece) [el]
La rabbia dei morti viventi (Italy) [it]
Perros rabiosos (Spain) [es]

Runtime:

90 min | Australia:85 min | Japan:73 min (original version) | USA:83 min (R-rated version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R (edited for re-rating) | USA:X (original rating) | West Germany:18 (cut) | Australia:R | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Ontario) | Norway:(Banned) (video rating) | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Sharon Springs, New York, USA

Company:

Jerry Gross Productions

Trivia:

Before the passing of the Video Recordings Act, a cut version was briefly released by Media Video in the UK in the early 1980s. Although it was never listed as an official "nasty video", it was one of the films featured on a tape compiled by outspoken critic of sex and violence Mary Whitehouse and shown at the Conservative Party conference in 1984. This film has yet to receive a UK certificate.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: When Rollo is about to stab Roger while he is on the table, right before Rollo raises the dagger, you can see a crew member in the far back left of the house

Quotes:

Horace Bones: Stab her!

Movie Connections:

Edited into Mad Ron's Prevues from Hell (1987) (V)

A no gross Jerry Gross production

Wow, talk about drive-in fare. The acting is terrible and the dialog is unbelievable and yet this one's kinda campy in it's own way, forcing me to laugh at it in parts.

This DVD supposedly has the original 'X-rated' (for violence) version that the MPAA gave back in '71, but since there really isn't any graphic sex in it, I don't see much of anything 'X-rated' about it.

A hippy cult's van breaks down near a near-deserted town in upstate New York. The hippies rape a local kid's sister and feed his grandfather LSD for kicks. The grandfather's tripping-out scene is pretty funny.

The kid comes up with a brilliant idea for revenge by contaminating some meat pies with rabies-infected blood taken from a dead dog he had shot earlier, and feeding them to the unsuspecting hippies. Most of the hippies eat them (except for two guys) and they start getting feverish and kill one another. The ax scene where the black guy flips out and cuts off the other hippie's leg looks pretty cool.

Next thing ya know, a construction crew from a nearby dam site have sex with one of the hippie girls and get infected that way. Pretty soon, most everyone left in town is foaming at the mouth, especially the black guy who goes running around wide-eyed, looking like a crazed lunatic. It's hilarious.

The Grindhouse DVD has plenty of extras including an alternate downbeat ending (it's quite different from the one they actually used) where Mildred Nash shoots Roger in the mouth in a fit of rabies rage. She was infected earlier when one of the construction workers bit her while she was trying to escape in the old '62 Ford station wagon.

We also get as extras, 2002 interviews with Lynn Lowry (who's aged gracefully), John McCook, David Dunston, etc. They give a quick history behind the making of this film, inspired by (sur-prise!) George Romero.

I'll give it a 5 out of 10 for inspiring a few laughs.