I Drink Your Blood (1970)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

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)

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:

This was the first film ever to be rated X by the MPAA based on violence alone.

Goofs:

Boom mic visible: Back home after being dosed with LSD, Doc Banner is sitting at his kitchen table. As Sylvia says, "Come on, Grandpa," and helps him up, the moving shadow of the mike and boom isvisible on the refrigerator and wall directly behind them, to the right of Sylvia's head.

Quotes:

Horace Bones: Let it be known, sons and daughters, that Satan was an acid head. Drink from his cup; pledge yourselves. And together, we'll all freak out.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005)

A twisted slasher version of the Manson Family.

This has got to be one of the cheesiest horror films of the late 60s, early 70s. However I must admit that I do have a lot of fun watching this classic piece of exploitation fare. It is both a shocking horror film, but at the same time, it's camp, mostly due to poor writing, production values, and acting.

It takes place in some Mayberry-like town in the middle-of-nowhere America. Pretty much all the residents have left because they're building a "damn dam." All that's left is some old man, his grandson & granddaughter, along with a lady named Mildred who works at a bakery (and business sucks too). On the outskirts of town are a group of LSD-tripping, Satan-worshiping hippies led by Horace Bones. When they move into the town, the young boy poisons some pies with rabid dog blood and serves it to the hippies. And mayhem occurs and they become cannibals.

When watching this film, you can tell that the produces based I DRINK YOUR BLOOD on the Manson Family. The plot: an LSD hippie cult led by a fanatic leader killing people. Yep, sounds like Charles Manson and family to me. And some of the gore scenes were obviously influenced by George A. Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.

I DRINK YOUR BLOOD doesn't just drink your blood...No, it gulps it down. One of the great early gore films made before my time, it is quite enjoyable. The acting is terrible, but I guess that's what makes it a "masterpiece" among cheesy B-rate horror films. And the score for the film is terrible. It is very early 70s, even some verses sound like the "Batman" theme. For what it's worth, give it a shot.