Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972)

User Rating:

1.9/10   

Director:

Ed Adlum

Writers:

Ed Adlum (writer)
Ed Kelleher (writer)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

They planted the LIVING and harvested the DEAD!

Plot:

Somewhere in upstate New York, a young woman is terrorized by a group of rural farmers primarily interested in a harvest of blood. |

Plot Keywords:

Vampirism | Blood Draining | Murder | Blood | Druid

Cast

Norman Kelley	...	Dr. Roy Anderson
Tanna Hunter	...	Jenny Anderson
Bruce Detrick	...	Don Tucker
Paul Craig Jennings	...	Creton
Jack Neubeck	...	Egon
Richard Erickson	...	Sontag
Cynthia Fleming	...	Queen Onhorrid
Tom Edwards
Lucy Grant	...	Mrs. Greenman
Frank Iovieno	...	Police Chief Frank Spano
Warren D'Oyly-Rhind	...	Ogmar
Joseph McDermott		(as Joe McDermott)
Allan Charlet
John Stewart
Richard Kennedy
Arthur Pyle
Xanthe Ellis
David Scuccimarra
Jon Greenman
James Foley
Stanley Roseman
Eduoard Dauphin
Pat Rriarch
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ed Adlum	...	Victim in shower / Narrator (uncredited)

Directed by
Ed Adlum

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Ed Adlum		writer
Ed Kelleher		writer

Produced by
Ed Adlum	....	producer
Milton S. Greenman	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Beau Eurell		(as Beau Burell)
A.J. Smutt		(as A.J. Smut)

Cinematography by
Roberta Findlay		(as Frederick Douglass)

Film Editing by
Michael Findlay

Makeup Department
Rod Griswold	....	makeup artist (as Red Griswold)

Production Management
Kay Kressi	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ronald Davis	....	assistant director
Ed Kelleher	....	associate director

Art Department
Mildred Green	....	set designer
Mildred Green	....	set dresser

Sound Department
Roger Phenix	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Frederick Elmes	....	assistant camera (as Fred Elmes)
Nathan Joshua	....	lighting technician
Stefan Jovanovich	....	key grip

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Ortrum Tippel	....	costume supervisor (as Ortrun Tippel)

Other crew
Betti Gilbert	....	continuity

Production Companies

• The Farmer Company

Distributors

• N.M.D. Film Distributing Company (1972) (USA) (theatrical)
• Prima Film (1973) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Video Universal Holland (VUH) BV (1983) (Belgium) (VHS)
• Regal Video (1984) (USA) (VHS)
• CMV Laservision (2004) (Germany) (DVD)
• Retromedia Entertainment (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• Thunderbird Video (????) (USA) (VHS)

Runtime:

84 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:(Banned) (video rating) | USA:PG | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Ontario) | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Westchester County, New York, USA

Company:

The Farmer Company

Trivia:

According to the director, most of the cast members worked for a six-pack of beer as payment.

Goofs:

Continuity: Constant mix of day and night shots, with dialog that further demonstrates the mismatches (i.e, saying "Good night" in broad daylight).

Quotes:

Dr. Roy Anderson: Old Jim Carrey dropped dead Sunday.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Ban the Sadist Videos! (2005) (V)

Druids in New York?

The idea that druids in upstate New York that dress in plaid shirts, bib overalls, and straw hats to disguise themselves as farmers is on a par with the Coneheads saying "we're from France" to avoid suspicion. It is just as laughable. This is a film that screams to be picked apart, because it's just so full of stupid things you can barely keep up with them. Let's just say that fizzy blood that looks like soda and a dead white dog that seemingly becomes a bath mat are two of those things. Now the blood sucking machine that's used by the druids to drain their victims is obviously from the same factory as the cat food machine from "The Corpse Grinders" and watching the victims twitch and groan as they are being drained is amusingly disgusting. Some of the farmers favor black hoods though, which is a bit more menacing, and if I were going to make a movie I myself would pick the black hoods over the "Farmer John" outfits. Anyway the plot (what there is of it) is that druids living in upstate NY are going to revive their queen so they're seeking lots of blood to do it. And who is their queen? The woman that lies in the glass case (with no top) or the guy that calls himself Creton, with a gray-frosted mullet? It is rather hard to tell. Overall this is laughable stuff.....and at one time I did find this to be a scary movie but I was much younger and less jaded. It's still a good watch for bad horror movie aficionados, but if you're looking for a great horror movie look elsewhere. 7 out of 10.