Blood Car (2007)

Director:

Alex Orr

Writers:

Hugh Braselton (story)
Alex Orr (screenplay)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

Save gas...drive Blood Car.

Plot:

In the near future, gas prices are at an astronomical high. One man is determined to find an alternate fuel source. That alternate fuel source turns out to be blood...HUMAN BLOOD. |

Plot Keywords:

Blood | Wheat Grass | Sex | Carjacker | Gun

Awards:

5 wins

Cast

Mike Brune	...	Archie Andrews
Anna Chlumsky	...	Lorraine
Katie Rowlett	...	Denise
Matt Hutchinson	...	Donald Watkins
Marla Malcolm	...	Hitchhiker
Mr. Malt	...	Car Jacker
Matthew Stanton	...	Shot Agent
Bill Szymanski	...	Vietnam Vetran
Hawmi Guillebeaux	...	Whiny Agent
Vince Canlas	...	Agent Shim
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Roudie Augustin	...	Taco Patron
Barbara Carnes	...	Mrs. Butterfield
Jacqueline Flash	...	Archie's Student
Zachary Flash	...	Archie's Student
Jonathan Michael Green	...	Axed Agent
John Grubb	...	Agent
Tony Holley	...	Biker
Neil Huber	...	Shooter Agent
James Hussey	...	Let's Go Agent
Carly Leonard	...	Restaurant flasher
Kasey Libby	...	Bizzaro Thought-Bubble Guy
Alonzo Millsap	...	Student
Spencer Rayner	...	Agent
Roy Rowlett	...	Gas Station Attendant
Adam Sanders	...	Agent
Ted Sapp	...	Map agent
Robert Sterling	...	Couple in horror
Steve Warren	...	Creepy Old Man (scenes deleted)
Heather Young	...	BBQ Waitress

Runtime:

USA:76 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Company:

FWW Films

Goofs:

Continuity: After Archie shoves the car jacker into the trunk, the would-be thief shoots a hole in the lid through which his blood squirts as he is made into 'fuel'. The hole, and the rag Archie uses to block it, are no longer visible when Archie throws the crippled veteran into the trunk, but reappear later in the film when he pulls out the rag so that the car will run out of 'gas'.

Quotes:

Archie Andrews: Puppies... You killed that girl with puppies... Things are changing man, get it together!

Has its moments, but overall, it's not all that funny

Archie is a kindergarten teacher who is trying to invent an engine that runs on wheat grass. With gas at $32 a gallon, no one drives anymore. One day he accidentally cuts himself & when the blood gets into the wheat grass the engine starts and runs. Now all Archie, a vegan, has to do to test his engine, is kill a bunch of squirrels, birds, and even a few dogs, as we see him stalking the woods with his BB gun. But what works best, is humans, because there's obviously, more blood. So Archie rigs up a fan with knife blades in the trunk, and pop in a car-jacker, a disabled war vet (less the plastic arm & legs) and the occasional hitch hiker, and the car runs just fine.

Archie has had a sort-of relationship with Lorraine, who runs the "Veg-table" stand at the playground, and from whom he's been buying his wheat grass. As soon as he has a car, he's pounced on by Denise, who runs the Meat stand at the playground right across from Lorraine. In exchange for getting to ride in a car Denise provides Archie with plenty of wild & kinky sex. In fact, since he has a car, ALL the girls want Archie. But so do the feds, who have been spying on him all along & THEY want the car. Of course, a few of them do wind up in the trunk but eventually Archie is apprehended, only to find that he's more a hero than a fugitive.

This has a few laugh-out loud moments, and most of it is definitely in bad taste, all of which is fine with me. But the dark humor isn't quite enough to sustain the whole film, and a lot of it just kind of falls flat. Not really a bad effort but still, it's kind of amateurish. Some may, of course, like it more than others. 5 out of 10.