Friday, February 22, 2013

I Drink Your Blood (1970)

Watched I Drink Your Blood for the second time now and my opinion stays the same: bloody, insane fun.

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. He fails and is given LSD. This bothers his grandson and he gets back at the hippies by feeding them meat pies infected with blood from a rabid dog. They turn into crazed lunatics and begin killing and/or infecting everything in their path.

So we are following a cult who's staying in an old out of business hotel. Apart from doing weir rituals they also irritate the locals by their aggressive behaviour. When his grandpa gets humiliated by the cult Pete decides to put blood of a rabid dog in the meat pie of the cult. slowly the last and little piece of good sense that the cult members had disapppears and they head out with with foam hanging out of their mouth looking for their victims. 

From this moment on the film, the soundeffects, the music, the actors and the gore go absolutely crazy. George Patterson (Picture on the right) definitely does the best job in acting like a bloodthirsty, deranged, axe wielding satan-hippie. The gore isn't great but still the film manages to create a filthy, grainy, disgusting atmosphere and feeling. 




I Drink Your Blood absolutely isn't a great film but if you have a fetish for 70's (horror) trash you'll probably like this one. ALERT, ALERT for all you animal lovers out there though. The film unfortunately does involve some animal cruelty (the slicing of the throat of a chicken being the most explicit one)




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