christopher-underwood Ambitious low budget fare that despite the obvious enthusiasm of all involved never quite comes together as a whole. The ritualistic Manson like cult opening is promising and certainly much more satisfying than seeing a bunch of hard hatted construction workers running around with white foam around their lips.This should probably have been even more apocalyptic and far reaching or kept down at a much more manageable level and stuck with the hippies in the woods scenario, even if they didn't seem much like hippies. I can't really recommend this except for the fact that the movie undoubtedly has real fans who consider it 'great' and will travel miles to see it. That in itself is interesting and maybe it would be possible to get drunk with mates and sit around and laugh at it. But is that enough?

dworldeater I Drink Your Blood is a cult horror flick that was pretty original for its time and most famous for being the first picture to receive an X rating for violence. When satanic hippies rape a local girl and get the grandfather all wacked out on LSD, an angry kid injects their food with rabies. When the Manson like clan finish consuming their meal, they get sick and go stark raving mad, having the once quiet rural town going hog wild from a rabies outbreak. By today's standards, the violence and gore is quite tame. However, for 1970 I Drink Your Blood broke new ground for this stuff and was quite shocking for audiences in its day. For low budget grindhouse horror, I Drink Your Blood delivers the goods. This very campy and entertaining film has blood, boobs, devil worship and rabid lunatics foaming at the mouth, running around killing people. There is a nod to Romero's Night Of The Living Dead, but I Drink Your Blood kicks it up a notch and is a great and totally outrageous film that horror and exploitation fans should enjoy. If campy, old school hippie horror is your bag I Drink Your Blood will not disappoint and you will shout back, "right on baby" with this one.

Coventry Gory, obscure, raunchy and utterly demented independent cinematic exploitation-trash from the early 70's; that's what I live for! And "I Drink Your Blood" just happens to be one of the most – perhaps even THE most – quintessential titles to answer to this definition! The unquestionably deranged writer/director David E. Durston took as many contemporary sources of inspiration as possible and scripted down a crazed low-budget horror flick that is guaranteed to entertain all fans of the golden "grindhouse" classics. Judging by the title alone already, "I Drink Your Blood" obviously isn't the type of horror film that you watch for its incredibly suspenseful atmosphere (although some sequences are quite intense) or profound character drawings, but to get a lot of horror-related kicks and laughs out of it. This is a pretty sick- spirited puppy in terms of tone and content, but the final result is an often laugh-out-loud funny due to the amateurish acting performances, grotesque make-up arts and errors in continuity. Undoubtedly inspired by the Charles Manson killings, "I Drink Your Blood" introduces a group of drug-addicted hippies who call themselves the Sons and Daughters of Satan and throw devil-worshiping orgy parties in the woods during the middle of the night. The group passes through a little town called Valley Hill. The place is practically abandoned due to the construction of a new dam, but the hippies nevertheless manage to rise amok among people who left behind by raping a young girl and forcing the elderly veterinarian to take LSD. The grandson, who witnessed the hippies' vile behavior, decides to take revenge by processing the infected blood of a rabid dog into meat pies and then subsequently serving them to the hippies. The "prank" runs a little out of control when the hippies become homicidal and go on a killing spree across the area. Hell ultimately breaks loose when one of the female hippies gang-bangs with the construction workers and infects the whole lot of them. The great thing about "I Drink Your Blood" is that you often don't even properly realize how incredibly twisted and offensive it actually is. Many elements are totally bonkers and sick, like the rat-barbecue, forcing the old guy to take LSD, the self-initiated abortion, the dam workers gang-bang and – most importantly – the idea that the whole idea of spreading the rabies was thought up and executed by a 12-year-old kid! The gore is plentiful and outrageous, with multiple decapitations, impalement, disembowelment, stabbings and electric carving knife action! Apparently this was the first movie ever to receive an X-certificate based on violence alone, so I guess that should be enough argumentation for true horror fanatics to check it out. As far as I'm concerned, it's a must- see exploitation/grindhouse classic!

bababear Because I had some excellent chicken enchiladas for supper, I DRINK YOUR BLOOD gets eight out of ten. Probably a little high, but what the heck.The story starts with a group of inexplicably clean cut and well groomed hippies who aspire to practice the Dark Arts. Their charismatic leader is a young man from India. In the group we have one Black man, one Asian woman, one young woman who's a mute, and several rejects from suburbia. Imagine a lost touring company of HAIR. Somehow they go through about two thirds of the film looking freshly scrubbed and wearing spotlessly clean clothes. Amazing.The leader assaults a young local girl. The hippies go into town (what's left of it- it's a charming New England village that's abandoned due to construction on a dam)- and stay at the old, abandoned hotel. Grandpa goes to investigate and is beaten up. Worse might have happened but his grandson, Pete, comes along just in time.Nobody knows what to do about the hippies and, of course, nobody thinks about calling local law enforcement because nobody will buy tickets for a twenty minute long feature film.Pete shoots a rabid dog and then makes his decision. Grandpa is a veterinarian, so there's all sorts of medical equipment in the house. He'll draw blood from the rabid dog and inject it into meat pies, then sell them to the hippies.Now, this was no ordinary rabid dog. The incubation period for rabies can range from ten days to as long as a year before symptoms show. This is a Special High Speed Movie Rabid Dog. The hippies are soon foaming at the mouth and rampaging across the countryside.The tone of the film is, to say the least, strange. Obviously it's a comedy: what else could explain the hyperactive musical score? Most of the characters you expect to survive do so. Most of the ones you expect to meet a grim fate, ditto.I think everyone connected with the film has done better work, probably on stage. Many of the actors give what I think of as stage performances in that they don't so much overact but perform in a way that ignores that the camera is only a few feet away.This is one that could do with an updated remake. The plot idea is sound, especially the fact that the valley will eventually be flooded when the dam is constructed. That's the climax the writer/director probably dreamed about (remember that hydrophobia is marked by a fear of water) but didn't have the money to produce.Considering that I was able to rent this for 99 cents, I say the eight out of ten rating was well deserved.