I Drink Your Blood

 (1970)

by Tuna

Original print ad from the drive-in double feature.

A group of acid-dropping satanic hippies have car trouble, and walk to the nearest town, which is mostly deserted while a dam is being built. A bakery is still open because the woman who owns it is doing the nasty with the foreman of the dam construction. The nasty hippies walk into town, buy some baked goods, then discover that the town is deserted, and decide to move into a boarded-up hotel. To their delight it is full of rats, thus providing them with hours of hunting and frolicking pleasure.

An elderly gent discovers that the hippies are the same ones who molested his granddaughter when she accidentally saw their satanic ceremony, so he heads over to the hotel with a shotgun to teach them some manners. They easily subdue him and feed him acid. His young grandson takes a dim view of this grampa violation, and comes up with the perfect revenge plot. He goes out and shoots a convenient rabid dog, injects the dog's blood into a dozen meat pies in the bakery, and sells it to the group the next morning.

Now the story really gets going, with a rabid acid-eating satanic hippie cult.

I Drink Your Blood is a charmingly quirky little over-the-top horror offering. If you like a little nudity with your gore, this fills the bill nicely, and does provide some genuinely creepy moments.

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Our Grade:

If you are not familiar with our grading system, you need to read the explanation, because the grading is not linear. For example, by our definition, a C is solid and a C+ is a VERY good movie. There are very few Bs and As. Based on our descriptive system, this film is a:

C

An excellent example of the more demented strain of drive-in films.

NUDITY REPORT

  • Most of the nudity is from Iris Brooks, who shows full frontal and rear. Jadine Wong shows breasts as a devil sacrifice, and Lynn Lowry shows her rear.

THE CRITICS AND ACADEMIES

There are no major reviews online, but IMDb links to reviews from about two dozen genre-specialty sites.

 

THE BOX OFFICE

Unknown. (Drive-in circuit.)

 

THE PEOPLE

   
5.4 IMDB summary (of 10)
   

I Drink Your Blood DVD Uncensored Version 1970

 Available from RLDVDs.com in an all-region PAL

This was the first film to receive an X rating for gore. When drive-ins started pulling it, the producer told them to recut it any way they wanted to make it acceptable to local community standards. This means that there were more than 200 prints floating around, all cut differently. This particular version, is complete and uncut, including two never before seen clips, and is loaded with special features, including:

  • Commentary
  • Deleted Scenes
  • I Drink Your Blood Show making of (28:52)
  • Outtakes
  • Stills Gallery
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Radio Spot