"Let all the spirits hear. I am the first born Son of Satan. He commands my thoughts. I speak his words. The Book of the Dead! Sons and daughters of Satan. Put aside your worldly things and come to me. Let it be known, sons and daughters, that Satan was an acid head. Drink from his cup; pledge yourselves. And together, we'll all freak out."Has a movie ever started better? I don't think so. I Drink Your Blood will take you prisoner, stab in the stomach with a fork and write on the walls with your blood!In fact, I watched that opening at last year's April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama in the middle of the night, surrounded by fog and inebriated on a variety of vices. It was a transcendent moment.Horace Bones leads a cult that worships Satan and drops acid. A young girl, Sylvia, watches from the woods but is caught, then raped by the cult members before she escapes. She's found the next morning by Mildred, a baker, and Sylvia's brother Pete. They get her back to her father, Doc Banner, the town's veterinarian. And oh the town - it's been abandoned due to dam project. The hippies break down and decide to stick around.The only food in town? Meat pies from Mildred's bakery, which Horace and family take as they set up their home in a house scheduled for demolition. And when Doc comes for revenge, the gang smashes his glasses and force him to take LSD.So how do you get revenge? Well, if you're Pete, you kill a rabies infected dog and inject the blood into meat pies, which infects the gang and makes them go crazy. They begin to attack one another as Molly runs away, finding the mill workers, who she ends up having sex with all night long until she bites one of the men.Horace goes full-on insane, even more insane than the beginning of the film, attacking two of the construction workers. Only Andy from the group is not infected and he finds Sylvia and Pete. Meanwhile, the infection spreads to the rest of the town. Banner gets impaled. Horace is stabbed by Rollo, the African-American member of the family. Mildred is barricaded inside her bakery and Andy is beheaded before they get in. The Japanese member of the family sets herself on fire. Everyone other than Mildred, her boyfriend Oaks (who comes to save them), Sylvia and Pete dies horribly. Director David Durston worked with producer and CEO of Cinemation Industries Jerry Gross to write and direct this film. He said that "wanted to make the most graphic horror film ever produced, but he didn't want any vampires, man-made monsters, werewolves, mad doctors, or little people." The director couldn't come up with an idea until he read an article about a village in Iran where a pack of rabid wolves infected several villagers, making them insane and homicidal. Dunston found a doctor who had been to the village and that had filmed the evidence. He was further inspired by the Manson family trials.This is the first film to be given an X rating for violence instead of sex. And while originally entitled Phobia, the name change to I Drink Your Blood and pairing with 1964's Zombies, also retitled as I Eat Your Skin, proved a potent blend for audiences. The two movies are almost always thought of together.This film is unafraid to be the exploitation junk that normal people avoid. It's grimy, filthy and ultimately entertaining as hell. It takes everyone's worst fears of the hippies and shows you in graphic detail what happens when those fears come true.

I Drink Your Blood (1970)** (out of 4)A group of Satan worshipers led by Horace Bones (Bhaskar) invade a small town where they decide to stay a few days and drop acid. They end up beating up an old man for laughs but the joke is on them when his grandson makes them some meat pies. The only catch is that the boy has put the blood of a rabid dog so soon the Satan worshipers go on a killing spree.I DRINK YOUR BLOOD became a huge hit when it was originally released thanks in large part to its title. The title and promotional material made you think that you were getting into something highly disturbing but in reality the film isn't all that bad. I use the word bad in regards to how graphic the violence is. The film really doesn't contain too much gore and the majority of the violence are obvious special effects and there's no question that the maniacs running around with white foam coming out of their mouths isn't going to scare anyone.As far as the film goes, it's pretty darn bad but at the same time there's just something entertaining about it as long as you don't take it too serious. I say this because there's some pretty campy moments including the opening Satanic scene and the fact that the Satan worshipers just let the woman go after watching their act. Not to mention how silly it is that they give her grandfather an even worse beating. There's also some campy moments dealing with the hippies on acid and some of the dialogue about LSD is rather laughable in its own way.Bhaskar makes for a good lead considering what the film needed. The rest of the cast fit their roles just nicely but obviously one shouldn't be expecting Oscar-worthy performances. Director David E. Durston at least keeps the film moving at a nice pace and there's enough silly action that never slows down so the film moves along quite well. I DRINK YOUR BLOOD certainly isn't a classic picture but fans of low-budget drive-in films should get some kicks out of it.

I grew up with movies dating back to the 80s, but unfortunately, that's as far back as I got. The 80s may have been a great time for movies, but the 70s deserves a chance to be looked at. There are plenty of decent classics from the seventies. Is this movie one of them? Well, the movie is about a Satanic cult, led by Horace Bones (Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury) who terrorize a small town and a little kid tries to defeat them by making them rabid. This only ends up making the threat worse, turning them into zombie-like psychopaths... yeah, the plot is stupid, but the trailer makes it sound menacing. In fact, the trailer is probably the scariest thing about the movie. I love the music; it's freaking insane. The music's vibes will almost drive you a bit crazy. The movie is rated X for nudity, sex and excessive gore. The dialogue and acting are horrible. It makes little sense, it's hammy, it's ridicules and it's totally forgettable... but not bad enough to not be funny. It kind of reminds me of Night of the Living Dead. So when the cult sexually assault Sylvia, (Iris Brooks) the ******-off grandfather, Dr. Banner (Richard Bowler) confronts them, only to be dosed with LSD. The kid, Pete Banner, (Riley Mills) shoots a rabid dog and takes a sample of its blood, injecting meat pies with it, and selling it to the hippies. Speaking of which, there's a lot of instances of animal cruelty, such as slitting a chicken's throat in a ritual... wait, WHAT?! That part really freaked me out. And, of course, shooting a rabid dog. Well, after being infected with rabies, the cult members become cannibalistic murderers... well, most of them. Some commit suicide before they turn, and to make matters worse, one cultists have sexual intercourse with a construction crew, spreading the rabies to them. Well, that's as far as I'll go with that for now. Oh, one more thing, what's with the title? I Drink Your Blood? Ironically, there's not much blood drinking in this. Well, this movie is also known as Satan's Bande or Hydro-Phobia. Well, this movie may be bad, but it's interesting, to say the least. I consider this to be "The Room" of the 70s, because I enjoyed it despite it's notoriety. The dialogue is ridicules, the story is unique, and it certainly has shocking moments. I rate this a 7 out of 10; it's not perfect, but I liked it.

Durston's 'I Drink Your Blood' was a Grindhouse release alongside 'I Eat Your Skin'. I couldn't get a hold of the latter but managed to find the first. It's not exactly true to its title but it delivers what it promises, for the most part anyway, which is tacky gory fun. I was expecting more gore and viscera but was a tad disappointed on that front as most of it is reserved for the final semi-bloodbath sequence. Also, 'I Drink Your Blood' gets quite slow at times (fast forward is handy in such occasions). I was a little grossed out by the white faeces spilling out of the mouths of the infected. The acting, sound effects, visual effects, cinematography and dialogues are laughably bad. Then again, the movie's titled 'I Drink Your Blood' which is funny enough.