DVD of The Week - I Drink Your Blood

“Let it be known, sons and daughters, that Satan was an acidhead! Drink from this cup, cleanse yourselves, and together we’ll all freak out!”

and so starts this classic piece of drive-in fare from 1971.It was often featured on a double bill with another film titled "I Eat Your Skin" but Blood was the one that delivered the exploitation goods in spades.

The movie starts out with a group of devil worshipping Manson type longhairs rolling into a small rural town one day and taking up residence in an abandoned house. The group is led by a character that resembles Tonto on drugs rather than Charlie Manson.
While in the house they pass time chasing down rats, cooking them up over an open fire, and heartily consuming them . Lets see the Orkin man top that type of extermination!

After this the fun starts when the local crusty old man comes by to give them "what for" and he ends up getting some LSD shoved down his gullet by this fun loving crew. He stumbles back home to his grandkids and in one of the choice scenes of the film he "turns on..tunes in..and drops out" at the kitchen table while holding salt & pepper shakers to his head.

This raises the ire of his little grandson who decides to exact revenge on the longhairs by injecting meat pies in his sisters bakery with blood he withdraws from a rabid dog he has just killed. What an enterprising tyke this kid is!

After Tonto and friends wolf down the meat pies it doesnt take long for them to begin foaming at the mouth and start attacking the rest of the town. Before you know it the whole population of Smalltown USA is transformed into foaming lunatics and ripping each other apart limb from limb (literally).

All I can say is that they dont make movies like this anymore. No studio would have the balls put out a film like this nowadays and thats the main reason today's movie industry just flat out sucks.

Kudos to Grindhouse for the superb job they did putting this DVD together.The transfer is fantastic and there are more extras on here than most big budget releases. The best extra is the collection of original trailers for several other exploitation movies of the era such as CAT IN THE BRAIN, THE BEYOND, AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL, COPKILLERS, THE TOUGH ONES, and MASSACRE MAFIA STYLE.
These trailers alone are better than some of the full length crap being shown at the local multiplex.

Dedicated to Shadow

I havent posted in awhile and figured today would be a perfect time to start by posting a dedication to my dog Shadow who succumbed to cancer this week ( a few months short of her 11th birthday) . She will be greatly missed but.. myself and my family are relieved to know that the suffering she was experiencing was short and at an end.

Things we will miss:

The Elvis Presley sneer

Shadow greedily slurping out of the greasebucket on the offset.

Her ability to clear a room in seconds flat with nuclear level gas attacks.

Chasing any vermin with balls big enough to enter her domain (the backyard) and
coming back victoriosly with a mouthful of bunny fur.

3 foot leaps to catch in mid air lightning bugs, bees or anything else with wings with one snap of those famous Boxer crodile jaws.

Dozing 12 inches from a lit firepit on those balmy summer nights without catching her fur on fire.

Sitting out in the yard and keeping me company on those 90+ plus hot summer days when no one else in their right mind will venture outside with me .

Keeping me company on those long overnight bbq cooks. I do believe Shadow could have smoked a butt or brisket by herself now.

Sliming guests (especially those with black pants on)

Traumatizing my daughter by scarfing down her entire bag of Halloween candy she collected trick or treating

Eating all the Xmas baked goods off the dining room table..this happened annually I might add


There are many more but these are the ones that come to mind first. She was my close companion and will be missed very much.
This post is for you Shadow..see you in the next life my friend.