Blood Car

Plot synopsis:
Archie Andrews is a vegan kindergarten teacher who buys products from Lorraine's vegetarian road side stand. He is developing an engine that runs on wheatgrass with no results until he accidentally cuts his finger and the blood falls in the wheatgrass, which filters to the engine and then causes it to run.
Andrews then tests his car out and offers a ride to Denise, who runs a meat stand and is a rival to Lorraine. After Denise expresses an interest in Archie (believing he can afford 30+ dollars a gallon gasoline), he drives her home, but runs out of fuel. Archie turns to hunting animals, but they do not provide sufficient blood. He turns to larger prey such as predatory people, and eventually, settles for any victim after rebuilding a more efficient blood engine.
The government, which has been tracking Archie's progress, eventually offers him any position he wants, provided he can create more "Blood Cars" after the original is destroyed, and his existence is erased. Archie is concerned where the fuel for the new cars will come from, and the federal agents promise him it will come from invalids, convicted criminals, and the homeless. Archie agrees. Images of Archie's rise as President are cut with the government agents murdering Lorraine, Denise, his kindergarten students, and anyone that saw him developing the Blood Car.

Tags: romantic, murder

Review:
That is what works for "Blood Car." This indie film, directed by Alex Orr and starring Anna "My Girl" Chlumsky and Mike Brune is a fun romp into the camp of yesteryear, serving up generous portions of horror, humor, and political satire of our current affairs.
"Blood Car" bested my expectations with its over-the-top acting, a silly yet disturbingly plausible story (plausible in the most twisted of minds), and some brilliant editing work considering its indie film budget.The film is set in the near future where gas costs hundreds of dollars to fill a tank.
Plenty of humor runs between all the pseudo-violence as our poor anti-hero just wants to make good for the world, while spilling human blood.
Granted it's low budget, the whole concept of the movie is ridiculous but Katie Rowlett was hilarious in the movie."Why don't you go home and write a Haiku about my box!" I had to pause the movie because I was laughing so hard.The ending was kind of weak but overall its one of those great B movies where you say....
Great movie all around.It's obviously not for everyone but for those millions of us out there that love silly comedy horror movies like Army of Darkness style then you will love this movie.It's not often you laugh so hard at a scene where a guy tries to kill a puppy with a BB GUN!!!
The comedy is laugh out loud throughout, plenty of bloody goodness (the scene where Archie taps himself for blood will make even hardened gore fans squirm), and...oh my God...a message that you can sink your teeth into.
What a concept, a comedy/thriller that has a point (anyone who doesn't "get it" can find Hostel 2 out on DVD)!Watching this film is like seeing a good local band.
In this eco-friendly age where wheatgrass is the new cool, clean-cut kindergarten nerd Archie hangs up his teacher hat and goes home to work on a new invention  a car powered by the green slime itself.Archie stops for supplies at the vegan store where a prim and proper bespectacled girl sells him wheatgrass while sketching artistic pornography ("your cum tastes like tofu") under the counter.
As they compete for his affection, Archie accidentally discovers that blood added to wheatgrass makes the engine work a treat.
But having bagged a few quadrupeds there is even more anguish when he realise the car wants human blood or nothing.Blood Car is a crisply-made, ultra low-budget movie that has been compared to the Troma films or those of Russ Meyer and John Waters.
Blood Car was made by talented people who knew their trash movies.
That's right, Blood Car probably ranks as the greatest thing ever made - step aside Hollywood, Alex Orr is coming through!
From the genius and hilarious script, to the minimalist sets and amazing shirts of the protagonist, this movie is pure awesome - anyone who thinks otherwise only attends mindless blockbuster Hollywood films, or is too bitchy and pretentious to appreciate this wonderful addition to the cinematic world.
If there's anything funnier than gratuitous sex, vegans covered in blood, poisonous tarantulas in vending machines and child/puppy/war vet murder, I don't want to know what it is because I would probably die laughing (as I almost did for this film).
The point is, don't listen to these pretentious and/or ignorant pricks who tell you that this film is bad because it's low-budget or because the plot is (god forbid!) original.
It was awful...a stupid movie about sex and blood with no plot at all and a very bad screenplay.
The producers have only a business model in mind, and that business model is based on spending the majority of the movie's dollars on manipulating the public into believing we've created an avante-garde, Indie-funk art-house master-quirk film, when actually absolutely no emotional energy was spent on the script, casting, direction or production at all.
With this understanding, I encourage you to Boycott Blood Car, as it is a fake, phony and plastic virus that tries to manipulate us all into believing we are going to be treated into something like Quentin Tarantino's Kurt Russel masterpiece.
The main character, Archie is a school teacher, who thinks he knows a thing or two about engines.
After realizing that his engine works on human blood, the rest of the movie is about his chase of this dim witted and ugly girl that wanna bang him cause he has a car, and the government chasing him around.
Don't start watching this movie - you'll end up wasting an hour and 15 minutes of your life!.
Let me just say this to those unfortunates who have yet to experience the glory that is Blood Car: there are moments in peoples lives that define them, that change who they are forever, once you have seen this movie, you will be able to break your life down like this: BBC and ABC, life before Blood Car and life After Blood Car. Why are you reading this and not watching Blood Car???
Do something useful with your life, nut up and watch Blood Car. IMDb is making me write more so try this on for size: A car that runs on blood.
Comment on Blood Car. I saw this film last night, i needed to check out the rating of this film just out of curiosity, when i found out it had been given a six out of ten i was very surprised.
Do you get my point, don't watch this film cause you will more than likely laugh, or just get annoyed about how bad it is.
And with the amazing title, Blood Car, we are once again given a film that uses a simple approach to put smiles on the masses eager faces.Eh, to get to the flick, that ramble above wasn't very funny and neither was this movie.
Getting back on point, the dork eventually finds out that blood makes his lil engine run, and he eventually gets laid by some hot meat lovin' chick, and he ends up killing people so he can get laid more and be successful.
While the premise is interesting, there's not enough substance to sustain the entire length of the film, which feels too long even at only 76 minutes.It's a notable achievement for their shoestring budget, but otherwise it comes across as very amateurish, the comedic scenes are forced (as in, "look at me, I'm trying to be funny"), and the characters are really unlikeable (save for Anna Chlumsky, whose portrayal of the girl next door is one of he few redeeming factors of this film).
This movie, on the other hand, wants to come off as laughable and ends up too forced.If Troma's your thing, go for it..
Oh, and it's the worst movie i've seen...so....'Blood Car' sounds like the shitty movie I would view out of boredom or just sheer intrigue, but from the word go, i was lost.
Badly written (the narrator WTF?) badly acted (Everyone in this movie is under 25, including the FBI Agents!!?) and poorly executed, Blood Car ranks high on my list of regrettable titles I've watched.
I Liked the sound of the plot, i thought it be a really funny movie but I did not enjoy this movie at all.I not did found this movie funny at all, all of the Jokes were just really bad, fall flat before then even ended.The rest of the movie, I found it too dull, from the start there wasn't anything really keeping me into the movie.They could have made this a lot better, with some better and funny jokes that worked, the ones in here did not work at all.There is one good thing, i can about this, is that there was one good bloody scenes that, only stick to my mind.The movie dying from the start, then goes on, stick the nail in the coffin even before the movie ended with the last scene, which was not funny on any level.
The absurd idea of a car developed by a vegan kindergarten teacher that runs on blood is inspired.
Sure there are scenes that drag, sure there is an annoying amount of unnecessary four letter words, sure there is too much gratuitous sex, but in the end the film works because of the creativity on display.
It was the title that caught my attention at first, but after watching this horror-comedy-parody hybrid I'm pleased to say that it's a good movie as well.Set some time in the future where gas prices have reached extreme levels, a well mannered school teacher called Archie is trying to discover an alternate fuel source.
Set your expectations down a few notch, realize this is low budget and you'll find a movie that is worth the time..
I personally had great fun watching this movie.From the moment I knew about the title, I went like 'wow what an idea'.
Surprisingly, unlike many good movie concepts, this one was actually perfected into details of context.The main character, is creature-loving vegan, whose job is to teach little kids in elementary school.
When he happens to perfect a car that runs on alternative fuel - human blood - in world where gas is so expensive that driving car becomes a dream, and actually riding a car gives you god-like feeling and appreciation of women...
In his spare time, he's attempting to construct a car that runs on wheat grass, a vegan alternative to excessively costly oil.
There's a treasure trove of great low budget independent gems out there just waiting for the right person (someone who appreciates them) to discover them.Blood Car is one of the best I've ever seen though, and it's not one of the "so bad it's good" style (which are a related, but subtly different taste).
I have doubts bigger than aircraft carriers that Postal is going to be anywhere near as irreverent, controversial, outrageous and over-the-top funny as this little indie gem.I'm also loving the comments from people complaining or saying that they marked it down due to whatever their little personal boundary was that the movie breached, ...********** SPOILERS FOLLOW!
Blood Car. Sick-in-the-head, foul-mouthed, crude-humored comedy satire on the obsession of fuel about a quiet, scrawny, geeky vegan kindergarten schoolteacher, Archie Andrews(Mike Brune)who discovers by accident that his wheat-grass engine in fact works on blood.
Through trial and error, Archie creates a metal fan chopper which he sets up in his trunk for animals with a long plastic tube that feeds blood to the engine..but soon Archie finds that people make his car's engine run longer.
What ultimately motivates Archie to commit such atrocities like dumping the carcasses of a dead old woman neighbor, war vet with plastic limbs(..he actually beats the poor guy into the trunk with his own plastic leg), a bubbly hot brain-dead blond(..he goads her to his trunk by proclaiming that puppies are back there), and black gangster(..and a gas station owner who wishes to know why the black gangster was in Archie's trunk)in his trunk body smasher is the fact that profane and slutty Meat Stand operator(!)Denise(Katie Rowlett)will perform all kinds of sexual acts just to have the pleasures of riding in a car(..she has a superiority complex deriving from the idea that those who ride in cars are simply better than those who can not afford to).
But, most of the film shows Archie escaping endless threats by government suits who wish to commandeer the vehicle so that his blood car can be studied and mass-produced for the marketplace since gas runs 33 dollars a gallon(..this warped comedy is set slightly in the future).
Also, a running series of gore-gags concern the government agents who always seem to foul up either capturing Archie or his car, often ending up as fuel.
SPOILER Or, the final gag where Archie, now perhaps President of the USA, holding an infant, does something with the newborn so that good ole America could still run those cars.
Although it is ridiculous and would never work, in this movie the car actually runs on blood.
And although one can buy gas in this movie, albeit at astronomical prices, you see nobody drive a car.
Alex Orr blatantly uses sex, gore and bad taste to drive large parts of the film and it almost felt that you were in the 80's again with the large amount of breasts being shown on the screen.The plot is simple enough and nothing unusual given the horror genre this film fits into.
"Blood Car" is a witty, refreshing, inventive, daring and surprisingly self-preserved new horror comedy that turned out a hugely pleasant surprise; especially since I set my initial expectations very low (as I always do with new low budgeted productions that try to blend gore and laughs).
The ever increasing gasoline prices are piping hot news at the moment, so it was just a matter of time until a clever scriptwriter would come up with the idea of cars running on blood or other horrific material.
"Mad Cowgirl" is another example of a horror movie that slyly cashed in on current events (the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease), but "Blood Car" is much better that that one, since it remains unpretentious and coherent at all times.
In the near future we'll all be incapable of driving our car since the fuel prices are set at $33 per gallon and continue to increase non-stop.
Archie Andrews is a vegan kindergarten by day, but at night he's an alternate fuel source researcher working on an engine that runs on wheat grass.
Accidentally, Archie discovers that blood is much more efficient than wheat grass and builds himself the world's first and only car with a human meat grinder in the trunk.
The concept of "Blood Car" is indeed grotesque and ludicrous, but so is the entire tone and pacing of the film.
"Blood Car" is definitely a gem to cherish and Alex Orr a name to remember..
This movie is about Archie, a school teacher who is attempting to build a motor that runs on a natural fuel source.
The movie takes place in the future where gas prices are at a ridiculous $30 dollars per gallon and driving is an expensive commodity.
In the end the government makes use of Archies knowledge but with a very dark intention.
Lots of gratuitous nudity, violence, and shock in this little horror flick that really borders more on macabre comedy.As a previous poster mentioned, the female roles seemed much better written and acted than the lead.
Blood Car is set in the near future where the price of fuel are at an astronomical high, the majority of people cannot afford to fill their cars up & as such the streets are empty.
Only the super rich can afford the high cost of fuel but kindergarten teacher Archie Andrews (Mike Brune) has been working on an engine that can powered by wheat-grass with little success, while drinking some Vodka he breaks the bottle & cuts his hand & lets blood drip onto his invention which begins to work perfectly.
Archie realises that instead of wheat-grass his engine needs human blood, at first he cuts himself but it's not enough & as the power he gains from just having a car increases he becomes more desperate & eventually uses a dead body.
However Archie needs more fuel & resorts to killing people to power his car which is getting him lots of attention from attractive girls & the US government who want the blood engine for themselves in order to solve the countries fuel crisis...Co-written, co-produced & directed by Alex Orr this has a terrific premise that I am sure we can all relate to one way or another, in fact in Britain at the moment the price of fuel is so high it's ridiculous & it's going up all the time (although to be fair a lot of what we English pay at the petrol pump is Government imposed tax) with no sign of abating.
So the story of rising fuel prices is obviously a political & social one the actually film itself isn't very good, Archie uses his blood car to have sex with a dirty, yet hot, woman with his addiction to fuel & his desperation to keep his car running fueling his need to kill & little else.
There are some evil US government agents & an ending in which it's spelt out that because Archie controls this new engine & new type of fuel he is basically the most powerful man in the world & even becomes President!
The whole premise is amusing & the parallel that you have to literally give blood to pay for fuel is understood but as a serious horror film Blood Car doesn't work, there are already other types of engines being made like electric ones, ones that run on alcohol & the like so the idea that petrol is our only source of fuel is wrong even now & at only just over seventy minutes long Blood Car still feels like it drags in places.
Once you get past the initial premise then there's really nothing left here at all, I mean the character's are thin, the dialogue forgettable & not that much happens.Blood Car looks alright, it was obviously shot on a low budget & some shots are poorly lit & shot but overall it's not that bad.
Blood Car is never scary or funny & plods along without ever being anything other than a one gag curiosity.With a supposed budget of about $125,000 this was filmed in Atlanta in Georgia.
The acting is alright, the babe that plays Denise the meat stand worker is hot by the way.Blood Car obviously had lofty ambitions & has a neat little concept that I am sure most people will be able to relate to in one way or another but as a full length feature it's surprisingly empty with little incident before a political ending that is nothing more than a rant.