I Drink Your Blood

Plot synopsis:
The film opens on a bizarre Satanic ritual being conducted by a long-haired hippie type named Horace Bones. Nude and freaked out on LSD, Horace and his small group of cohorts are oblivious to the fact that they're being watched by Sylvia, a young girl observing them from the trees. One of the hippies is pregnant and is not taking part in the ritual; she sees Sylvia and drags her into the clearing, where Horace freaks out over the fact that their ritual has been observed. A more recent member of the group, Andy, admits that he met Sylvia in town and invited her along, prompting Horace to violently hit him. Sylvia becomes frightened and runs away, but two other members of the group chase after her and catch her in the woods, where they brutalize her.The next morning, Sylvia emerges from the woods beaten and apparently raped. She is found by Mildred, the woman who runs the small town's bakery. With Mildred is Pete, Sylvia's younger brother who appears to be about 12 or 13. Together, they take Sylvia back home to where she lives with Pete and their grandfather, Banner. Mildred is sure her boyfriend will know who victimized Sylvia--with the town deserted, the only other people in the area are the construction crew working on a dam near the town. Mildred drives to the dam and informs her boyfriend, who works at the site. He tells her he will look into it.Meanwhile, Horace and his group have discovered that their van is now broken down and useless. They abandon it in the woods and walk to the town on foot. The first thing they see is the bakery, and Mildred sells them meat pies, throwing in a few extra things as a kindness for them. Horace tells them that he and his friends are rock musicians stranded there, and he asks where they can seek shelter. Mildred explains that Valley Hills only has a few residents, most of them long gone. Only she and a few others remain, awaiting the demolition of the town in the near future. Upon hearing this, Horace and the others move into one of the abandoned houses, smashing things and hunting the many rats inside of it for food.Pete follows them to the house and witnesses their bizarre behavior. When he returns home, Sylvia has come out of her shock and informed Banner about what happened to her. Pete overhears and reveals that he knows where the hippies are staying. Banner takes a shotgun and sets out for revenge. When Banner encounters the hippies at the house, they disarm him and brutalize him, forcing LSD into his mouth. Pete, who has followed Banner, overhears the incident from outside. Horace apparently wants to kill Banner, as well as Pete, but a female member named Sue-Lin convinces Horace to let them go, fearing intervention by the police.Banner is tripping when he gets home, and Pete is distressed. Sylvia explains that the hippies dosed him with LSD, and Pete becomes angry. Taking the shotgun, he goes outside the house, but the first thing he encounters is a wild dog that is apparently rabid. Pete kills it and returns later with some of his father's equipment. Using a syringe, he takes infected blood from the dog. The next day, he injects the rabid blood into the meat pies in Mildred's bakery, as a means of getting back at the hippies. Just as Pete planned, the hippies return to the bakery and purchase the meat pies.Back at their house, Horace and the others eat the meat pies. Andy is the only one who does not partake--he is uneasy about the violence he has witnessed and he wants to disassociate himself from the group, leaving the house. The others begin to show signs of being sick, and eventually they lapse into animalistic behavior. Rollo, a member of the group, takes a dagger and stabs another group member named Roger to death with it. In a feral rage, he rushes out into the yard and finds an axe, returning to chop off Roger's leg with it. Horace also turns violent, grabbing a sword and threatening other members of the group with it.A female hippie named Molly becomes terrified and rushes off into the night. Construction workers sent there by Mildred's boyfriend find Molly and take her with them. Molly uses her sex appeal to insinuate herself into their group, and she spends the rest of the night having sex with all of them. Finally, Molly begins to freak out, biting one of the men. Two other construction workers are killed when they venture into the house of the hippies and encounter a now-crazed Horace, who hangs one of them and guts the other.Banner discovers what is going on when Horace attacks Mildred's car and leaves bloody handprints behind. Andy returns to the Banner house and hides out in their barn; after making peace with Sylvia, they are discovered in the barn by Andy, who admits what he's done. Andy explains that he didn't eat the pies, so he is not infected. Banner has informed others about the potential rabies epidemic, and the next day they are joined by Dr. Oakes. Banner, Oakes, and Mildred's boyfriend all discover that the entire construction crew are now rabid maniacs; the entire town is engulfed by them and the hippies, all of them homicidally crazy and prone to mindless acts of violence. Even two seemingly gentle hippie girls, one of them pregnant, happen upon a woman's home. When she takes them in, they wind up cutting off her hand with an electric carving knife. Oakes and the others discover that water terrifies the rabids, and they are nearly killed by a large group of them before they reach a water-filled quarry, which frightens them off.Andy helps Sylvia and Pete escape after they discover Banner dead in the barn, impaled by a pitchfork. While running through the woods, they happen upon the pregnant hippie, who impales herself on a wooden stake after she learns she has rabies. When they emerge from the woods, they discover Rollo and Horace lurking near the bakery; fortunately they become interested in each other, allowing the normals to escape. Rollo and Horace clash, each of them armed, until Rollo impales Horace with a sword. Andy, Sylvia and Pete discover Mildred barricaded inside the bakery, but she is too afraid to let them inside. When she finally manages to undo the barricade, Andy has been beheaded by a machete-wielding madman. Sylvia and Pete retreat with her to the basement of the bakery, but unfortunately they cannot lock the basement door. A rabid gets inside, and Mildred shoots him in the head. They rush out of the bakery and try to drive away in Mildred's car, but it won't start; the crowd of brawling rabids converge on them and overturn the car. Just then, Oakes arrives with a slew of policemen and medics, and soon all of the rabids have been shot dead. Mildred, Sylvia, and Pete all emerge from the car, shaken but otherwise unharmed.

Tags: violence, cult, revenge, sadist

Review:
The acting wasn't too good either, but it's obviously on a low budget, so I can forgive that.The plot is that a group of Satan worshiping hippies come to a small town to wreak havoc on the local population.
What self respecting exploitation and horror fan is going to resist *that* title?When a sadistic, Satan worshipping, hippie gang starts raising hell in a remote and tiny rural community, a local kid fights back by feeding them meat pies infected with blood he'd obtained from a rabid dog.The result is an outrageous, wonderfully gory, trashy hippie horror hoot, directed for maximum shock value by David E.
Along the way, we get to see hands and feet chopped off, a pitchfork through the neck, a hanging, a stomach stabbing, self immolation, a gang member running around brandishing an axe, another one stabbed over and over again, and of course lots of foaming at the mouth.Say what you will about "I Drink Your Blood", but one thing it's not is boring.
The influence of "Night of the Living Dead" is undeniable, but the truly wild 'n' crazy approach of "I Drink Your Blood" is all its own, and the story comes complete with the subtext of concerns of small town America over the whole hippie movement.
All you need to know: satanic hippies- a winning contradiction of course- find an abandoned house, beat up grandpa (who looks very oddly enough like Luis Bunuel), and the grandson gets angry enough to shoot a rabies infected dog, draw out its blood with a syringe, inject the blood into MEAT PIES (yes, meat pies, what kind of meat is meant as an eternal mystery), and the Charles Manson wannabes eat em up.
Yet it is, living up to its hype, a very violent movie, however without a single socially redeeming statement in the process.But unlike some other ultra-violent horror fests of the period (Last House on the Left immediately comes to mind), I Drink Your Blood isn't really out for loftier goals than to shock, and Durston's most significant achievement, if nothing else, is to make all of this bad crap really, hysterically funny, if only in big bursts amid scenes that are also, predictably, dull.
It might even make for a decent do-it-yourself Mystery Science Theater night, as the ultra-violent rabies-infected LSD-satanic-hippie movie was sort of left in the dust during the show's run..
The kid comes up with a brilliant idea for revenge by contaminating some meat pies with rabies-infected blood taken from a dead dog he had shot earlier, and feeding them to the unsuspecting hippies.
A group of satanic hippies called the Sons and Daughters of Sadus after performing some black magic rituals decide to hole up in a small town.It isn't long before residents take notice of the group and their deviant behavior.After hippies beat and humiliate his grandpa a young boy Pete decides to get revenge on the group the best way that he knows by feeding them rabies injected meat pies."Satan was an acid head".Definitely."I Drink Your Blood" by David Durston is one hell of an exploitation classic.The film is filled with cheap gore and crazy scenes of carnage.The script is wonderfully weird and the characters are colorful and gleefully off-beat.So if you are into rabid hippies and construction workers and "Night of the Living Dead" bloody rip-offs "I Drink Your Blood" will certainly leave you speechless.8 hydrophobic killers out of 10..
When a young boy injects a bunch of meat pies with blood from a rabid dog as payback for tormenting his grandfather, the hippies go insane and embark on a gory killing spree in which the entire town in at their mercy.This is quite a shocking and bizarre little film.
This film may seem dated to some, but I think part of it's charm is it's bizarre sense of nostalgia and old-fashioned humor.The film itself is kind of like a cross between NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, but if you're looking for a good shocker full of surprises and gory violence, this is a must-see.
Horror with a small budget, a smaller cast, often humorous dialog, but let me tell you, that on this day, there is evil in the air, and it's awfully humid.A gang of Satan-worshiping hippies, with bad intentions, ends up in a nearly-abandoned town, after their van breaks down.
Evil has just got a double-dose of madness, and it's feeling real bad, and that can only mean bad news for the unsuspecting "town" .Contrary to what I had heard, I Drink Your Blood is not exactly a Lucio Fulci blood bath, or even what I would consider a gore film, in fact, I see no reason why they couldn't have squeezed in an R rating.
By now, what horror-film fan worth his Judith O'Dea Fan Club membership card has not heard of the movie in which a band of hippies dose Grandpa with LSD, and grandson Petey gives them rabies-infected meat pies in revenge?
By sheer chance, a rabid dog turns up and the grandson shoots it; shortly before taking his revenge on the Satanists by feeding them meat pies injected with rabies...The first half of the film is something like your usual trippy seventies exploitation fare, and the second half more closely resembles a zombie flick as the gang develop rabies and go round killing/infecting everything in their path.
While the gore is nasty and somewhat realistic, it also has a great comic edge to it; and this keeps up with the fun style of the film, and unless you've got a serious lack of a sense of humour; I Drink Your Blood will mostly likely provide laughs for most viewers.
Grandpa makes his way home and uses kitchen table wear to constitute a set of horns because he thinks he's the devil.The next day, his grandson decides to get back at the group when he serves them meat pies laced with the blood of a rabid dog.
Very probably inspired by the then-recent Manson murders, the film deals with a pack of itinerant hippies who descend on a small town, terrorize the locals, go berserk when a kid infects them with rabies (they literally froth at the mouth)....
And you have to like any film that features:(1) a multi-cultural band of hippies called SADOS (Sons and Daughters of Satan), which includes (a) an old Asian woman with Tarot cards and (b) a crazed, pistol-waving Native American who says things like "Remember, children, that Satan was an acidhead."(2) an unusually cheesy score ("ooooWEEEEoooo") that sounds like something off one of those Halloween records they sell to kids.(3) Lynn Lowry (who's not in the credits!), future star of David Cronenberg's "Shivers," who whacks off another woman's hand with an electric knife.(4)  Lots of fake-Satanic rituals performed by the aforementioned band of hippies.
Made for next-to-nothing and saying more than most, this little exploitation flick just may be the perfect example of "so bad, it's good."The film is centered on a cabal of Satanic hippies who descend on a small town in upstate New York.
The remainder of I DRINK YOUR BLOOD is a pretty suspenseful adventure, as the now rabid hippies go on a gruesome, psychotic rampage and infect a group of construction workers in the process!
It concerns a group of wannabe Manson hippies who perform the satanic rituals of blood drinking and cutting chicken's throats.
The man's grandson decides to exact revenge on these hippies by feeding them meat pies the next morning that were injected with the blood of a rabid dog.
They attack a local girl so her brother decides to get revenge by feeding them meat pies injected with the blood of a rabid dog, this is where the fun begins.
One little boy isn't going to stand for it though, and infects a batch of meat pies with rabid dog's blood (I thought hippies were vegetarians.) This revenge backfires though, and soon, the cult-and the rest of the town-turn into insane, foaming at the mouth killers."I Drink Your Blood" is a blast of 70's horror/exploitation cheese.
The acting (with an exception to Bhaskar and George Patterson, who relish there roles) is, to put it mildly, poor, the gore is laughable in it's badness (supposidly, a severed head looks like paper machete), and the plot goes beyond ludicrous (watch out for that hose!) Yet in spite of this, it's a real blast, with some great lines ("Satan was an acid head"), a lack of seriousness (there is no way in hell director David Durston meant for any of this to be taken too seriously), and a generally sleazy atmosphere that you can find only in these kind of moviesSo come one and all, watch, and together, we'll freak out!.
The hippies, with the combination of acid and rabies in their blood stream, all freak out and attack each other and the townspeople...the nympho freak has sex with a group of construction workers and they become the core problem...ANYWAY, as gruesome and unpleasant as it sounds, it's actually a funny film, though I'm not sure if it was meant to be a black comedy.
This film has it all: Rabid hippies, impaled pregnant women, severed limbs, cannibalism, animal torture, rape, sex, and drug use...all done in such a clever tongue-in-cheek manor that you can't help but LOVE this movie and, like a train wreck or car accident you will not be able to take your eyes off of it no matter how repugnant the subject matter may be...not for the squeamish but a MUST for all gore-hounds!.
Drink from his cup, pledge yourselves, and together we'll all freak out!" You would think any movie beginning with that kind of great dialogue -- spoken with an Indian accent, no less -- would be a magically awesome experience.But "I Drink Your Blood," a ridiculous film about Satan-worshipping hippies who get infected with rabies, pretty much just goes downhill from there.
The girl's young brother rescues the old man, and exacts revenge by infected a tray of mince pies with rabies (!), only for the remaining occupants of the town to one by one become infected by the disease and begin a rabid, frothy-mouthed killing spree.I thought I'd seen it all when I struggled through s**t-fest Island Of Death, but I Drink Your Blood is another example of how the genius of Grindhouse flashed an exploitative and lie-filled title in my face, only for me to giddily clap my hands in excitement only to be exposed to the cinematic equivalent to an anal raping.
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.
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.
Eventually, a young boy decides to avenge himself upon the group in a rather vicious manner (feeding them meat pies from his family's bakery infected with the blood of a rabid dog!)  and, unwittingly, unleashes an epidemic of madness and murder.The violence (coupled with the foaming-at-the-mouth make-up) is so unconvincing as to be laughable  and, for added queasiness, there's a completely gratuitous scene involving a boa!
I DRINK YOUR BLOOD was badly censored for the best part of three decades, not only by the MPAA and BBFC, but also the distributors.The DVD from Grindhouse restores the movie to it's original director's cut, and is all the better for it.It's a marvelous low budget horror that ranks alongside the likes of THE HILLS HAVE EYES, THE Texas CHAIN SAW MASSACRE and DERANGED as one of the most thought-provoking and eerily entertaining terror flicks of it's decade.The DVD is superb - director's commentary; on-screen cast interviews; deleted scenes; trailers; 2 versions of the main feature; a mammoth stills/posters gallery; some great Easter eggs, and more!The film itself is scary, original, gory and, yes, unintentionally funny in places.
The story concerns a group of satanic hippies who are given rabies infected pies then go on a killing spree in an almost deserted little town.
The boy gets his revenge in a BIG way when he extracts rabies infected blood from a mad dog he killed that night, spikes some meat pies with it at the local bakery, and with a big smile on his face generously gives them to the hippies whom of course suspect nothing.
This is fun, trashy, sleazy, gritty, gory, exploitation goodness - and I love this sort of thing...A group of Satanic hippies invade a small town where they rape a local girl.
Their Satanic, wanderin' ways bring them to a little town on the verge of being completely abandoned; when they begin to terrorize the locals, a little kid gets revenge on them by injecting meat pies with the blood of a rabid dog and feeding them to the hippies, who then go on a homicidal rampage.
He shoots a rabid dog and mixes its blood into the meat-pies that the cult members are to eat - at which point the satanic hippies get infected with rabies and, one by another, flip out to go on a homicidal rampage...This plot outline may sound utterly idiotic, but it is also the base for an extremely entertaining, hilarious and ultra-bloody trash flick that no fan of 70s exploitation cinema should miss.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's also a love story that blossoms in the midst of the carnage, which centers around a young girl who continues to encourage the ardor of her cult-dissenter beau, despite the fact that at the beginning of the film he takes her into the woods to watch one of the sect's sacrificial rituals, which leads to her being brutally raped and beaten by his fellow hippie Satanists.You may have seen movies of this caliber before, but I'm fairly certain that you have never seen anything quite like I Drink Your Blood.
The story is about a group of Satanic hippies who wreak havoc on a small town, a metaphor for the culture clash at the time of the film's release but also a perfect recipe for a "Night of the Living Dead" homage: the zombies are going to get you sooner or later.This is by no means a great film...
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.
With Satan-worshiping hippies being fed rabies in meat pies by a boy getting revenge on their attacking his grandpa and teenage sister, what's not to like?
His grandson exacts revenge by shooting a rabid dog and injecting the infected blood into meat pies he sells to the hippies.
After his grandfather is assaulted by a group of Satan-worshipping hippies, a young boy laces their meat pies with rabid dog's blood and inadvertently turns them into crazed, ax-wielding zombies.A nice addition to the zombie genre, this early 70's trash pic plays the whole thing (thankfully) straight despite its somewhat campy premise and has a few surprising death scenes.
Acting, as to be expected from a film called I Drink Your Blood, is rather subpar though not as howlingly bad as it could be.Well done for what it is and highly recommended to fans of 70's horror and fans of the zombie genre.
I Drink Your Blood starts late one night in some woods just outside the small American town of Valley Hills where the self proclaimed first born son of Satan Horace Bones (Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury as Bhaskar) & his gang of hippie Satanists are holding a ritual as a local girl named Sylvia Banner (Iris Brooks) looks on, she is discovered, caught & beaten up.
Pete is upset at the treatment of his Grandfather & as luck would have it a dog with rabies turns up which Pete shoots dead, extracts some of it's blood & infects some meat pies in the local bakery which the hippies buy the next day.
The acting is also pretty good although I have a problem with Mills as Pete the young boy, he is very annoying as most leading children are in horror films.I Drink Your Blood was an unexpected surprise for me, it has the gore & exploitation elements that I was hoping for but it has a definite polish & exceeded my admittedly low expectation's.
I personally think I Drink Your Blood is an absolute must for exploitation fans & most horror fans will probably also enjoy it on some level, well worth a watch for those with the tolerance for these type's of films..
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.