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Title: I Drink Your Blood (2006) |
Review of I Drink Your Blood
- Sons and daughters of Satan: Let it be known that this is the first and only uncut, authorized release of David Durston's I DRINK YOUR BLOOD. Restored in all its acid-crazed glory, this `70s horror classic is now more gruesome and depraved than ever before--accept no substitutes!
Originally released in February 1971, I DRINK YOUR BLOOD was one of the first motion pictures to be rated X for violence. Aiming to outdo NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, producer Jerry Gross instructed writer/director Durston to discard all of the old monster-mash cliches and shoot straight for the gut with maximum shock value and gore. The result was pure American drive-in genius. Even after 30 years, IDYB still holds up as one of the most entertaining and wildly demented movies of its kind.
Between the bad-taste instincts of exploitation legend Gross (who gave the film its lurid title and distributed it on a double-bill with an cheap black-and-white zombie film he'd rechristened I EAT YOUR SKIN- a.k.a. ZOMBIE, VOODOO BLOODBATH, 1964) and Durston's twisted imagination (rabies, meat pies, LSD, hippie maniacs, construction workers foaming at the mouth--call the Red Cross!), I DRINK YOUR BLOOD plays like a double-barreled shotgun blast, a sugar fix for gore freaks. Just when you think Durston can't push the delirium any further, somebody drags a dead goat across the screen...or an old man in long underwear pukes up his dentures while being strangled...or an electric carving knife strays from a side of ham with disastrous results...or...well, you get the picture.
Unfortunately, the MPAA didn't appreciate the effort. Graphic scenes of bodily dismemberment, multiple stabbings, self-immolation, barbecued rats, gang-bang sex, gut-spilling, decapitation, and the hara-kiri stake impalement of a pregnant woman's stomach all seemed to upset the censors for some strange reason. Ever the exploitationeer, Gross sent the movie out uncut anyway, resulting in pandemonium. With the ratings board cracking down on offenders, Cinemation panicked and prints of the film were hacked to pieces by everyone from projectionists to the local morals squad. The R-rated print seen in most theaters (and on previous, inferior video releases) lacks a crucial plot point and barely makes sense. Despite these trials, I DRINK YOUR BLOOD was a smash success for Gross and even managed to impress a few critics who were unperturbed by the day-glo ad campaign announcing "2 Great Blood-Horrors To Rip Out Your Guts!" The L.A. Times' Kevin Thomas gave I DRINK... a rave, as did then-unknown Joe Dante, who praised it in the pages of FILM BULLETIN. The film even captured a prize at the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival in Paris.
Words just can't do this movie justice. Like a sheet of high-grade blotter, this DVD of I DRINK YOUR BLOOD packs enough bizarre entertainment value to last for hours and hours. In closing, we can only repeat the demonic invocation of Horace Bones, who tells his followers in the movie's opening scene: "Satan was an acid-head. Drink from his cup. Pledge yourselves, and together we'll all freak out!"
SPECIAL FEATURES
-New digital video and audio restoration of the original uncensored director's cut
-4 NEVER BEFORE SEEN deleted scenes including the blood-drenched ending deemed too disturbing for 70's audiences!
-Provocative audio commentary by director David Durston and star Bhaskar
-Revealing on-camera interviews with stars Lynn Lowry, Tyde Kierney and Jack Damon
-The original theatrical trailer and radio spots
-Extensive gallery of stills and poster art
-Rare and shocking film of Bhaskar performing THE EVIL KING COBRA DANCE
-Liner notes by reknowned horror journalist David Szulkin (THE MAKING OF LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT)
-Psychedelic day-glo packaging actually glows under a black light!
-Spectacular and gory animated menus, comprehensive filmographies and biographies, and other surprises
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Comments for I Drink Your Blood
- Posted on 2008-02-20
They're all UNCUT!!!
I just got my copy of this movie and noticed that the back artwork was a bit different from the one shown on amazon. DON'T WORRY! All the text from my version and the shown version are the same, and the disc is the same design as well, which leads me to believe that both the Fango and this version are the same.
The DVD itself is great. It comes with two poster replicas (a small foreign release and a large fold-out american poster), a little bit of information on the film, and all the extras you could stand. There's also a few funny easter eggs (including a very special song from the director himself!), all of which you can find here: http://www.gamewinners.com/dvd/IDrinkYourBlood.htm
Great movie w/ a wonderful job on supplements!
Score: 5
- Posted on 2007-11-22
Possibly the best movie about rabies-infected satanic hippies on a killing spree ever.
I Drink Your Blood is possibly the best movie about rabies-infected satanic hippies on a killing spree ever made, and it is my favorite American grindhouse/horror/drive-in flick......word's cannot do this little gem of an American horror film justice.
The plot is a about a group of satanic hippie's that costantly drop acid and perform satanic ritual's who come to a small town, and piss off the wrong little boy by forcing his grandpa to take acid. The little boy then get's revenge on them by taking blood from a dead dog he found infected with rabies, and secretly putting it in their meat pie breakfast. They all slowly start to go insane, killing each other off, and go on a rabie's infected rampage of murder and rape. If that does not sound like this coolest movie premise ever to you.........then I don't know what does?
I Drink Your Blood play's out like a comedy most of the time (like my review's) with ridiculous subject matter, hilarious performances, over the top gore effect's, and is one of the most entertaining movie's I have ever seen. It is also (supposably) the first movie to get an X rating in America and I can't recommend this movie enough.
I Drink Your Blood contain's all the essential grindhouse/drive-in elements:
- Rat barbecue's
- Gang rape
- Rabie's infested satanic hippies
- A grandfather that has a bad trip
- Abortion
- Over the top gore
- Meat pie's
- More rape
- Self immolation
- Chicken beheading's
- Decapitation
- More gore
- Satanic ritual's
This Grindhouse Releasing release is (like alway's) amazing. They really went the extra mile to make sure this cult-classic got the release it deserve's. Included is a full director's commentary, director's cut of the film, deleted scene's, interview's, trailers, there is even a full length version of I Eat Your Skin as an easter egg! If you go on the special feature's page it even has an axe that when you click on, chop's one of the character's in half!.....Pretty sweet (Just to give you an idea of the extent they put effort into making this a good release). Thank you Grindhouse for releasing an amazing print of an amazing movie. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Score: 5 - Posted on 2007-07-17
Drink This Blood - Its Rabid
I will keep this nice, short, and sweet. This is one of the greatest grindhouse gore flicks of its time. It came out just after the Manson murders, so all of those nice peace loving hippies have become Satanic, Acid Eating, murder cult hippies. They even stuff grandpa full of acid. Acid not being enough of a trip. The hippie cultist go on a rabies trip after eating some yummy pies with bad dog blood injected inside. This movie has sights and sounds that will not be easily forgotten, so cook up a nice meatpie and enjoy an experience that may very well turn your stomach. Wonderful!
Score: 5 - Posted on 2007-05-26
Welcome to the original GRINDHOUSE
Movies like this are the reason why i turn on my TV, the only problem with this film is that it only appeals to Hardcore-70's Horror-Cult fans, and being one myself i just love it.
Score: 5 - Posted on 2007-01-02
bizzare, zany, 70's exploitation classic!
after seeing the trailer for i drink your blood on the cannibal holocaust dvd, i wasnt to eager to see this movie. it looked like a home movie. then a couple days ago i was at fye in the zanesville mall and i saw i drink your blood. it cost less than it did on amazon so i decided to pick it up. after my first veiwing of i drink your blood i was still kind of deciding if i liked the film or not. i watched the film again and decided that i really enjoyed it. the story involves a group of satanic hippies who get infected with rabies and start infecting a small town. then all the crazy, rabid townsfolk and hippies go on a killing spree. what makes the film so enjoyable is that it's so over the top and bizzare. some of the musical effects are just really strange sound effects. the film was apparently one of the first films to earn an x rating for violence alone, but the film isnt all that violent by todays standards. the special effects arent any thing special, mostly just limbs being hacked off. cheesy effects aside, the film is still enjoyable and fun and still resonably violent for its time. i drink your blood is definately worth picking up.
Score: 4
