Best American grindhouse Horror flick? Perhaps
Best DVD packaging outside of Something Weird? No Doubt
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The first thing you notice when you pop this DVD in is how much stuff there is. There is a commentary track, interviews and biographies of all the actors and directors, including a fantastic nearly 10 page one on visionary producer Jerry Gross whose numerous credits are like a history of exploitation cinema in itself, from vd scare films to blaxploitation and slasher flicks. The 10 or so previews are long and range from classics like Cannibal Holocaust to the impossibly obscure ( "american hippy in Israel???")
The film itself is amazing. Swings for the fences, runs on all cylinders, etc. You can't really mess with it. the commentary is great, especially the directors preposterous obsession and pride in the medical / scientific aspects of the plot, which can be boiled down to the fact that when humans get rabies they also develop an aversion to water before they die. But he goes on and on about it. and no one cares.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qifMoytCvKM
I like "I Drink Your Blood" because it is outlandish and gruesome. Been a while since I watched it, but doesn't the rabies come from an infected dog? I remember that it is injected into meat pies and then fed to the bad guys, who turn into homicidal psychos. Also remember that the film does not do something I hate, which is let everyone off at the end. As you sow, so shall you reap and the characters find that out the hard way.
I envy you. The copy I have is severly cut...but it's STILL one of the best American drive-in/grindhouse films I've ever seen. It seems to been made to play on the fear in the early seventies of Manson type hippie cults. I really need to get the uncut version! I wonder where all those actors are now...? :question:
LSD!!!!
"Is that what they did to Granpa?"
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rcmerchant- in one of the filmography things, they note that the producer of the movie just told all the movie theatres to cut the movie however they wanted to make them okay to play wherever they were. in the bible belt probably quite a bit, in NYC probably not much. as a result there are tons of different versions of it out there some really butchered.
Is the grandpa LSD scene included in your copy? it's an extra on the DVD
Yes...the Granpa lsd scene IS on the version I have...and I have it on VHS!!! Odd...! :question:
I love this movie. Classic 1970s drive-in stuff. They just don't make 'em like this anymore.