May 19, 2022
I DRINK YOUR BLOOD is quintessential exploitation horror. It was
made specifically to compete with the graphic violence on display
in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, it was sold as a double feature with I
EAT YOUR SKIN, a film made almost a decade earlier and never
distributed, and writer/director David E. Durston went on from it
to make hardcore gay pornography before leaving filmmaking for
three decades.
When a group of LSD-addled, devil-worshipping hippies terrorize the
residents of a small town, a young boy exacts horrific revenge by
feeding them meat pies injected with rabies. It isn’t long before
everyone goes mad and all manner of carnage ensues.
The first film to get an X-rating by the MPAA for violence alone,
and heavily censored upon release, I DRINK YOUR BLOOD is 1970s
exploitation horror at its best.