The first exploitation flick to get an X rating for violence, I Drink Your Blood is a low budget gore classic that blows chunks and your mind at the same time. It hit the drive-ins in 1970, one year after the Manson family murders, and was clearly concocted to cash in on the anti-hippie hysteria of the time. But how do you come up with something more shocking than the Manson massacre? Well, I Drink Your Blood answers that question.

A cult of LSD eating, Satan worshiping hippies, led by Horace Bones, looking and sounding alot like Tommy Wiseau, wreak havoc on a small town and end up getting a dose of their own medicine when after eating meat pies infected with the blood of a rabid dog are transformed into flesh-crazed cannibals.

Like a sheet of high-grade blotter, I Drink Your Blood packs enough bizarre entertainment value to last for hours and hours. We can only repeat the demonic invocation of Horace Bones (Bhaskar), 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!”

Released by Box Office Spectaculars, co-owned by Blood Feast auteur Herschell Gordon Lewis, I Drink Your Blood was directed by David Durston who also helmed the first 35mm gay porno film Manhole.

A sad footnote: Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury who plays Horace Bones was a professional dancer who seven years after starring in I Drink Your Blood was crippled in a stage fall during a rehearsal and was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He died in an old folks home in 2003.

Here’s I Drink Your Blood in all its uncut glory.
 

Thanks See Of Sound