I Drink Your Blood

I Drink Your Blood

Infobox Film
name = I Drink Your Blood


image_size =
caption = Poster advertising a double feature of "I Drink Your Blood" and "I Eat Your Skin".
director = David E. Durston
producer = Jerry Gross
writer = David E. Durston
narrator =
starring = Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury
Lynn Lowry
Jack Damon
Tyde Kierney
music = Clay Pitts
cinematography = Jacques Demarecaux
Joseph Mangine (uncredited)
editing = Lyman Hallowell
distributor = Cinemation Industries
released = flagicon|USA December 1970
flagicon|Japan July 1, 1978
runtime = 90 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
gross =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:24045
imdb_id = 0067229

"I Drink Your Blood" is a cult horror film originally released in 1970. The film was written and directed by David E. Durston, produced by Jerry Gross, and starred Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury and Lynn Lowry (who is uncredited in the film).

Like many B-movies of its time, "I Drink Your Blood" was a Times Square exploitation film and drive-in movie theater staple.

Plot

Loosely inspired by Charles Manson's "family", the film centers around a group of nomadic Satanist hippies who ride into a small town and terrorize the inhabitants. After an old man confronts the group, he is dosed with LSD. Another young woman is raped. A boy then decides to exact revenge and put a stop to the rampage. The boy (who works at a local bakery) feeds the hippies special meat pies laced with blood from a rabid dog. Rabid, hydrophobic and frothing at the mouth, the hippies go berserk and wreak homicidal havoc upon the unwitting town.

Reception

Because the film was one of the first movies to receive an X-rating from the MPAA (Motion Picture Association) based on violence and some nudity, it took a lot of editing to get it back down to an "R." The film was heavily edited for its content by just about every projectionist in the United States. This was at the invitation of the film's producer, Jerry Gross. There were very few copies of the film in existence that remained intact the way the director had intended. Every single film print had been edited differently.

Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury

The film's lead actor, Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury was a famous dancer in his native India. He had moved to New York City and started his own dance company in the 1950s. On October 25, 1977, during rehearsal in a New York City theater, he fell from the stage into the orchestra pit, which left him permanently paralyzed. After a severe decline in health, he died on August 4, 2003.

References

*imdb title|id=0067229
* [http://www.sexgoremutants.co.uk/spot10.html Interview with exploitation film distributor Bob Murawski] of Grindhouse Releasing


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