I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

A group of satanic hippies called the Sons and Daughters of Sadus after performing some black magic rituals decide to hole up in a small town.It isn't long before residents take notice of the group and their deviant behavior.After hippies beat and humiliate his grandpa a young boy Pete decides to get revenge on the group the best way that he knows by feeding them rabies injected meat pies."Satan was an acid head".Definitely."I Drink Your Blood" by David Durston is one hell of an exploitation classic.The film is filled with cheap gore and crazy scenes of carnage.The script is wonderfully weird and the characters are colorful and gleefully off-beat.So if you are into rabid hippies and construction workers and "Night of the Living Dead" bloody rip-offs "I Drink Your Blood" will certainly leave you speechless.8 hydrophobic killers out of 10.

Certainly Charles Manson deserves to be in prison the rest of his life, not just because of the murders committed by his "family" but for inspiring a bunch of movies about lethal Hippies, such as this one. (In the book "Fatal Vision," about an army doctor who tried to blame the death of his family on lethal Hippies, there's a line "Four people on acid couldn't even organize a trip to the bathroom, let alone a trip to go kill people.") The leader of this wild bunch is played by a 40-year-old Indian dancer (Indian Indian, not American Indian) who in fact is great, jacking far more enthusiasm into his performance than this flick really deserves. He detects the group ritual being gawked at by an outsider (as per the later and vastly superior "Race with the Devil") who then gets mauled by some of the group. This victim, Sylvia, staggers into the nearby largely abandoned town and collapses; the local baker woman, Mildred (this actress eerily resembles Audrey Campbell from the "Olga" series) assumes that the culprits are some nearby construction workers. Meanwhile the Hippies show up in the same town after their van breaks down, setting off the main revenge plot which is basically a reworking of "The Virgin Spring"/"Last House on the Left" (although the latter appeared a few years later). The "gimmick" here is that the Hippies and the construction workers get rabies, after Sylvia's younger brother Pete injects dead dog blood into some meat pies (Sweeney Todd, anyone?) eaten by the Hippies. According to a medical website, "contact with the blood, urine, or feces (e.g., guano) of a rabid animal, does not constitute an exposure...." But I guess we need to allow for some "artistic license..." As to whether "I Drink Your Blood" is worth your time, there's some nice violence, limited of course by the minimal budget; the mass shooting at the end is unfortunately all off camera. The actors playing the rabies victims have varying degrees of frothing at the mouth---by the way, according to that same medical website, "The rabies incubation period may vary from a few days to several years, but is typically one to three months"---in other words not an hour or less, as per the movie, but again, artistic license... Other than the Indian dude, the best performance is by Rhonda Fultz, who unlike most of the cast has a "real movie" on her credit list ("In Cold Blood"). Since she manages to inject some recognizable humanity into her character Molly, Molly's death (by her own hand) is more affecting than what happens to most of the others, plus her being pregnant and all. Bottom line, "Blood" passes the "free/beer" test---if you can see it for free and have plenty of beer handy, then yeah, go for it. By the way don't bother looking for that scary face on the video cover, it's actually from another movie....

Durston's 'I Drink Your Blood' was a Grindhouse release alongside 'I Eat Your Skin'. I couldn't get a hold of the latter but managed to find the first. It's not exactly true to its title but it delivers what it promises, for the most part anyway, which is tacky gory fun. I was expecting more gore and viscera but was a tad disappointed on that front as most of it is reserved for the final semi-bloodbath sequence. Also, 'I Drink Your Blood' gets quite slow at times (fast forward is handy in such occasions). I was a little grossed out by the white faeces spilling out of the mouths of the infected. The acting, sound effects, visual effects, cinematography and dialogues are laughably bad. Then again, the movie's titled 'I Drink Your Blood' which is funny enough.

The movie is bizarrely ineffective and lacking in flair, like so many nowadays mainstream horror flicks as inept as this one; though quite violent, it doesn't really scare. In a sense, it has some qualities to be praised—like the way it's written, or some good sense in the directing, some form of almost mainstream and practical approach of a sensationalist subject. It has some common sense; but no flair …. I pretended not to notice its side of social awareness—the perils of the youth's dissolute life, the LSD, the debauchery of the workmen as a way of infection …. It tries to be even a zombie movie, and the scene of the rabid, foaming workmen's attack is deeply laughable, such rubbish ….Why does the geezer examine that blood sample? Did he use to examine each stain of blood he ever found? I mean, it's not like he ain't my favorite movie physician, yet …. Anyway, it looks like he examined the blood because he already had inferred from Mildred's description that the blood was on the hands of a possibly rabid human.I DRINK YOUR BLOD was, I think, nicely shot; the makeup for the rabid fellows is bad.No genuine suspense, excitement and gusto whatsoever.'Death by hydrophobia is agony.'