I Drink Your Blood
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| I Drink Your Blood | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | David E. Durston |
| Produced by | Jerry Gross |
| Written by | David E. Durston |
| Starring | Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury Lynn Lowry Jack Damon Tyde Kierney |
| Music by | Clay Pitts |
| Editing by | Lyman Hallowell |
| Distributed by | Grindhouse Releasing Box Office Spectaculars |
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I Drink Your Blood is a cult classic horror film originally released in 1970. The film was written and directed by American film director David E. Durston, produced by notorious exploitation film producer, Jerry Gross, and starred famous Indian dancer, Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury as Horace Bones, and (then upcoming) actress 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.
[edit] Plot
Loosely inspired by the real life Charles Manson "family" as well as an obsession with "hydrophobia" (fear of water brought on by rabies infection) screenwriter David E. Durston spins the tale of a group of meandering Satanist hippy-gypsies 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 violated. A boy then decides to exact revenge and put a stop to the hippy rampage. The boy (who works at a local bakery) feeds the hippies special pot 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.
[edit] Trivia
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." Likely out of censorship or out of downright laziness by the producers, 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, who probably didn't want to fork over the money to do the job properly or who just didn't care to make the necessary cuts to get the film an "R" rating. Consequentially 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 who played the lead hippy, Horace Bones, was a famous Indian dancer notable for his yoga-like flexibility and ability to bend and contort his body any which way. Bahaskar relocated from his homeland of India to New York City and started his own dance company in the 1950s. On 25 October 1977, during rehearsal in a dimly lit New York City theater he tragically fell from the stage into the orchestra pit, which left him permanently crippled. Bhaskar was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. After a severe decline in health, Bhaskar passed away on the 4th of August 2003, as a result of probable suicide.
One of the rats in the film as well as several rat "extras" were the star(s) of and were wrangled by the same animal trainer of the original film, Willard (1971 film).
The tune played throughout the movie is used at the beginning of the Rob Zombie song "Feel So Numb" from his second solo album "The Sinister Urge".
