I Drink Your Blood
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| I Drink Your Blood | |
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 Poster advertising a double feature of I Drink Your Blood and I Eat Your Skin. |
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| 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 |
| Cinematography | Jacques Demarecaux Joseph Mangine (uncredited) |
| Editing by | Lyman Hallowell |
| Distributed by | Cinemation Industries |
| Release date(s) |  December 1970 July 1, 1978 |
| Running time | 90 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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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.
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[edit] 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 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] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] References
- I Drink Your Blood at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview with exploitation film distributor Bob Murawski of Grindhouse Releasing
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