I Drink Your Blood (1971)

A band of Satanist hippies – led by the demented Horace Bones (played by a Boston dance instructor named Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury) – roll into the little town of Valley Hill, which has been largely abandoned due to the construction of a new dam.

The hippies are a motley collection of societal outcasts and sexual messes.

There’s a black street queen who seems like he dropped out of an all-male 42nd Street theatre; a mute; a bewigged, very pregnant woman; a freak-era skank; a prunefaced Oriental lady in a Chinatown cocktail dress; and various sex-hungry young men.

They rape local girl Sylvia (Arlene Farber, billed as Iris Brooks), and her elderly veterinarian grandpa (Richard Bowler) goes after them. He fails and is beaten up and force-fed LSD.

This bothers his 12-year-old grandson, Pete (Riley Mills), who takes revenge on the hippies by feeding them meat pies infected with blood from a rabid dog.

The rabies poison interacts with the LSD coursing through their systems, transforming the freaks into violent, rabid lunatics, setting them off on a barrage of violent mayhem.

After the hippies stab one of their own to death and amputate his leg, another flees and hitchhikes away.

She gets picked up by a bunch of hard-hat construction workers from the dam who make her the centrepiece of a blue-collar gang-bang – while she infects the lot of them, turning them into a bunch of marauding ghouls, too.

Meanwhile, back at hippie HQ, the others run amok. The mute slices an old lady’s hand off with an electric carving knife, and when the pregnant woman learns she is going to die from rabies, she rips off her wig and stabs herself in the stomach while crying about wanting to have a baby.

The Chinese lady immolates herself in the middle of the town in the manner of Buddhist monks protesting the carnage in Vietnam.

All the while, the boom microphone bobs up and down at the top of the screen . . .

The dialogue and acting are terrible, but the gore is plentiful and outrageous, with multiple decapitations, impalements, disembowelments, stabbings and electric carving knife action.

The film was shot in the village of Sharon Springs in upstate New York.

Many of the film’s locations, including the old hotel, were slated for demolition but were spared long enough for production.

Horace Bones
Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury
Sue-Lin 
Jadin Wong
Molly
Rhonda Fultz
Rollo
George Patterson
Pete Banner
Riley Mills
Roger Davis
John Damon
Mildred Nash
Elizabeth Marner-Brooks
Doc Banner
Richard Bowler
Andy
Tyde Kierney
Sylvia
Arlene Farber (Iris Brooks)
Shelley
Alex Mann

Director
David Durston

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