A gang of Satanic hippies is traveling around in a van (going... somewhere?). They break down in a town with a population of like 12 people. Horace Bones, the extremely eccentric leader of this gang of total acid heads that worship Satan and vow to die and kill for Him, blah, blah, blah. No one except Horace really takes this crap seriously, most of the members are a somewhat normal band of misfits who are more or less decent people who just like to trip out.
Anyway, a young girl accidentally sees them performing a ritual sacrifice on an unfortunately real chicken (hope they ate it afterward) she then screams and runs for her life. They catch up to her and attack her. She stumbles home and tells her Grampa about what happened who vows to get revenge on these hooligans that have moved into a run-down hotel in this almost completely vacant town, full of "yummy looking" rats to feast on (Don't ask, they look as frighteningly real as the chicken did).
A slightly younger version of John-Boy Walton is part of the family of the attacked girl and beats Gramps to the punch when it comes to revenge by offering the satanic hippies some meat pies that he has laced with Rabies that he got from a mad dog he had shot and killed earlier in the movie. All the hippies start to get sick and foam at the mouth. Unfortunately, It looks like they just sprayed whipped cream on their mouths, making them appear totally unscary and instead look like rejects from those "Got Milk?" commercials.
The extremely diminutive population of this desolate town band together and shoot all of the Satanic rabid hippies. It's a little gory here and there... a pregnant woman stabs herself in the belly, a man is beheaded, some guts spill from here and there, nothing my readers won't enjoy. All the hippies are eventually killed off in various disgusting ways. The acting is truly a spectacle, it's so bad that I absolutely must include this in the comedy section of Cultarama, I sincerely had no choice. There's a plethora of weirder-than-weird characters in this film to enjoy, no two are alike in any way.
I also love the movie title because despite being called I Drink Your Blood, there's actually no blood drinking in it. The title was originally called Phobia because the film deals quite a lot with the fact that rabid animals/people are apparently terrified of water but it was changed at the last minute because they really needed a punchier title, even though it now had nothing in common with the film's storyline. This change was made without even consulting the director, who was completely confused, as were the actors when this movie premiered and nobody could find it due to the title change! The sequel title is even better, aptly named "I Eat Your Skin" I highly recommend both films, they're what true cult film is all about.
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