The Strange Saga of I DRINK YOUR BLOOD (1971 Exploitation Horror Film)

I DRINK YOUR BLOOD is quintessential exploitation horror. It was made specifically to compete with the graphic violence on display in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, it was sold as a double feature with I EAT YOUR SKIN, a film made almost a decade earlier and never distributed, and writer/director David E. Durston went on from it to make hardcore gay pornography before leaving filmmaking for three decades. When a group of LSD-addled, devil-worshipping hippies terrorize the residents of a small town, a young boy exacts horrific revenge by feeding them meat pies injected with rabies. It isn’t long before everyone goes mad and all manner of carnage ensues. The first film to get an X-rating by the MPAA for violence alone, and heavily censored upon release, I DRINK YOUR BLOOD is 1970s exploitation horror at its best.