Follow TV Tropes

Following

YMMV / I Drink Your Blood

Go To

  • Complete Monster: Horace Bones, the self-proclaimed son of Satan, is the head of a Manson-like cult that practices Human Sacrifice. When a young woman stumbles upon one of the sacrifices, Bones beats and has her gang-raped by his men before terrorizing her town. Bones shows no compunction in attempted murder, and when the young woman's grandfather confronts him, Bones beats him and forces him to ingest LSD, all this even before he becomes infected by rabies, brutally killing all who cross his path.
  • Dancing Bear: The movie is not good by any objective standards and the violence and gore quotients have long since been topped, but being the first movie to ever receive a "X" rating purely for its violent content is itself enough to pique the interest of many a B-movie connoisseur.
  • Narm:
    • The scene where one of the hippies cuts off a woman's hand with an electric carving knife.
    • The otherwise spinechilling trailer contains a moment of severe Nightmare Retardant when the narrator questions what kind of devilish carnage will be wrought with this axe, and this sword, and this electric knife, and this... uh... garden hose. And no, it's not being used to strangle someone, it's being used as intended. Alternate Title: I Wet Your Clothes.
      • This extends to the film itself, where the hose's spray is an inexplicably effective weapon at driving off the insane construction workers, and somehow kills Rollo.
  • Nightmare Fuel: That. Trailer. The narrator sounds a bit too enthusiastic about his job. And then there's that music, which just gets more and more hellish until it just...snaps. "We have painted a bloody picture..." indeed.
  • Retroactive Recognition: One of the cultists is played by an uncredited Lynn Lowry, who would later rise to fame in horror circles for her roles as Kathy in George A. Romero's The Crazies and as Nurse Forsythe in David Cronenberg's Shivers (1975).
  • Sampled Up: The trailer's eerie music made a brief appearance the opening of Rob Zombie's song "Feel So Numb", yeeah.
  • Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The cultists are bloodthirsty sadists even before being infected, Pete is an idiot whose harebrained revenge plot gets lots of innocent people killed, and the violence and gore quotient is off the scale. Some viewers may find this too much to handle.


Top