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List Price: $19.99 | | Label: TLA
Salesrank: 34071
Released: November 6, 2007 |
| Our Price: $10.74 |
| Used Price: $2.96 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A kindergarten teacher invents a car that runs on human blood to combat high gas prices in BLOOD CAR, a horror/comedy from first time director Alex Orr. In the first feature film from Fake Wood Wallpaper Films, narrative conventions and predictable, by-the-book plotlines are left behind in favor of an absurdist look at a future in which no one drives due to $40-a-gallon gasoline prices. Both a satire on our voracious habit for oil as well as a cleverly structured horror film, BLOOD CAR will make you cringe and laugh at the same time.
Blood Car Reviews:
Very creative low budget pulp horror 
2009-10-25 - This film was a very unexpected joy to watch. The cover speaks of intense gore and a Mad Max-like post-apocalyptic society where gas is so expensive, no one drives...and the main character devises a novel engine that runs on a more readily available resource - blood. The movie diverges a bit from this description. Its low budget, so some of these divergences are to be expected. For example, it does not have a post-apocalyptic feel at all, and I liked that. I don't necessarily enjoy a mood where the world is hopeless, and society has collapsed into rival gangs. This movie is completely set in a normal suburb that just happens to have high gas prices and a corresponding lack of in-use cars. Second, there is no intense gore. There are a few scenes of sputtering blood, but it is done with enough visual separation that you're not really watching people get chopped up. Further, the director clearly took guidance from Quentin Tarantino, and displayed that rare talent of making what should be horrifying highly comic (e.g., there's a very funny scene of a recently dead woman being thrown from a balcony, just like "O s--t, I shot Marvin in the face"). So yes, I definitely enjoyed this movie, primarily because of its Tarantino-esque dark humor, and its avoidance of most of what the cover indicates (texas chainsaw-like levels of gore, etc.). The acting was good at times, and not so good at other times, but this is overcome by a good directing tempo, high quality camera work, etc. An expected treat.
Perfect Dark Comedy 
2009-08-27 - Mike Brune (RETURN OF THE JACKALOPE), Anna Chlumsky (MY GIRL), Katie Rowlett (S.I.N.), Matt Hutchinson (BLOOD CAR) and Marla Malcolm (2001 MANIACS) star in BLOOD CAR, a dark comedy which takes place a few weeks into the future and gas prices increased to $30 per gallon. It's about an elementary school teacher who invents a car that runs on human blood. This movie has what you'd expect; beautiful topless girls and gross out blood. I give this movie a 5 out of 5 star rating.
LITTLE AUTO-SHOP OF HORRORS...
2009-07-08 - In the future, gasoline is outrageously expensive (yep, even worse than today). No one drives automobiles, leaving the amorous youth nowhere to shag except for in junkyards. Luckily, one man has been working on a solution. Archie (Mike Brune) has been experimenting on a motor powered by wheatgrass juice. Too bad the results are less than satisfactory. One day, Archie accidentally cuts himself, getting his blood mixed in with the green juice / fuel. Eureka! This is the breakthrough he's been waiting for! Unfortunately, a car engine is many times larger (and thirstier) than Archie's tiny test motor, forcing him to find an ever increasing supply of the red stuff. Things get pretty gooshy! Is this all done in the name of science? Humanity? Nah, Archie has to be able to drive in order to pick up the local, sexually insatiable badgirl (Katie Rowlett), who just happens to love riding in cars. As we will see, a man will go to extremes for such a thing! Uh-oh! It appears that the government has taken notice! Archie soon finds himself tracked, abducted, and interrogated by government agents bent on obtaining his bloody secrets! BLOOD CAR is a hilarious horrorcom in the tradition of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (only far more adult). Watch for Anna Chlumsky as Archie's lovesick wheatgrass supplier. If black humour, parody, and social satire make you laugh out loud, and a bit of crimson spatter doesn't bother your sensibilities, then BC is a must!...
not scary 
2008-10-31 - okay, here is a guy who makes a car that runs on blood. okay stupid plot stupid movie. it doese have some gruesome kils but i've seen better low budget horror films. this movie is okay for a first time director. but it's something i wouldn't buy.
Blood Car 
2008-10-04 - This movie was just not what I expected. There are low budget films and no budget films and Blood Car falls into the latter. It played like a John Walters movie and I kept expecting Divine and Edith Massey to walk on. There was no gore and not particulary funny in fact I could nt wait for it to end. Might have appriciated it more if I had had a few cans. If you are into films made up of one old car, two upturned boxes for sales units and the same stretch of road with half a dozen amateur actors haming it up then Blood Car could be for you otherwise leave it well alone
