FREE Movie(s): I Drink your Blood (and Others)

I watched this "Classic?" film for the first time a few days ago.

Now, I'm normally the sort of person who can suspend disbelief and doesn't let it get in the way of a film. I'll happily accept fake bats on string without laughing because after all, these films were once meant to be scary.

I'm really not sure exactly how to take "I drink your blood" but essentially, I don't think I've ever laughed so hard during a horror film.

It's a standard sort of "boy infects a group of strangers" with rabies style plot but what makes the film so funny is the way in which we're told. There's a man explaining the symptoms, "it starts off making you sweaty" - cut to man sitting up in bed rubbing his sweaty head. As each symptom is revealed, we're shown a shot of it, Naked Gun style.

The best bit is that these rabid people are afraid of water and there's a brilliant scene where our heroes escape the clutches of a bunch of amusing "foaming at the mouth" citizens by standing in ankle-high water in a creek bed and kick-splashing them.

I had sore stomach muscles from laughing so hard.

In any case, the reason why this little production is FREE is because it's out of copyright.

You can get this movie and lots more in MPEG4 format (which many players can play directly - or which you could use software like Nero to burn to DVD) at the Internet Archive.

A sample of the other FREE movies they have there includes;

Film Noir

• Suddenly
• Beat the Devil - Jack Clayton, John Huston, Humphrey Bogart
• The Stranger - Sam Spiegel
• D.O.A. (1950)- Leo C. Popkin
• Scarlet Street - Fritz Lang, Walter Wanger
• Panic In The Streets - Elia Kazan
• Detour
• Amazing Mr. X , The
• The File On Thelma Jordan - Break Wind Studios
• Kansas City Confidential - Edward Small
• The Green Glove - Georges Maurer, Detmar Walter
• The Man Who Cheated Himself - Felix E. Feist

Science Fiction and Horror

• Night of the Living Dead - Karl Hardman, Russell Streiner
• The Last Man on Earth
• M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Moerder - Seymour Nebenzal
• The Lost World - Jamie White
• Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari ( The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ) - Rudolf Meinert and Erich Pommer
• The Phantom of the Opera - Carl Laemmle
• Bloody Pit of Horror - Francesco Merli, Ralph Zucker
• Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
• Lady Frankenstein - Umberto Borsato
• The House On Haunted Hill - William Castle
• Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (A Symphony of Horror) - Enrico Dieckmann & Albin Grau
• Carnival of Souls
• Invasion of the Bee girls
• Grave of the Vampire
• Horror Express

Comedy

• His Girl Friday
• Happy Go Lovely
• My Man Godfrey
• Charlie Chaplin Festival
• My Favorite Brunette - Daniel Dare
• Meet John Doe
• Charlie Chaplin's "A Burlesque On Carmen"
• Three Stooges Episodes
• Charlie Chaplin's "The Vagabond"
• Charlie Chaplin's "Tillies Punctured Romance"
• Utopia - Raymond Eger
• The Flying Deuces - Boris Morros
• Charlie Chaplin's "A Fair Exchange"
• Mud and Sand - Gilbert M. Anderson
• Gorilla, The - Harry Joe Brown
• Jack and the Beanstalk