Review: Blood Car

I must admit that whether it be The Car or Maximum Overdrive, I may just have a thing for killer car movies. It is clear in every frame of Blood Car that director Alex Orr feels the same way. Blood Car is the type of energetic, low budget horror film that we are always on the lookout for. In other words, Blood car rules.

Blood Car takes place in a dystopian future, "two weeks from now," where gas prices are outrageously high. No one drives anymore so to have a car means you can get all the ladies you like. At least that is what Vegan kindergarten teacher Archie Andrews thinks. What starts out as a noble attempt to make a car that runs off wheatgrass turns into a bloody rampage quick as Archie realizes blood is what will make his car run. He soon forgets the sweet wheatgrass girl of his dreams, a very game Anna Chlumsky, and hitches up with meat stick selling Denise.

Blood Car is a messy film technically but a film like this can really survive on attitude and charm and this film has both in spades. The film is gleefully silly and over-the-top and never once tries to be anything but a good time. The film recalls the early work John Waters or Kevin Smith where the budget restraints only add to the overall appeal of the crude material.

Mike Brune is really great as Archie, never making him too saccharine. He may be a kindergarten teacher and won't eat meat but he will kill to get laid and Brune does a great job balancing these competing qualities.

Overall Blood Car delivers laughs, nudity, gore and light social commentary on the American Dream. For a low budget film, what more could you really ask for. The film rides on charm and energy that make its less polished aspects hardly noticeable. Check this one out today.

4/5