Thirty-One Days O’Horror: Blood Car (2007)

Let’s Ride #1!

With gas prices skyrocketing to over thirty bucks a gallon, Archie Andrews, a kindly vegan elementary teacher, decides to build an engine that runs on wheatgrass. He purchases wheatgrass from Lorraine, who runs a vegetarian stand. Lorraine has a huge crush on Archie, but he dismisses her advances and sticks to buying wheatgrass from her. All of his attempts to create an engine fail until he accidentally cuts himself one night and he discovers that the engine he is working on runs on blood. Archie quickly becomes the most popular guy in town, attracting the attention of numerous women, a carjacker, and others who believe that he is wealthy. He also attracts the attention of the federal government, who discover that he has created a blood car, and they want him to build more for them. Archie initially hunts down animals to fuel his car, but he soon realizes that his new monstrosity only runs on human blood…..lots of human blood.

Blood Car is a ridiculous dark comedy that, despite its cheap look and feel, is much better than I expected. Mike Brune does a great job as Archie, who goes from awkward school teacher to awkward killer. Anna Chlumsky shouldn’t be in this film. She’s much better than this movie, but she works great as Lorraine. My favorite character in the whole film, however, is Denise, the meat-selling loose woman that throws herself at Archie. Played by Katie Rowlett, Denise has the best one-liners in the film.

Blood Car is no masterpiece. It knows this. That said, it plays to its strengths of being ridiculous and dark. It has plenty of over-the-top gore, tosses in a bit of T & A for folks that want that sort of thing, and delivers some big laughs. I recommend it, but only to independent film fans that get this type of dark humor.

Thanks for checking out my review. I’m just getting started on this year’s Thirty-One Days O’Horror! I hope that you’re revved up for a wild October ride!