Bloooooooooooood Car!!!!!

Last night, I went to the Sarasota Film Festival to see the movie BLOOD CAR. Because, c'mon, it's a movie called BLOOD CAR, and when movies called BLOOD CAR play in my general vicinity, I go see them. That's the way the world works.

Now, I've been burned many times on these "Long drives to see micro-budget horror flicks at film festivals," but BLOOD CAR was my favorite micro-budget horror flick since THE ROBERT CAKE...and I saw THE ROBERT CAKE in 2002!

The movie takes place in the very near future when gas prices are so high that nobody drives cars anymore. Our "hero" Archie is trying unsuccessfully to invent a car that will run on wheatgrass, but he accidentally invents a car that runs on...well, I don't want to give anything away.

Oh, wait, the movie is called BLOOD CAR, isn't it? He invents a car that runs on (SPOILER WARNING!!!) blood.

Though the movie has a ripped-from-the-headlines satirical premise, it's really just a goofy/gory movie about a guy who has to kill people to fuel his car. But it's a thoroughly entertaining movie, played entirely for laughs, and they're GENUINE laughs. Much of the humor comes from the sheer audacity of the whole thing, and the ending in particular is a masterpiece of pitch-black comedy.

Production values are top-notch for this kind of venture (and by micro-budget I mean MICRO-budget, not CABIN FEVER-style low budget), the actors know how to get laughs, and it even has Anna Chlumsky from MY GIRL, a movie that I absolutely loved and I don't care who knows it! (Okay, I care a little bit about who knows it, but I don't care if YOU, my loyal blog readers, know it.)

It's sick. It's unpredictable. It's hilarious. There are even a couple of actual shocks. It probably won't be playing at a theatre near you, but it's currently making the film festival circuit, so keep an eye out for it at www.bloodcar.com.