AFF Wants To Take You For A Ride in Blood Car


AFF Presents Blood Car
Thursday, January 31st
Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek (17329 Research Blvd)
$4 / Free for Members, 7:30pm
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We love our car. It's really fast, it corners like it's on rails and we paid for it with the blood, sweat and tears of our labor. Okay, well that last part is not entirely true, since we work at a desk all day and have never once shed any bodily fluids doing what we do, but we digress. When a friend recently asked us whether we felt guilty for driving a gasoline powered death machine, completely ignoring the irreparable damage that our vehicle was doing to the environment, our immediate answer was "No...hell no!" However, since that moment we have begun to feel an all encompassing guilt every time that we turn the ignition key, knowing that baby polar bears somewhere are drowning at that very second, swimming towards ice mirages that have long since melted. Our only solace has come from repeatedly telling ourselves that at least we aren't chopping people up and using them for fuel.

On Thursday night, the Austin Film Festival will make you wonder what you would do for a joy ride as they bring us Blood Car, one of the surprise hits of the 2007 fest. Based in the not-so-distant future, where gas prices are over $30 a gallon and everyone's new mode of transportation involves Rollerblades, we meet a sweet, vegan kindergarten teacher named Archie (Mike Brune). Archie is working on a bio-fueled engine in his spare time, using wheat grass that he purchases from the cute little Lorraine (Anna Chlumsky, yes, the one from My Girl) at the vegan food stand, which happens to be located directly across from the "Meat Stand", helmed by the sassy siren Denise (Katie Rowlett). After drunkenly cutting his hand on a broken vodka bottle, Archie discovers that the future of the combustion engine may not lie in fields of green, but in pools of blood.

Finding that a rumbling engine can coax some rather disturbing lovin' out of Denise, Archie sacrifices everything he believes in to keep his fuel meter at "F". Using old ladies, furry woodland creatures and busty hitchhikers to propel his sex-crazed madness, Archive become a one man meat grinder, leaving no fleshy body part unbutchered. Unfortunately, the government is watching and wants their own blood car for themselves, and will stop at nothing to get it.

Mere words cannot encapsulate the ridiculousness that is this film. We are convinced that there is no line that Blood Car would be hesitant to cross when it comes to taste, but that is what makes the film so much fun. Sure, they don't have the best effects or the best acting or the best script, but when you consider that this little indie was made for about $25K, things start to pull into perspective and you realize that it is the work of crazy genius. Not once did we think "Oh, we've seen this all before." The ending was a complete surprise and had us guffawing like a donkey with asthma. Every blood spurt, every sex scene, every gory detail is absolutely disgusting and hilarious. And strangely enough, it left us wondering what crimes we would commit, and even what crimes we are supporting presently (Has anybody seen my WMD? I know I left it laying around here somewhere...) just so we can get from here to there and back again, all in the comfort of our sweet ride.

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