<![CDATA[io9: blood car]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: blood car]]> http://io9.com/tag/bloodcar http://io9.com/tag/bloodcar <![CDATA[New Bloody Topless Joy Riding Poster For Blood Car]]> In the not so distant future, gas prices have skyrocketed to a crushing 30 bones a gallon. The prices forces one good-natured vegan to get creative and find alternate means of fuel but instead of building a car that runs on veggies, he accidentally invents a car that runs on blood. Now that's the kind of gory thinking they should have used in the Death Race remake: more blood, less common sense. Click through for the full Blood Car poster and trailer.

We've shown you footage from Blood Car before and I've gotta say this looks like a great C-film. Especially since it brings My Girl's Anna Chlumsky's into horror. The flick has been popping up in film festivals across the US, but no wide release date has been announced yet.

]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5018020&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Vegans Kill to Drive Cars and Have Sex in a Dystopian Future]]> The aptly-named Blood Car is a near-future tale about peak oil and bloodthirsty vegans. Gasoline is so expensive that it takes almost 500 bucks to fill your tank, and most cars have been abandoned in vast "car graveyards." Archie is a nice vegan guy who wants to help the world by creating the first engine that runs on wheatgrass — but instead, he accidentally invents an engine that runs on human blood.


Desperate to impress his car-loving girlfriend, who runs a meat stand, Archie begins killing people to feed his tank. Meanwhile, he's also being tracked by government agents, who want to steal the car to find out how his oil-free engine works. In this great scene, Archie manages to steal his car back from two of the agents, and also demonstrates just how energy-efficient his blood car really is. Released last year, Blood Car is hilarious and profoundly weird. Is it about the evils of gasoline, or the evils of sex? All I can see is that it's great to see a dystopian flick about a vegan's fall from grace. Must be seen to be believed. [Blood Car]

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