This week’s featured release is one we’ve been excited about for months. Every week we gather around the office projector and watch the latest indie films to come our way. Blood Car – a sci-fi horror comedy about what happens when the price of gas goes up to $30 a gallon – was the first flick ever to receive a standing ovation during an office screening. It’s just that good. It’s the kind of movie people start talking about and they just. Can’t. Shut. Up.

But don’t take our word for it, just ask the audiences of the 20+ film festivals where Blood Car has played and won awards. And take a gander at these here glowing sentences of praise:

“As its title admits, ” Blood Car” is conceptually on the primitive side. What lifts it above most low-budget horror comedies (Troma-tized or not) is the loopy, off-kilter humor director/co-scenarist Alex Orr and collaborators bring to the table. There’s something charming about the feature even at its most cheerfully tasteless …” – Variety

“Awesome. Completely awesome. So far in this festival this is the only movie I’ve seen that I’ve thought was a runaway hit.” – Ten Movies to See Before You Die

“The world two weeks from now is a little absurd, and it must be seen to be understood. Grab a bottle of wheatgrass spiked with a squirt of hemoglobin and let “Blood Car” take you for a ride.” – Film Threat

Our fondest memory of Blood Car is the recent midnight screening at the Austin Film Festival, where an audience fueled by caffeine and other substances hooted appreciatively in all the right places. When the lights came back up, Director Alex Orr and producer Tony Holley answered crucial questions about nudity and meat into the wee hours.

Blood Car is available for purchase on DVD or download from the B-Side store at http://www.bloodcar.com/store/.

- Chris Holland