Fill 'Er Up! 

Katie Rowlett stars with Mike Brune in 'Blood Car.'

Filthy.

Depraved.

Sexist.

Blood Car isn't a must see because it's a local production from a widely admired and respected team of filmmakers. Blood Car is a must see because it's satire at its best. Jonathan Swift would have been proud.

Mike Brune plays Archie. Teacher, vegan, environmentalist, inventor, Archie is working on a wheatgrass engine. Gas in the future-two weeks into the future according to the chip eating "suit" that introduces the film-is 35 dollars a gallon. Everyday Archie stops by Lorraine's sparse vegan stand to procure wheatgrass.

Lorraine (Anna Chlumsky) is crushing on Archie hard and Archie has not a clue. If only Archie could see the pictures she draws of her "servicing" Archie, he might change is mind. Who he does notice is Denise (Katie Rowlett), the caustic bombshell who runs the meat stand across from Lorraine.

One fateful night, suffering failure after failure to get his engine working, Archie in a drunken stupor cuts himself. The wheatgrass engine tasting iron rich blood roars to life. Excited, Archie taps his own veins for a little red gold, mixes it with the wheat grass and takes his car out for a spin. Lorraine is impressed that Archie got the car running, but Denise, assuming Archie must be rich to afford gas, is ready to get buck-a-naked and more. The hottie brunette asks Archie to take her for a ride and he gladly obliges, leaving Lorraine to pine.

Riding in a running car turns Denise on to the point that she gives Archie a "surprise." Unfortunately for Archie, the car runs out of fuel just before the surprise can come to full fruition-don't you just love coded language? Fortunately for Archie, if he picks Denise up that night in his car, she'll show him how much she enjoys rolling around in his crappy, beat up Honda. Thus begins Archie's quest to keep his tank full.

By the time Blood Car's third act rolls around Archie will have done unspeakable things to keep his car fueled. All so he can continue to do-and have done to him-unspeakable things with Denise.

Archie breaks down.

What's interesting is that Blood Car is labeled a horror film by its creators, although it doesn't feel like one. It's much like The Signal. It has horror elements, but the filmmakers were too busy creating the film they wanted to adhere strictly to the horror play book. And the satirical elements themselves are evident, yet Orr and his crew never zoom in on the knife.

Fake Wood Wallpaper has always excelled at creating absurd scenes and playing them straight. Applying that same aesthetic to Blood Car puts the film in league with the likes of Heathers and not toothless clunkers like Jawbreaker.

Destined for cult status, Blood Car is Clerks' raunchy linguistic humor turned visual, mixed with Evil Dead's sensibility, ran through an ultra-low budget 80's filter.

Charles Judson is a local screen & comic book writer and a regular contributor and film critic for CinemATL.