"They planted the living and harvested the dead!" What did you expect, soybeans? Not from the blood farmers, immortalized in drive-ins and B-movie dives throughout America in Invasion of the Blood Farmers.

The film isn't any different from any of the hundreds with similar titles that came before it and hopefully will follow it. What's interesting about Invasion of the Blood Farmers is that it was coauthored by former CREEM freelancer Ed Kelleher ("Black Sabbath Don't Scare Nobody," Dec. 1971).

Kelleher carries on a dual identity. During the day he's a lanky, gentlemannered rock publicist. But once he's alone with a character named Ed Adlum, his long fingers become stumps, his facial features melt into hydrochloric mulches, and there is no crime too sadistic, no horror too gruesome for Kelleher and Adlum to consider, and eventually put to the screen.