It seems like a lot of old horror and exploitation directors are using the remake craze to get back into filmmaking. However, I Drink Your Blood director David E. Durston told Fangoria that he wasn’t interested in remaking his grindhouse classic until “offers started coming through.”

“I turned all of them down, because their budgets were too small. I decided that if I Drink Your Blood would be remade, it should be better than the original, so that people really had something to see if they went to see it again.”

Durston plans to stick close to the original story, but has added eight new characters, and promises a more violent film. One minor change is instead of LSD, the psycho hippie gang will now be tweaking on crystal meth, to help “modernize” the plot.

Durston also only plans to write and help produce the remake, and will not direct. He is in talks Sybil Danning who has read the script and may appear in the film.