The film stars Tukel, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Dakota Goldhor, Jason Selvig, and Dustin Guy Defa.

During an evening date, Eric Sparrow (Onur Tukel) crassly refuses a marriage proposal by his long suffering girlfriend Jody (Anna Margaret Hollyman).

After several failed attempts to reconnect with Jody, he goes on a series of three disastrous dates with Samantha (Vanna Pilgrim), Blake (Melodie Sisk), and Denise (Juliette Fairley).

That evening, Eric begins to suffer from strange pains and finds that he can no longer enjoy the taste of food or smoking cigarettes.

Recalling his previously successful vampire film Drawing Blood, Tukel commented on the production of Summer of Blood: After 15 years of making comedy after comedy and losing my investors' money, I thought, I made a vampire film years ago and we made money very quickly off that, let's try that again!

[4] Eric Kohn of Indiewire gave the film a B+ and called it a "hilarious satire," describing Tukel's Erik as possessing "contemptible goofiness" and being "the broke, post-9/11 version of an early Woody Allen character.

"[5] Alan Scherstuhl of The Village Voice also compared the film favorably to the works of Woody Allen, describing Tukel's lead as "a furry schlump in stained business-casual, his cocksure smirk hidden behind a gray tumbleweed of beard.

"[6] Richard Brody The New Yorker also praised the "independent-scene all-star" supporting cast, particularly noting the "poised, commanding" Anna Margaret Hollyman as Jody and the "wildly inventive" Dakota Goldhor as Penelope.

[7] Nicolas Rapold of The New York Times, however, was slightly less favorable, commenting "It's all mellowly funny rather than creepy, something like a stand-up conceit elaborated into scenes.