Welcome to Blood City
| Welcome to Blood City | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Directed by | Peter Sasdy |
| Written by | Michael Winder & Stephen Schneck |
| Starring |
Jack Palance Keir Dullea Samantha Eggar |
| Music by | Roy Budd |
| Cinematography | Reginald Morris |
| Edited by | Keith Palmer |
Release date | August 23, 1977 |
Running time | 96 mins. |
| Country |
Canada[1] United Kingdom[2] |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $CAD900,000 |
Welcome to Blood City is a 1977 film directed by Peter Sasdy. It stars Jack Palance, Keir Dullea and Samantha Eggar.[3][4]
Plot
Five strangers awake finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west. Their task is to become exempt from being killed - what the towns people refer to as being "immortal" - by killing twenty of the other inhabitants of the town under the scrutiny of the sheriff (Jack Palance), otherwise they will spend their lives in slavery.
Production
Shot in Kleinburg Studios north of Toronto, Welcome to Blood City was an early Canada/U.K. tax-shelter co-production.
Historical context
It is perhaps the first cinema release movie in the "virtual-reality" genre after the 1973 made for German television film World on a Wire. A theme possibly first presented in Daniel F. Galouye's 1964 novel Simulacron-3, later to be explored again in The Matrix and The Thirteenth Floor.
Cast
- Jack Palance as Frendlander
- Keir Dullea as Lewis
- Samantha Eggar as Katherine
- Barry Morse as Supervisor
- Hollis McLaren as Martine
- Chris Wiggins as Gellor
References
- ↑ "Welcome to Blood City (1977)". BFI. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ↑ "Welcome to Blood City (1977)". BFI. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ↑ http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/welcome-to-blood-city-v53801%5Bdead+link%5D
- ↑ "Welcome to Blood City (1977). Western in Virtual Reality. Director - Peter Sasdy. Stars: Keir Dullea, Jack Palance, Samantha Eggar. Moria - The Science-Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review". moria.co.nz.