Welcome to Blood City

1977 film

23 August 1977 (1977-08-23)

Running time

96 mins.CountriesCanada^[1]
United Kingdom^[2]LanguageEnglishBox office$CAD900,000

Welcome to Blood City is a 1977 science fiction Western film directed by Peter Sasdy and starring 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 townspeople 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.

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

Production

Shot in Cinespace Film Studios in Kleinburg, a village north of Toronto, Welcome to Blood City was an early Canada/U.K. co-production.

References

^ "Welcome to Blood City (1977)". BFI. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
^ "Welcome to Blood City (1977)". BFI. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
^ "Welcome to Blood City - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast - AllMovie". www.allrovi.com. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
^ "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. 31 July 2000.