Welcome to Blood City

{{Short description|1977 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Welcome to Blood City

| image = Welcome to Blood City.jpg

| caption =

| director = Peter Sasdy

| writer = Michael Winder
Stephen Schneck

| narrator =

| starring = Jack Palance
Keir Dullea
Samantha Eggar

| music = Roy Budd

| cinematography = Reginald H. Morris

| editing = Keith Palmer

| studio = EMI Films
Stanley Chase Productions

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1977|08|23|df=yes}}

| runtime = 96 mins.

| country = Canada{{cite web|title=Welcome to Blood City (1977)|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6ba62a32|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724211249/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6ba62a32|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 July 2012|website=BFI|accessdate=23 December 2015}}
United Kingdom{{cite web|title=Welcome to Blood City (1977)|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6ba62a32|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724211249/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6ba62a32|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 July 2012|website=BFI|accessdate=23 December 2015}}

| language = English

| budget =

| gross = $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.{{cite web |url=http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/welcome-to-blood-city-v53801 |title=Welcome to Blood City - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast - AllMovie |website=www.allrovi.com |access-date=3 February 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120724195151/http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/welcome-to-blood-city-v53801 |archive-date=24 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/welcome-to-blood-city-1977.htm|title=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.|work=moria.co.nz|date=31 July 2000 }}

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

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.

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