Save at the pumps. Mileage racks up as much as body count in Syfy’s new series Blood Drive.
You don’t have to go green to solve the energy crisis. According to the trailer for Syfy’s new grindhouse series Blood Drive, the country can go red. Before you label this an early Christmas present, remember to stay off the street, get uncomfortable, and settle down for a cross country death race, from the not-so-distant future of 1999, that makes Death Race 2000 look like a pit stop. Psychos, cannibals, nymphos and Amazons are manning the pumps.
In the new Blood Drive trailer, the country has run out of gas, so the cars run on blood. The 13-episode season is shot on vintage looking film stock to give it that Grindhouse look. It is set in the future year of 1999 when there will be so much violence and crime that cops don’t bother making arrests.
In the tradition of classic grindhouse movies, Blood Drive is a new series soaked in high-octane chaos and "just barely approved for television,” reads the official synopsis.
“After Los Angeles’ last good cop (Alan Ritchson) is forced to join a twisted cross-country death race, his only hope of survival is a dangerous femme fatale who has the need for speed (Christina Ochoa). Oh, and forget gasoline… these cars run on human blood!“
Blood Drive was created by co-executive producer James Roland. It is being produced by Universal Cable Productions and executive producers John Hlavin (Underworld Awakening), David Straiton (Bates Motel) and Frederik Malmberg (Let Me In), along with producer Mark Wheeler (Becoming).
Blood Drive premieres on June 14.