Syfy’s set to premiere the new horror series Blood Drive on Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at 10pm ET/PT. The summer series is styled after classic grindhouse movies, and the tagline asserts it will offer “the maximum amount of carnage allowed on cable television. Contains violence, profanity and graphic milkening.” Leading the cast of Syfy’s new 2017 summer offering are Alan Ritchson (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), Christina Ochoa (Animal Kingdom), Colin Cunningham (Falling Skies), Thomas Dominique (Undercover), and Marama Corlett (The Devil’s Double). Blood Drive was created by James Roland with John Hlavin, David Straiton, and Frederik Malmberg executive producing.
With the series just about to make its debut, here’s the scoop on what viewers can expect when they check out Blood Drive‘s first season:
The Blood Drive Plot – Los Angeles 1999 – The Future: where water is a scarce as oil, and climate change keeps the temperature at a cool 115 in the shade. It’s a place where crime is so rampant that only the worst violence is punished, and where Arthur Bailey — the city’s last good cop — runs afoul of the dirtiest and meanest underground car rally in the world, Blood Drive. The master of ceremonies is a vaudevillian nightmare, The drivers are homicidal deviants, and the cars run on human blood. Buckle Up, Lube Up and prepare for everything you know about Cable Television to Blow up!
Character Descriptions, Courtesy of Syfy:
- With good looks, a can-do attitude and actual morals, Arthur Bailey (Alan Ritchson) might be the last good officer on a corrupt L.A police force. In a city whose currency is bribery and brutality, Arthur sticks out like a virgin in a whorehouse. When he’s thrown into the Blood Drive and forced to partner with Grace – who will kill (literally) to win – Arthur will need to embrace the brutal, warrior lurking deep inside. And hopefully he’ll get Grace to stop calling him Ken doll.
- Beauty AND beast. Grace (Christina Ochoa) could be sucking a lollipop and looking sweet as cherry-pie one moment and feeding you into her blood engine the next. Driven to save her sister, Grace enters the Blood Drive for the big cash prize that will change both their lives. But after grinding up bad men for a few months, her once sweet heart is now buried in the chest of a stone-cold killer.
- The twisted vaudevillian ringleader and frontman for the Blood Drive, Julian Slink (Colin Cunningham) is an enema of mischief and sin. Like any good showman, Slink lives for the spotlight, and he would do anything for the sake of entertainment, especially if it means killing off the competition. He also loves a good show-tune.
- With Arthur as his partner, Christopher “Chris” (Thomas Dominique) was able to avoid the underbelly of the L.A. police force. But when his partner gets pulled into the Blood Drive, Christopher’s investigation into Arthur’s whereabouts will lead him on the most deranged, bat-sh*t crazy case of his life. Will one of L.A.’s last upstanding cops finally turn to the dark side?
- Aki (Marama Corlett) is a model of pleasure and pain. As a synthetic creation of Heart Industries, she has learned to murder with calm, binary efficiency. Don’t look upon Aki with moral judgement, though – she’s not bad. She’s just programmed that way.
