The X Files: Blood (1994)

Date of Original Broadcast: 30 September 1994
Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
Sound: stereo

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Ten Thirteen Productions / Twentieth Century Fox Television
Executive Producer: Chris Carter
Co-Executive Producers: James Wong, Glen Morgan, R.W. Goodwin
Supervising Producers: Howard Gordon
Producers: Paul Brown, David Nutter
Line Producer: Joseph Patrick Finn
Co-Producer: Paul Rabwin
Associate Producer: Crawford Hawkins
Production Manager: J.P. Finn
Production Coordinator: Anita Truelove
Assistant Production Coordinator: Joanne Service

SCRIPT
Script: Glen Morgan, James Wong
Story: Darin Morgan
Creator: Chris Carter

DIRECTION
Director: David Nutter
1st Assistant Director: Tom Braidwood
2nd Assistant Director: Collin Leadley

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: John S. Bartley
Camera Operator: Rod Pridy
Focus Puller: Marty McInally
Chief Lighting Technician: David Tickell
Key Grip: Al Campbell
Processing: Gastown Film Labs

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Heather MacDougall
Assistant Editor: Jeff Cahn
Post Production Supervisor: Kenneth Dennis
Telecine: Gastown Post and Transfer
Electronic Assembly: Encore Video

MUSIC
Music: Mark Snow
Scoring Mixer: Larold Rebhun
Music Editor: Jeff Charbonneau

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Michael Williamson
Re-Recording Mixers: David John West, Nello Torri, Craig Hunter
Supervising Sound Editor: Thierry Couturier
Post Production Sound: West Productions Inc

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Fern Levin
Hair: Michael Marsden
Costume Designer: Larry Wells
Assistant Costume Designer: Jenni Gullett

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: Toby Lindala

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: David Gauthier

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Producer: Mat Beck
Main Title Sequence: Castle / Bryant / Johnsen

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Graeme Murray
Assistant Art Director: Greg Loewen
Set Decorator: Shirley Inget
Props Master: Ken Hawryliw
Construction Coordinator: Rob Maier

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Wendy McLean
Transportation Coordinator: Bob Bowe

LOCATIONS
Locations: British Columbia, Canada
Location Manager: Louisa Gradnitzer

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Ken Kirzinger

CASTING
Casting: Rick Millikan
Vancouver Casting: Lynne Carrow
Original Casting: Randy Stone
Casting Associate (Vancouver): Coreen Mayrs

CAST
David Duchovny (Fox Mulder)
Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully)
William Sanderson (Edward Funsch)
Kimberly Ashlyn Gere (Bonnie McRoberts)
George Touliatos (County Supervisor Larry Winter)
John Cygan (Sherrif Spencer)
Bruce Harwood (Byers)
Dean Haglund (Langly)
Gerry Rosseau (mechanic)
Andre Daniels (Harry McNally)
William MacKenzie (bus driver)
Diana Stevan (Mrs Adams)
David Fredericks (security guard)
Kathleen Duborg (mother)
John Harris (Taber)
B.J. Harrison (clerk)
Tom Braidwood (Frohike (uncredited))

SUMMARY

In the small town of Franklin, Pennsylvania, a postal worker, Edward Funsch is assailed by strange messages on electronic devices preying on his phobia of blood and urging him to kill... A businessman goes berserk and kills his fellow passengers in a lift after seeing messages on the floor indicator warning him that they're all going to die of asphyxiation... A woman terrified of being raped murders a car mechanic after seeing messages on the readout of an engine timing device... Mulder and Scully investigate.

CAPSULE REVIEW

A cautionary tale of corporate greed and ecological neglect in this understated and effective episode. Blood is a refreshingly off-beat look at two of The X Files' favourite concerns - conspiracies and ecological abuse, a more down to earth episode than most The X Files, continuing in the ecologically derived vein begun in The Host. No little green men, giant fluke worms or elastic limbed cannibals - just the appalling monstrosity of corporate indifference and the obscenity of economic power, Blood is a solid mystery thriller, more rooted in the everyday that the previous season two episodes, and all the better for it. (Full Review)

AVAILABILITY

Germany
DVD Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Japan
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (PCBP-00065)

UK
Television Distributors: BBC1; BBC2; Sky One
Video Distributor: Fox Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Encore
DVD Distributor: Fox Home Video

USA
Television Distributors: Fox
Video Distributor: Fox Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

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KEYWORDS

fbi, subliminal messages

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008