Cold Lazarus 1996

Writer Daniel Feeld, first seen in Dennis Potter’s Karaoke, returns three centuries later as a disembodied head. While technology has advanced in the 24th Century, global corporate control has brought about an austere, antiseptic way of life. In the year 2368, the terrorist organization RON (Reality or Nothing), seeks a return to the tranquility of earlier times. At the Masdon Science Center, a team of scientists led by Emma Porlock succeeds in extracting memories from Feeld’s cryogenically preserved head – memories which are, in fact, scenes from Karaoke. Aging Martina Masdon, the tyrannical owner of the Science Center, and international media mogul David Siltz see the potential for the commercial exploitation of Feeld’s memories. As Siltz puts it, “Who would want made-up stories from a hack when you can mainline into the real thing? At last, privacy has a true market value.”