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Blood Creek (2009)

Directed by Joel Schumacher

Horror

Most recently watched by seanCduregger

Overview

A man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich.

Rated R | Length 90 minutes

Actors

Dominic Purcell | Henry Cavill | Michael Fassbender | Emma Booth | Rainer Winkelvoß | Shea Whigham | Tony Barger | Ana Popescu | Florin Piersic Jr. | Gerard McSorley | Lynn Collins | Albert Gherasim | Wentworth Miller | László Mátray

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

What’s scarier than nazis? Obviously it’s occult Nazis who are mostly undead and feeding off people and bringing animals and humans back to life!

A plot that could be expanded into a video game, this little seen movie from last year is quite effective, dark and full of some great gore.

Michael Fassbender, Dominic Purcell and Henry Cavill star in this Joel Schumacher horror flick that had a small theatrical run last year. To me that’s mind blowing. How did this movie, made by Joel “The Lost Boys” Schumacher starring 3 pretty great actors get the shaft? There’s certainly worse horror movies that get wider releases and make more money, but a competent flick from a well known director (who, don’t get me wrong has had some missteps along the way, but still…) gets released in a few unknown theaters and then hits DVD? Either way, I hope it gets some legs with the home market because this was a great watch.

Fassbender stars as a Nazi sent to a German family’s farm back in 1936 to study a runestone they have in their backyard. Cut to modern times and a young EMT (Cavill) is dealing with the loss of his brother (Purcell) who went missing from a camping trip 2 years earlier suddenly shows up and asks him to grab some guns, supplies and to head back into the swamp with him. He obliges and ends up embroiled in a fast-paced, gruesome and scary battle with an undead Nazi.

First thing I noticed was that Blood Creek never takes a lot of time with exposition, instead choosing to reveal story on the run. The movie goes from one crazy scene to the next, spilling gallons of blood along the way, telling an ever more interesting story and doing it with abandon that I found really charming. A few times the script does delve into some poorly written dialog but it never lasts long or is interrupted with a flaming, undead horse busting through a door, so really, who gives two shits? I loved all the performances and any ridiculousness in plot is made up for by it’s relentless continuance of action or by delivering more blood loss.

I really hope Blood Creek gets a following on the home market because while it’s not a perfect movie by any means it’s a lot of fun and deserves to be seen by anyone with a vague interest in Nazis, zombies, undead flaming horses, and the occult.

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