Blood Creek
Lionsgate 2010
R1 DVD
Blood
Creek is a horror from the well-respected director Joel Schumacher, but don’t
let that cloud your judgement. Yes he made Batman and Robin and Batman Begins
but this is much more of an indie style film and is very surprising.
It
is an unusual cult horror film in that it uses Nazi occultism to spin quite an bizarre tale. In the Thirties Hitler and the inner circle
of the Third Reich come to believe that the black arts will help bring National
Socialism to the world. Accordingly they send runic occultists to rural
locations in the United States to carry out their nefarious research. One family,
a bit low on cash, welcome the Nazi academic believing him to be some sort of
strange historian. However, Wirth seems to know a lot more about them than they
do about him. He knows they have found a rare runic artefact on their property
and he plans to use its power to turn himself into some sort of demigod via the
means of some very dark magic.
Of
course with any quest for untrammelled power there is a hitch and Wirth needs
blood, human blood, fresh, from the source and lots of it. He first starts to
use the family’s daughter and then their son; in the end they begin to kidnap
vagrants and bums for his food to save their own skin. In return he grants them
immortality, but of course there is a catch, they must continue to feed him for
it they do not he will escape and kill with abandon. As he becomes more and
more powerful they use their own knowledge of the ancient runes to imprison him
but continue to captive locals to feed him.
As
time passes and we head into the Nineties, another local is captured and kept for
some years to feed the now zombie like Wirth. However, he escapes and enlists
his brother to return and kick some arse. Of course in doing so Wirth gets
released and a battle ensures with zombie dogs, living dead horses, runic
battles and lots of guts and gore. Of course the ending is open as the hero
finds that seven other families had Nazi occultists sent to them during the
Thirties so off he goes armed and ready to fight and destroy the Nazi occult
menace!
One
of the things that perhaps works against this film is
the name Joel Schumacher, people will expect a big budget extravaganza and when
they get a medium budget semi indie horror film they will be a little confused.
However, if you forget who directed it and enjoy it for what it is you will be
surprized at the creativity on show in Blood Creek.
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