So, I had the unfortunate experience of seeing "Blood Creek" at my local dollar theater today.Ooof, aye dios mio!
When I originally IMDb'd this flick, it brought up an intriguing synopsis about an interesting 2006 film from Canada:
"According to a popular magazine, the 58th spookiest place in the world is the Ashbrooke Barn in the small town known as Blood Creek. Local legend states that if you perform a specific ritual in the barn and the old house up the road, you'll see visions of Zeke Ashbrooke, a farmer who went mad and hung himself, his wife and children. Rumour has it that Zeke's wife - now known as The Dark Lady - still roams the woods of Blood Creek. This summer five young campers will venture to Blood Creek and accept a dare that could cost them their lives." (IMDb.com)
BUT...
The film I actually saw is titled "Town Creek"on IMDb; a Joel Schumacher directed clone of Batman & Robin on the crap-o-meter.
This is what IMDb says about "Town Creek" aka "Blood Creek":
"A man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich." (IMDb.com)
Do you seriously think I'd sit through a movie with such a synopsis???
What angers me even more is that the IMDb rating for this film is 8.6/10! WTF SERIOUSLY!? (This is why I prefer RottenTomatoes.com over IMdb ratings)
This film can be summarized in two words..."NAZI" and "ZOMBIE"...and oh yea... "CRAP".
That makes three.
You'd think a film involving Nazi zombie's and gratuitous gore would be amazing...but no. Not when you take it as serious as H1N1.
This film stars Dominic Purcell from "Prison Break", Henry Cavill... who might as well be a Josh Duhammel bastard clone, and Michael Fassbender...who you might recognise from another Nazi-based film this summer, Inglorious Basterds.
Yes folks it's official, Michael Fassbender is the go-to-guy for Nazi Gestapo, alive or undead.
If only Schumacher had the insight to take the film into the realm of farce. The film would've been ingenious! Think "Shaun of the Dead" but with NAZIS!
I mean, what do people hate more than Zombies and Nazis?? NOTHING!
Just add Ricky Gervais and you've got comic (and box office) gold!
But alas... we're stuck with a boring, laughable, zombie, Schindler's List.
To quote ENCE1981, a loyal IMDb member: "The concept is so insane, so bereft of screaming teenagers, so utterly lacking in irony despite the absolute insanity splashed upon the screen, it's bound to turn a lot of viewers off. To make matters worse, a tedious black and white prologue complete with unnecessary voice-over stains the beginning of the film, hinting too much at the later goings-on when it would have been more fun to learn the truth as the film surges forward."
The prologue WAS rediculous. Shot entirely in B&W and about 30 minutes too long (granted, it was only 32 minutes in length). The first 2 minutes were promising but then... to quote a popular musical: "Nothing kills a show more than too much exposition".
I kept waiting for the film to live up to its potential, in my mind, but eventually it ended up like an episode of "Prison Break" which unfortunatly had dropped the soap.
-RD
