Town Creek

Plot synopsis:
In 1936, a German professor, Richard Wirth, is hosted by the Wollners, a family of German emigrants in West Virginia. The Wollners believe him to be a visiting scholar, but Wirth turns out to be a Nazi occultist who seeks a Viking runestone buried on their property. When Wirth reveals he wants to use it for evil, he is interrupted by the family, who trap him in their basement and bind him through a ritual that requires frequent human sacrifices. Linked to Wirth, the family survive through the decades, operating as both captors and servants to Wirth, who they keep weakened.
In 2007, 25-year-old Evan Marshall is surprised when his older brother Victor suddenly appears after having disappeared during a camping trip in rural West Virginia. Victor explains that he has escaped his captors, and they quickly prepare to return for vengeance. The brothers head to the farm and confront the Wollners. They, in turn, warn the siblings about Wirth. They do not listen until Wirth gets out of the cellar and begins his terror. Wirth reveals that the reason Victor was able to escape was because Wirth knew that Victor would come back to the farm for revenge and would eventually free him from the Wollners, so he let Victor go on purpose. The brothers manage to poison and decapitate Wirth, but as a result the Wollners rapidly turn old and die. Before the youngest dies, she tells Evan that SS leader Heinrich Himmler has sent eight more Nazi agents to different farms. Evan finds a map that was under the farm and discovers that others like Wirth are at other farms. While Victor returns home to his family, Evan heads out to the other farms to stop the Nazis.

Tags: revenge, murder, violence

Review:
Joel Schumacher does have a reputation as a bit of a Hollywood hack (based chiefly on the abominable Batman Forever and Batman & Robin), but has actually turned out a surprising number of well-crafted films (Phone Booth, The Client, Flatliners, etc.) Thematically, Blood Creek is a departure even for him, but it's an excellent new spin on the usual horror-by-night formula.Blood Creek starts out looking like a sequel to Texas Chainsaw Massacre (or the similarly named Australian film Wolf Creek).
But it's got good performances, excellent visual design, all the blood and gore you could ask for, and a whole bunch of solid action that could almost make a film on its own.
But then again, the guy knows a bit about filmmaking, so this movie is pretty solid (and has a very good cast, not only Mr. Fassbender).While it seems uncertain and not tonally correct at times, has a few script flaws here and there, it does flow quite nicely (if you let it and you're not interrupting it with questions that is).
Thankfully, Blood Creek takes itself not very seriously and throws in lots of other random plot devices (Viking runes, zombies, the occult, the war in Iraq, etc.) that make little to no sense but serve the film well.If you like crappy modern B style horror films (I saw another commenter mention Drag Me To Hell, which I also enjoyed more than just about any other "big" release I've seen this year), then you can't really go wrong here.
The absolutely brilliant cast--including Michael Fassbender, Dominic Purcell, and Henry Cavill--does a stalwart job all round, and where some other directors and their performers would have allowed a picture like Blood Creek to succumb to low camp, everyone involved with the film plays it razor straight.
Henry Cavill (Stardust, Tristan + Isolde) and Dominic Purcell (Gravedancers, Blade Trinity) are fine as brothers forced to battle some serious evil in an undead Nazi occult agent played by the always great Michael Fassbender (Eden Lake, Inglorious Basterds).
The possibility of a sequel is set up without coming off as crass and the ending doesn't make you feel like you've wasted your time, like a lot of other horror movies succeed in doing.
Years later, two brothers are driven back to the house he stayed at on a mission of personal revenge, only to find the real perpetrator come back to life and try to exact his venom on them.This is the 'latest' Joel Schumacher film that it would seem has actually been held back for two years and appears to have arrived straight to DVD on these shores.
His last (and most recent) foray into the horror genre The Number 23 with Jim Carrey was a rockety, shambolic road indeed that showed a pretty decent (if never great) director veering off course a bit, but Blood Creek is sadly evidence of a past it hack who's gone over the hill.An unfathomable mess, the story is a ridiculous, convoluted mess, opening in a pretentious black and white film noir style before flitting the story to the present day and back into colour again, with a plot that's lost you about twenty minutes in, marred with a blurry, slap shot filming style that's even with the even more shambolic story, before finally revealing a villain that seems like Freddy Kruegger with a liver problem.It's all just a nonsensical, sad revalation of a director who's deteriorated into what could at best be called senility and at worst madness.
This movie was hands down the worst I have seen from director Joel Schumacher.I actually really like some of his films but was surprised (in a bad way) of this one.
In "Town Creek" (or "Blood Creek" depending on the place you live the title is changed) the story of two brothers (Henry Cavill and Dominic Purcell) must fight against a diabolic creature (Michael Fassbender) that needs human bodies and souls to being brought back to a new and eternal life (I might be wrong with this presentation but it's something like that) Now, did I care about this story and these characters?
1) One hour and half thrown to the wind with few compensations, Henry Cavill's looks being one of those, not to mention he's great playing an action hero and 2) I finally get it why they had to edit the film in that awful shaky way where you can't watch the images.
They did that to make average viewers who only uses one percent of the brain never see the countless flaws and mistakes this film has in terms of script, everything is so bloody distractive.If wasn't for Cavill and for a nice appearance of Michael Fassbender (the one at the beginning with the story's introduction with him playing a Nazi once again; the ones with visual effects and make up on his face are just boring), this film would be one of the worst I've seen in a long time.
In the case of Blood Creek , this is a Turkey big enough to feed a whole country at Christmas.As far as i can tell , this is the story of a family of German descendent's who call on the services of a Nazi general from Germany but only end up being haunted by this man who has occultist powers.I think that's what it was about anyway because this film was a complete and utter mess from start to finish.
I have no idea what director Joel Schumacher was on when he made this film .It looks like he shot a few hundred scenes , threw them on the cutting room floor and put them all back together in the wrong order.I haven't seen a horror film as bad as this since The number 23 - Directed by ?
However, with its action movie pacing, lots of blood and fun gore, and original elements, despite its flaws it a fun 90 minute ride.
So that's how I came to know about this movie plus it had the horror genre and Michael Fassbender so I chose Blood Creek to watch.
A Joel Schumacher helmed horror flick starring Michael Fassbender as a deranged, occult obsessed Nazi zombie vampire, hunted by Lincoln Burrows from Prison Break.
Introducing the later fun of the reanimated family members and letting them get bundled together with the continuous mentions of his occult studies and need for the black magic within here, there's some rather nice scenes to be had here which really plays a strong part getting a strong sense of action for this one.
Nowadays, I judge a film with how long it can hold my attention before I start logging onto the net and only half-watching.Blood Creek actually held my attention until the end.
Not that I'm saying it's a masterpiece, but it seemed to at least hold a shred of originally in its matrix.There is some bad though - lack of character development, rushed beginning (normally you have to wait ages to get into the story, but it seemed that the viewer got thrown in there pretty quick) and jerky/dark fight scenes where you can't tell who's who.However, I felt it was slightly original and you didn't quite know where it was going.
The brother returns late one night and they embark on a quest for revenge that takes them up against those most dastardly of villains - Nazis (and supernatural ones at that - and, let me tell you, they're the worst kind!).The gore was good (you may have to squint a bit to ignore the slightly bad 'horse on fire' scene), but, apart from that, it has enough twists and turns to hopefully keep you interested to the end..
Both Joel Schumacher and Fassbender have contributed to much stronger creations, the movie in question could have been a good start for a career, but not a work of already established filmmakers.
The story/screenplay by David Kajganich tries very hard to be substantial (Viking runes were left in about eight farms and the Nazi's preoccupation with the occult made them spend years tacking them down - the runes being a means toward immortality if you drink the right blood yada yada yada...), but in the end this is just another of the genre as SAW 1 - 6(?), Seven, Silence of the Lambs, Halloween 1 - 5, etc.
Good action and decent suspense, Blood Creek has all the makings for a solid movie of the week.
If you're trying to follow the film and realize the solid action you're seeing isn't motivated by a plot line you can make proper sense of, it just makes the movie not scary and confusing.
Shortly, it is the story of two brothers: one convinces the other to follow him in a revenge mission against a family who owns a farm, just to realize they got involved in something bigger than them, something related to supernatural forces that go back to 1936, when some Nazis were sent to America on a project to gain immortality.Sometimes I really don't get the point of a film: this is one of those times!.
Taking a slow paced cheap Action film and trying to make it Horror by adding blood and occult.
I'm a big Horror fan and have pretty much had my share of all types and sub-genres, and Blood Creek simply didn't feel like Horror to me.The story idea was very nice, but not too original (though nice tribute to the villain from Marvel's "Captain America" comics).
The only things that could be considered scary were the slight gore scenes (no medical pornography, just lots of blood), the mystical ideas and the fact that it happened at night (unless you count relation top Nazism as horrifying in the literal since of the word).So while there was a nice story idea, the potential was really left unused.
Blood Creak is nothing more than a Vampire/Zombie Hunter action film (like Blade or Van Helsing) with a touch (let's be generous and say 10%) of occult-horror.
The almost pathetic attempt to raise its level by adding names like Dominic Purcell and Michael Fassbender to the cast didn't help much, and I'm sure neither of them would list Blood Creak as one of their better performances.All in all, I would take the basic story idea of Nazi related occult and make an entire new film.
Blood Creek set a great dark mood, the story needed a little work but was good nonetheless(Who isn't kinda fascinated with Hitlers leanings toward the occult) The story itself was fascinating even if it was a little bit underdeveloped.
Not sure how a filmmaker as prolific as Joel "Lost Boys" Schumacher could make his return, in essence, to the vampire horror subgenre only to find his finished product, "Blood Creek," tossed into second-run theaters in a handful of locations with virtually no heads up to the popluace.
They take their weapons and return to the farm, where they discover that the Wollners have sealed off evil in their real estate and are paying a high price for this action."Town Creek" is a disappointing gore horror tale, considering that the director is Joel Schumacher.
Forgetting the various, small and big, plot holes (arriving at the farm-lair in the morning, then an hour later it's already night and oh man, we've procrastinated so long we haven't done anything; then again we never quite realise why the family has been feeding the trapped vampire, or how and why he made them immortal), the film doesn't really use its promising elements: the nazi-side of the villain is virtually forgotten after the intro.
It picks you up and drops you right in the middle of the action, for an exciting thrill ride.I found this movie to be surprisingly nice, despite the relatively unknown cast.Anything that have undead Nazis in it is somehow bound to be good entertainment.
And though the plot (or I should say, the second portion of the movie) isn't the most original (SEE: Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight) it's still entertaining and recommended for horror buffs.Just do what I did, brave through the first 40 or so minutes and let the pieces fall into place and have fun..
I saw the name Schumacher, and said 'what the hay'.I read the back of the cover so I had a pretty good idea of what was coming.Blood Creek starts strong.
For the third time this year comes a movie that on paper sounds like good ol' fashioned campy Nazi fun, and then turns out to be something quite a bit different than its premise, turning it in directions it really doesn't need to go.
At roughly this point the movie finally becomes interesting in a "What is happening here, and who is the badguy, and what was done?" sort of way until it finally gets established that the farm people are the never-aging caretakers of the Nazi necromancer from scene one, who have been keeping him from breaking out into the world and becoming more powerful than we can possibly imagine, only tonight, on a lunar eclipse, he is going to make one last bid to take over the world.
Meanwhile the dialog is absolutely ridiculous and gratuitous, all of this "Our father loved you more!" "You don't know what happened to me in Iraq!" "You don't understand what it's like being held in thrall by a Nazi necromancer!" "Who's the real victim here!" type of stuff that would be poignant character development in a slow-building drama where characters finally let themselves go over a cup of tea or something, but is absurd to be shouting at each other while being chased down by a 100 year old guy with a face he keeps peeling off and an eye growing out of his forehead.It's not often this happens, but, this movie should be remade immediately.
There are some really nice ideas that could make for a very entertaining and interesting movie if you cut the Iraq stuff, the Nazi stuff, the family drama stuff, and actually let some mystery and suspense build by getting characters to discover things instead of have everything explained to you in flat, wooden dialog.
Only then they discover that they not only face the immortal family, but also the devilish Nazi.This may sound like a good story, but it took the most strange and illogical turns and I kept feeling more and more puzzled and amazed and full of questions.
BLOOD CREEK is a low budget slice of rural horror that works pretty well for what it is, building an effectively queasy atmosphere from beginning to end.
Surprisingly enough this film was directed by former Hollywood big-shot Joel Schumacher, nowadays fallen on tougher times which I think is a shame as I always enjoyed his movies.Dominic Purcell and Henry Cavill (pre-MAN OF STEEL) play brothers who venture to a remote farmhouse that houses Nazis.
Blood Creek is a very stylish, very original, atmospheric, creepy, tense, interesting n efficient horror film that features a solid cast and good direction by the veteran Schumacher.
A Crazy Action Film Centered Around Occult,Badass Villain,Hitler & Animal Violence Proves Joel Schumacher Still Got It. this is it this director should be given a chance to direct a doom video game if they ever rebooted it i absolutely love that game this director Joel Schumacher is one of the best i have seen most people hate him for ruining batman in 90s but i believe he likes over the top stuff when telling his stories and distances himself from reality.this film town creek or blood creek is one crazy film its got a unexpected cast & narrative actors like Henry Cavil & Michael Fassbender are highlights specially Fassbender he plays a psycho immortal villain trying to kill everyone his makeup is total scary he crept me out his good acting skills are added bonus.i agree with reviewers here this film is bloody disgusting at many points it includes animal violence a dog is killed by knife & horse gets shot multiple time still he wont die due to magic on him by the bad guy but here is the catch the film is not scary at all in fact its funny as it takes itself way to seriously it could have been a better film if the villain won sadly he looses.the pace is slow it does move forward with a decent speed half an hour i hated the ending the bad guy was about to become more powerful he was already creating havoc the big problem here is that it mixed it too many genre in one like Nazi,Hitler,witch craft,occult along with hostage situations.the plot:the story is about Richard Wirth who a century ago does some wrong things to a family then in present time a captor visits his brother & seeks revenge on his captors they both go to the town unaware of the horror awaits them.i won't reveal the details of whats the connection between family & these 2 brothers & how they come on the same side to defeat the evil but like i said this project feels something is missing it tries is best and does a good job at keeping the viewer hooked but falls short on proper execution.now one may ask what is the point of this whole film why this lame story was written at all involving Hitler apart from fiction some people still believe he was into magic & nonsense i wont go in those matters period,all i know is Joel Schumacher made this only for getting kicks out of the characters on the screen to put it simply Michael Fassbender is the man that owns this film as Richar Wirth he overshadows everyone i mean i ignored the plot and what was going on i was just looking at him.Overall Town Creek aka Blood Creek 2009 should be liked for what it is it is passable as a cheesy horror suspense film with Rated R scenes my rating is 5/10.Recommended.