Blood Creek
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Blood Creek |
| Original title | Town Creek |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joel Schumacher |
| script | David Kajganich |
| production |
Paul Brooks Robyn Meisinger |
| music | David Buckley |
| camera | Darko Suvak |
| cut | Mark Stevens |
| occupation | |
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Blood Creek (OT: Town Creek , AT: Creek ) is an American horror film from 2009 by Joel Schumacher .
action
Three years before the start of the Second World War, in 1936, Heinrich Himmler sent the German occultist Richard Wirth to America. He stayed there with the Wollner family, who built their farm on an old Nordic rune stone . What the family does not suspect: Wirth wants to receive eternal life and a third eye through runic magic . He enchants the family, who however manage to get behind his plans in time. The Wollner family now has to live forever, but keeps Wirth prisoner on their farm. But Wirth needs blood to survive and still has power over the Wollners. At first, family members like Liese were used as blood donors, but over time the family captured strangers and brought them before Wirth.
In the present: The Iraq war veteran Victor Alan Marshall, who was captured by the Wollners, finally escapes the family and seeks out his brother Evan Marshall. Without letting him know the background, he drags him armed to the farm. There they kill a member of the family because the brothers do not yet know that the family is forced to act, and they take Liese Wollner and her grandmother prisoner. Slowly they discover the secret, but Wirth breaks free when Victor tries to kill the father of the family, who ultimately helps the Marshalls so that Wirth finally disappears from their lives. Wirth uses death magic and blood spells to bring animals and humans under his spell and to storm the family home, which everyone is in. He can no longer enter the house himself, as the family has painted old Nordic letters on the entrances that Wirth cannot pass.
Together with Liese, the Marshalls devise a plan to kill Wirth: The family has developed a kind of armor from the bones of his ancestors, which Wirth cannot destroy, because Wirth cannot rise up against his own blood; the blood of his ancestors and his own are fatal to Wirth; it works like poison for him. While Victor distracts Wirth, Liese prepares Evans' open wounds with the bone marrow of Wirth's ancestors, and her plan succeeds: Wirth dies when he tries to suck Evan out, shortly before the third eye can give him immortality. The surviving members of the Wollner family now age rapidly and die. Shortly before her death, however, Liese informed Evan that Himmler had once sent eight more occultists to America. After they burn the farm down, Evan sets out to look for the remaining men.
production
The cast of the main role also changed several times, so first Chris Klein and then Jesse Metcalfe should take on the role of Evan Marshall. Eventually, Henry Cavill was hired for the lead role. The film was shot from March 1st to March 25th 2007 in Bucharest , Romania . During the shooting, there were differences of opinion between director Joel Schumacher and screenwriter David Kajganich . Part of the script was then rewritten by Schumacher.
criticism
The potential of Joel Schumacher's Blood Creek has been wasted, according to many critics. The film was only shown in a few cinemas and disappeared relatively early in video stores . In German-speaking countries, Lionsgate released it directly on DVD on April 23, 2010 . The film wouldn't be outstanding, but definitely worth a recommendation for horror fans, not least because of the good performances of the actors and the solid direction by Schumacher.
“ Blood Creek is a very good horror film - a truly rare example - that has all the elements that make a successful shocker. Joel Schumacher reduces a potentially tangled story to the essentials, namely to the horror and the threatened people in the middle. A juicy and exciting journey into hell, which also lives from the limitation of time and space, from exquisite visuality and, last but not least, its good actors. What a pleasant surprise! "
Web links
- Blood Creek in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Trivia. Internet Movie Database , accessed January 13, 2012 .
- ^ Review. (No longer available online.) Bloody as Hell, January 24, 2010, archived from the original on January 28, 2010 ; Retrieved January 13, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ William Goss: Review. Moviefone.com, accessed January 13, 2012 .
- ↑ Kurt Meinicke: Critique. Movie Maze, accessed January 13, 2012 .
- ^ Hasko Baumann: Review. The Manifesto, June 27, 2010, accessed January 13, 2012 .
