Blood Creek (2009)

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

Director:

Joel Schumacher

Writer:

David Kajganich

Stars:

Henry Cavill, Dominic Purcell, Emma Booth

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Henry Cavill	...	Evan Marshall
Dominic Purcell	...	Victor Alan Marshall
Emma Booth	...	Liese Wollner
Michael Fassbender	...	Richard Wirth
Rainer Winkelvoss	...	Otto Wollner
László Mátray	...	Karl Wollner (as Laszlo Matray)
Joy McBrinn	...	Mrs. Wollner
Shea Whigham	...	Luke Benny
Tony Barger	...	Larry
Douglas Roger	...	Cop #1
Michael Ntumba	...	Cop #2
Razvan Oprea	...	Cop #3
Ana Popescu	...	Meth Freak Girlfriend
Florin Piersic Jr.	...	Scrawny Meth Freak
Gerard McSorley	...	Mr. Marshall

Storyline

In 1936, the Wollners - a German family living in rural Morgan County, West Virginia - are contacted by the Third Reich to host a visiting scholar, Professor Richard Wirth. In need of money, they accept Wirth into their home. Wirth's grand occult project seals the Wollners off from the rest of the world and makes them players in a horrifying game of survival. After 71 years, in 2007, Evan Marshall's life has stalled at twenty-five years old. Left without answers after his older brother Victor's disappearance from a camping trip near Town Creek, he has tried to move on. But when Victor returns one night, very much alive and having escaped his captors, Evan asks no questions - at his brother's request, he loads their rifles, packs up their boat and follows him back to Town Creek on a mission of revenge that will test them in every possible way...

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Plot Keywords:

farm | barn | nazi | immortality | brother brother relationship | 

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Genres:

Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong bloody violence and gore, and some language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English German

Release Date:

9 October 2009 (UK)

Also Known As:

Creek

Filming Locations:

Romania

Company Credits

Production Co:

Gold Circle Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS DTS Dolby Digital

Color:

Black and White Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The production was filmed on locations in Romania (Bucharest and MediaPro Studios).

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Goofs

(at around 35 mins) The guy lays his gun on the ground and in the next shot he is carrying it.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Narrator: In the early '30s, Adolf Hitler and his inner circle became obsessed with the occult, believing that the black arts were key to their plan for world domination. Nazi agents travelled the globe in search of ancient Nordic relics known as rune stones. They believed if they harnessed the power of these stones, nothing could stop the march of the Master Race. The symbols inscribed in these stones were said to describe the path... to immortality.

User Reviews

Bloody, underrated gore fest

A Joel Schumacher helmed horror flick starring Michael Fassbender as a deranged, occult obsessed Nazi zombie vampire, hunted by Lincoln Burrows from Prison Break. Sounds like a flick from an alternate dimension that doesn't exist, right? Well it's out there, tough to find as it was somehow buried around it's 2009 release, and relegated to a relic before it was even a decade old. Shame, because it's a ton of warped, bloody fun. Officially titled 'Blood Creek' on iTunes, it can also be found as 'Town Creek' or simply 'Runes' elsewhere, but like they say, a rose by any other name. Fassbender is all kinds of scary in a black and white prologue as a Nazi occult agent who shows up at a rural American farm to study ancient Nordic runes which may hold the key to resurrection of the dead. His chilling work initially is nothing compared to the balls-out, gory makeup covered incarnation he gets to prance around in later though. In present day, two brothers race into the foggy backwaters to stamp out this evil, and they're played by an intense Dominic Purcell, as well as Superman himself, Henry Cavill. Not a whole lot of time is spent on character development for all involved, the film choosing instead to jump headlong into a notably gory free for all, banding together with the poor German family who has had to deal with this psycho for almost a generation on their farm. At a crisp ninety minutes, there ain't much time for anything but action and gore, with a few scarcely scattered, breathless moments of exposition that were already made clear in that prologue, the one interlude of the film that isn't soaked in adrenaline. Hats off to Fassbender under all that chatty, gooey makeup, his physicality is really menacing, and who else gets to play a Nazi vampire zombie who pounds a metal stake into his own forehead to make room for an emerging third eye? Truly a villain for the ages, had the film been allowed to gain any notoriety. And what other film can boast a sequence in which Purcell eagerly blasts zombified, rabid horses with a shotgun, chunks flying all over the barn? Such are the levels of disturbed imagination on parade. Poor Schumacher though, really. This would've been his first good film in awhile back then, and the studio goes in for the kill on every single marketing front, not even giving it decent room to breathe on DVD. At least it's still floating about on iTunes, where any horror fan would be rewarded with a rental.