Review of Blood Creek (2009) by Gimly M — 25 Nov 2013

Joel Schumacher, the director of The Lost Boys (which I totally need to get around to reviewing) as well as The Number 23, The Phantom of the Opera, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin brought out Town Creek in 2009, which was released in Australia straight to DVD a year later as Blood Creek.

The film was run off a much smaller budget than Schumacher usually has, but he used it to best effect. He kept the cast small and solid, strongest of all was the antagonist (pictured above) Professor Richard Wirth, portrayed by Michael Fassbender (who ironically played the British agent working on the Allies' Operation Kino in Inglourious Basterds a year earlier). All in all the film was great, no one particular thing stood out though (other than Herr Wirth, who was absent from the first half of the film). It's an emotional ride, but the gore is over exaggerated in the rating.

Referencing real persons and events from World War II worked in favour of the film, helping along its own little canonical fantasy world. They chose to end the film in one of those "We could make another if we want to, but if we don't get the funding this is cool too!", which personally I love. It's always terrible when an ending is so definitive but they say "screw it" and make another purely for the money. Just as bad is when they leave a film completely unresolved without being certain of having a sequel in the works.

All in all though, I think the movie's good. It's never boring, but it's not really gonna stay with forever, not saying it isn't a cool concept, it just wasn't enough to really bring me to new heights or anything. Definitely recommend it to anyone who doesn't mind Nazis, blood and magic.

79%.

-Gimly.