Synopsis: A man returns years after his mysterious disappearance and leads his brother on a mission of revenge at a rural Maryland farmhouse, where they become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich.Well what do you know... a fairly original script for a change. Not a remake, not a sequel. To sum this thing up... a Nazi vampire/zombie dude is feeding off living sacrifices and this guy and his bro, who escaped from the place only to return pissed off and with weapons, are trying to put the kill stamp on him.
It starts off sort of weird as the story unfolds then sort of becomes a house siege type movie, ala Night of the Living Dead or Dog Soldiers. There is blood, oh man there is blood, and there is a lot of violence. Things get really wild. The Nazi, who sort of reminds me of The Creeper from Jeepers Creepers, raises the dead to do his bidding. At one point he raises a horse (after he himself killed it) and sends it into the freakin' house and it's stomping and chomping our heroes. An instant classic horror scene. There are some other creative bits as well.
I'm not sure why it's called Blood Creek as the place where they're at is called Town Creek, and there's never any blood getting near the creek. The movie's original name was actually Town Creek, which is pretty lame too. I'd have gone with Nazi Bloodbath or something. Maybe Zombie Horse From Hell.
And another bonus... it's directed by Joel Schumacher, who forever has a pass from me on anything he does because of one of my all-time favorite vampire films The Lost Boys. He also directed the excellent film Flatliners. His direction here is very good and this movie definitely is well above the quality of most straight-to-DVD releases. It did have a small (very small) theatrical release last year.
So if you think a big ole gory film with zombie horses, ancient ruins, Nazi necromancer vampires, re-animated corpses and a bone suit of armor sounds like a pretty insane concept... well, you're right. And it's pretty entertaining as well. Not a bad little direct-to-DVD title by any means. Well worth checking out.
7.5/10
