Eye Candy #257 - "Blood Creek"

Blood Creek: An interesting premise handled clumsily.  Before the Spanish arrived in the 15th century, Vikings discovered America.  While beaten back by the native population, they left behind mystical runestones in various locations which, when deciphered, grant immortality amongst other powers.  In the 1930s, the Nazis dispatched specialists to rural America to locations where these runestones were discovered to unlock and harness their powers.  One such Nazi was Wirth (Michael Fassbender, who you would think would be above this kind of horror-schlock), who arrives in Town Creek, West Virginia, where a runestone was discovered by the Wollners, a family of German émigrés.  Flash forward to the present:  paramedic Evan Marshall (Henry Cavill) lives near Town Creek, where his older brother Victor (Dominic Purcell), an Iraq War veteran, disappeared without a trace.  When Victor reappears with no explanation, he and Evan arm themselves for bear and head to Town Creek at Victor’s urging.  Finding themselves at the Wollners’ farm, Evan is soon over his head, dealing with a nigh-immortal Nazi madman that uses blood to power all kinds of supernatural doings, like resurrecting the dead and controlling animals.  It’s closer to a vampire movie than anything, but it’s not really that entirely that either (it‘s not a zombie movie at all).  Joel Schumacher is the director on this one, proving that his ignominious fall from grace hasn’t hit bottom yet.   Woodchuck sez, “Coulda, should been better.”