Salvage (V)
| release date | July 6 2010 |
| studio | Revolver Entertainment |
| director | Lawrence Gough |
| writer | Lawrence Gough |
| starring | Shaun Dooley, Linzey Cocker, Neve McIntosh |
| site | salvagethefilm.com |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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Personally I don’t really consider this a zombie movie. Anyway it was a pretty entertaining movie. There was some nice suspense here and there. The actors were decent. I wasn’t expecting much from this but it was much better then I had expected.
I thought that it was pretty creepy and suspenseful but not great. The acting was decent but I could hardly understand what they were saying half the time under their thick accents that I was really close to turning the subtitles on, yes it was that bad so turn the volume way up. It was pretty gory and graphic in certain scenes but nothing to write home about, there were also some solid scares and it was pretty terrifying like they claim on the cover but nothing to lose sleep over. This was like a generic version of The Crazies remake and [Rec.] but kind of lackluster in comparison and in the end it was too short with not a strong enough story or script to hold it together so forgettable. Overall it was decent but just same old same old and it just wasn’t effective enough or fresh enough for it to stand out from the rest of the pack in this genre I say wait for television and I have nothing else to say but next! 2.5 out of 5 stars.
A pretty ok British low budget horror in the vein of “The Crazies”.
Many things about “Salvage” are absolutely great:
terrific acting, interesting character development, believable characters, a charming soundtrack (pretty similar to the “One Hour Photo” score), some neat gore and, a few jump scares and a brilliant script full of unexpected twists and turns.
Sadly there are also many disappointing things:
the poor story (starts out interesting but ends up pretty lame), lots of unanswered questions, an extremely dissatisfying ending, boring-looking settings and some dull and uninteresting scenes.
I’d say it’s worth checking out, but don’t expect a masterpiece.
Great movie on a very limited budget, definitely worth a watch! Recommended
Salvage: ***
Salvage is a taut, low-budget British horror flick in which residents of a small Liverpool community are terrorized by an unseen, mrderous menace. British Special Forces troops are on the scene to handle the situaiton, but are they salvation or an even bigger threat to the townspeople than whatever’s roaming the village.
Jodie (Linzey Cockey) is driven to the community by her father (Dean Andrews) on Christmas Eve to visit and hopefully reconcile with Beth (Neve McIntosh), her estranged mother. When Jodie wanders upstairs to find Beth banging a stranger named Kieran (Shaun Dooley), she flees the house for the solace of a neighbor she knows. Beth’s entreaties don’t move Jodie to come out, and they’re abruptly cut short when a soldier shoves her to the ground and admonishes her to stay down.
From there, Beth is forcefully ushered back into her house where Kieran waits, sure that all this action is in response to a terrorist attack. Under siege in her own home, Beth’s anxiety level goes through the roof when she and Kieran hear thumping coming from upstairs. When the pair investigate, their fear reaches a fever pitch, and Salvage kicks into high gear with intensity and terror.
Director Lawrence Gough never concocted anything that truly frightened me, and his scenes with Beth and Kieran mulling their fates while trapped in the house dragged on to the point where they induced boredom. On the plus side of the equation, Gough creates considerable suspense and tension in Salvage’s second half, especilly in scenes where Beth and Kieran encounter the largely unseen menace and when they confront the troops, who may or may not be friendly.
McIntosh and Dooley are both capable actors who carry the bulk of the movie, and they both turn in decent performances. McIntosh emotes effectively as Beth desperately searches for her daughter, with constant danger looming all about her. Dooley’s performance becomes particularly moving when Kieran shows unexpected valor in the face of an increasingly perilous situation.
Salvage is a pretty good example of the glood-soaked movies British horror filmmakers have cranked out in recent years. While it suffers from slow-going in its first half, the second half should satisfy both horror fans and conspiracy buffs. As of August, 2012, it’s available on Netflix streaming, and it’s solid, suspenseful entertainment.
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From the poster I was expecting a zombie film on quite a large scale, sort of The Crazies style with lots of forces coming to defeat hordes of zombies. but, what I actually got was something quite different. Salvage begins by cleverly switching character point of views. From the opening you expect the film to be seen all from the eyes of the daughter, when actually the film switches to the mother. It’s a very personal and involving viewpoint and I found myself invested in her character. The film is also not so much about zombies, but more about a weird looking super-zombie attacking people on the set of brookside. It has some tense and thrilling moments, although it does drag sometimes with some slow scenes, however overall it was an entertaining if not forgettable way to spend 1hr 10mins. However, I could think of much more intense ways to spend that similar short length of time *cough* Inside!
+ Well-developed main characters
+ From the beginning till the climax, it actually balances/flows the horror elements and plot very naturally
+ Almost nonexistent, or at least very subtle, film score, allowing silence to intensify the viewer
+ You don’t get to see the creature whatsoever until near the end, which adds to the terror