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I’ve been bringing you news about Joel Schumacher’s Nazi slasher film Blood Creek for the past few months. Lionsgate gave it the Midnight Meat Train theatrical release, dumping it in a few theaters before pulling it for DVD. Said DVD is set to arrive on January 19th, but to get you in the mood, the company has released a red-band trailer for the flick.

The quality isn’t the greatest, but the movie looks interesting. Of course, I’m a sucker for anything involving Nazis and the occult, so maybe you should check the clip out for yourself before taking my word for it.

As always, here’s the synopsis:

Acclaimed director Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys, Tigerland) takes the reins of Blood Creek, a tense supernatural horror-thriller concerning two brothers who find themselves at the center of a terrifying occult experiment. In 1936, the Wollners, a German family living in Town Creek, West Virginia, are contacted by the Third Reich to host a visiting scholar. In need of money, they accept Professor Richard Wirth into their home, unaware of the Third Reich’s practices in the occult and Wirth’s real mission that will keep the family bound for decades to come. After 71 years, in 2007, Evan Marshall’s life has stalled at 25 years old when he is left without answers after his older brother Victor’s disappearance from a camping trip near Town Creek. 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 their boat and follows Victor back to Town Creek on a mission of revenge that will test them in every possible way. The DVD features audio commentary with director Joel Schumacher.

I’ve still yet to see Joel Schumacher’s Blood Creek–because Lionsgate decided to dump it in about a hundred second run theaters for a week before pulling it out of theaters completely. I’m not sure why they continue to follow this business model, but I find it incredibly annoying–and I have a hard time bringing myself to promote their releases because of it. However, you can’t skip talking about potentially interesting movies just because the distributor sucks. And that’s why you continue to see coverage of Lionsgate releases here.

Getting off that tangent, that’s the cover art for the DVD release of Blood Creek over on the left. The short description is that it’s a horror film with Nazis. The longer description can be read in the next paragraph…

Acclaimed director Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys, Tigerland) takes the reins of Blood Creek, a tense supernatural horror-thriller concerning two brothers who find themselves at the center of a terrifying occult experiment. In 1936, the Wollners, a German family living in Town Creek, West Virginia, are contacted by the Third Reich to host a visiting scholar. In need of money, they accept Professor Richard Wirth into their home, unaware of the Third Reich’s practices in the occult and Wirth’s real mission that will keep the family bound for decades to come. After 71 years, in 2007, Evan Marshall’s life has stalled at 25 years old when he is left without answers after his older brother Victor’s disappearance from a camping trip near Town Creek. 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 their boat and follows Victor back to Town Creek on a mission of revenge that will test them in every possible way. The DVD features audio commentary with director Joel Schumacher.

The film will be available on DVD this January 19th.

Don’t look now, but Nazi horror flicks are starting to pop up all over the place. We’ve already had Dead Snow, a few days back we got a teaser trailer for Martin Bech’s Final Solution, and yesterday saw the announcement that Joel Schumacher’s Blood Creek is finally coming to DVD on January 19th.

Blood Creek has had a long and winding road to release–it’s suffered title changes, delays, and then got the Midnight Meat Train treatment from Lionsgate earlier this year (meaning they dumped it in a few theaters so it could die a quick theatrical death), but maybe it’ll find an appreciative audience at long last on DVD.

Here’s the plot breakdown:

Acclaimed director Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys, Tigerland) takes the reins of Blood Creek, a tense supernatural horror-thriller concerning two brothers who find themselves at the center of a terrifying occult experiment. In 1936, the Wollners, a German family living in Town Creek, West Virginia, are contacted by the Third Reich to host a visiting scholar. In need of money, they accept Professor Richard Wirth into their home, unaware of the Third Reich’s practices in the occult and Wirth’s real mission that will keep the family bound for decades to come. After 71 years, in 2007, Evan Marshall’s life has stalled at 25 years old when he is left without answers after his older brother Victor’s disappearance from a camping trip near Town Creek. 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 their boat and follows Victor back to Town Creek on a mission of revenge that will test them in every possible way. The DVD features audio commentary with director Joel Schumacher.