Trailer for Joel Schumacher’s Blood Creek

Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on November 29, 2009

The latest effort from erratic director Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys, Flatliners, The Number 23) has had an equally erratic history. Initially known as Creek and then Town Creek, Blood Creek was slated for a wide theatrical release, but along the way, creative differences, rewrites and behind-the-scenes wrangling led Lionsgate to surreptitiously dump the film into a few second-run theaters in September (a strategy eerily similar to their treatment of Midnight Meat Train) — so few, in fact, that its release was barely reported and its box office take was essentially nil. Thus, the upcoming January 19 DVD release is basically Schumacher’s first straight-to-video feature film.

As troubled as it is, though, there’s enough talent involved — Schumacher, a cast that includes Dominic Purcell (Primeval, Prison Break), Henry Cavill (The Tudors) and Shea Whigham (Splinter), and writer David Kajganich (The Invasion, the upcoming It remake) — that it might be a hidden gem. In the meantime, check out the trailer.