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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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04.07.10
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In 1936 a German family in Pennsylvania take in a Nazi soldier named Wirth (Michael Fassbender of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS) who is studying the occult forces. They had dug up a huge Runestone when they first made the farm and it's in the cellar of the barn. Wirth is able to draw power from it. In fact, he manages to bring a young girl's dead pet bird back to life, sort of. Then we go to present day, to the story of two brothers.
Evan Marshall is a paramedic who feels guilty that his brother, Victor (Dominic Purcell) disappeared two years before. He had just returned from the war in Iraq and then he mysteriously vanished. So he takes care of his invalid father and looks in on his nephews and sister in law. Then, one day, his brother shows up, filthy, with long hair and a beard. He says he was kept captive on a farm ten miles away all this time and he wants to go back for revenge. Evan agrees to go with him. This turns out to be the same farm seen at the beginning of the movie--and everyone in that German family appears about the same age, which is really strange.
Wirth is still alive and he's the one who was feeding on Victor's blood for the past two years. He is awaiting for a lunar eclipse and hopes he will attain a "third eye", which will make him all powerful. Of course, the night the brothers decide to go back there is the night of the lunar eclipse. The brothers also learn that the family is terrified of him and have barred him from entering their house with the use of ancient rune symbols.
Wirth is an intimidating monster and there are some cool scenes, such as with the zombie horse (which makes me think what a great job they would be able to do nowadays with the effects for a TOMB OF THE BLIND dead remake!). It's definitely worth checking out.
Directed by Joel Schumacher, who partly redeems himself for having directed BATMAN & ROBIN (1997).
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Rating: 7.5 out of 10.0 - 2 votes cast total
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