Salvage (2006)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Absolutely the worst movie.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Please read this review only after you have watched the movie.In Salvage we met Claire, a teen who lives in a small city with her mom and works as a clerk at a local supermarket. She begins to have dreams in witch she is brutally murdered by a stranger who came to pick her up from work one day instead of her boyfriend. Now she must find out why is this happening to her and discover who is the mysterious man that appears in her visions.As you can see I didn't talk too much about the topic because is so strange and is hard to discuss about it. In the beginning when I've seen Claire beaten up I thought that I will see what is going to happen next but the big surprise was that in reality nothing happened. Then these visions reappear and vanishes again and so on. I must say that the film is unique in it's own bizarre way. The horror scenes are few but scary and gory. This movie is going to be hard to understand even for a fan of mystery genre. I truly did not get it, after all was it about multiple personality? Or body transportation? Leaves you with a lot of questions in your mind. From a horror/thriller in the end got a bit SF but clearly the type of movie that you will not forget too soon.

i love picking up those horror collector sets out of the clearance bins. 5 bucks for 8 or 10 movies. majority of them are strictly B fare... as in bush! entertaining in their own right, but usually pretty forgettablebut... this one was a hidden little gem. well worth the watch. production values are decent; acting is good enough; but its the original story idea that i loved. kept me guessing most of the way through at least... its not a story idea that i've seen yet, and i've seen hundreds of these. seems like something someone would have done by nowhats off to the writers for coming up with something new

This is what I am talking about America. How hard was it for some independent filmmaker to make one of the best horror movies I've ever seen. Not to mention with the same budget I probably have to make my horror movie. I'm not going to get into what it's about it is low-budget, but the story is amazing and the payoff at the end is wow! And the acting is not so bad. I would recommend this to any horror fan that is sick and tired of teenybopper horror films. I am so glad I rented this back when it came out. I have now bought it three times. Once from Blockbuster used, and then it got stolen. Then I bought it from a place called buybacks and it had a different better cover on it. And now I'm watching it on Blu-ray!

19-year-old teenager Claire Parker (a strong and engaging performance by the pretty Lauren Currie Lewis) has nightmarish premonitions of her forthcoming savage death at the evil hands of vicious killer Duke Desmond (a superbly creepy portrayal by Chris Ferry). Can Claire avoid this grisly fate or is she destined to be horribly murdered? Writers and director Joshua and Jeffrey Crook do an expert job of creating and sustaining a powerfully eerie and unsettling mood, relate the absorbing story at a steady pace, skillfully develop a good deal of suspense, and pull off a total whammy of a startling surprise twist ending. Kudos are also in order for the uniformly sound acting from a capable cast: Lewis makes for a highly sympathetic heroine, Ferry likewise impresses as one genuinely scary crazed psycho, plus there are nice supporting turns by Cody Darbe as Claire's jerky, amorous boyfriend Jimmy, John P. Miller as the skeptical Sheriff Miller, Maureen Olander as Claire's weary mother, and Jessica DeLong as Claire's spunky best gal pal Jen. Evan Wilson's spirited shivery'n'spooky score does the skin-crawling trick. John Barrett Ashmore's polished cinematography, the flavorsome evocation of the rural region, the tight 80 minute running time, a cool alternative rock soundtrack, and several shocking outbursts of brutal violence (the face peeling scene is especially nasty) all further enhance the overall fine quality of this pleasingly trim, tense and truly terrifying low-budget fright feature sleeper.