Salvage (2008)
Oh my… What to say about Salvage… Well, this British film from 2008 is a mercifully short 78 minutes. There are not a lot of actors that you have to remember who are. That’s pretty much it – sorry.
While this is a low-budget film, and that is really obvious, there is nothing wrong with low budget films. The movie did not at all match the descriptions on the Netflix box. The movie isn’t scary. It makes little sense the whole time. It just isn’t very good.
Beth (Neve McIntosh) is a single mother who has her daughter coming home for Christmas. The daughter walks in on her and this guy having sex. The daughter gets angry and runs off to the neighbors. Beth calls the neighbors and her own daughter nasty names when they tell her to leave and let the daughter cool down at their home. After getting the door slammed in her face, SWAT team police and army units descend upon the town and knock her down. Helicopters fly overhead. A neighbor wanders into the street (he’s bloody and brandishing a cooking knife) and the police shoot him. They tell Beth to get back in her home and stay there. The guy she was sleeping with earlier wants to know why she’s distraught and why they shot the guy. Repeatedly asking her if he had a weapon, to which she kept saying “he wasn’t a terrorist” but finally admitting, yeah, he had a knife.
Strange things happen. People run around screaming and trying to get in their house only to be killed in a pool of blood. If they try to leave soldiers are right there telling them to get back in.
Well, not to ruin it for you if you still want to watch it … I’ll stop there, but that’s pretty much how it goes. They never do logical things, there is no explanations given for anything that happens to these people by the army. The phones and power are turned off. So, do yourself a favor too, turn off the tv and don’t watch this one.
Thanks.
Things learned from this movie:
- Barricading your doors means it’s ok to leave the sliding glass doors in the back unlocked and free of furniture.
- If it’s Christmas Eve and your expecting your daughter home, its ok to bring a guy home and sleep with him an hour or so before she’s to arrive.
- Soldiers hold onto their hand-held radios really hard.
- Getting a radio in a time of crisis when people are being killed is more important that getting an assault rifle.
- When you are splattered and covered with blood, washing up means making sure your hands are mostly clean.
- If monsters or something is outside attacking your community, you are better off going to the other side of the duplex and hiding out there.
Rated Not Rated. 76 minutes (1 hour 16 minutes). Profanity. Nudity – check. Beth is totally nude, but its kinda dark when her daughter surprises her. She then puts on a shirt later and you watch. Gore, some gorey scenes with fake blood if that bothers you.
