Salvage (film)

Infobox Film
name = Salvage
writer = Joshua Crook, Jeffrey Crook
director = Joshua Crook, Jeffrey Crook
runtime = 79 min.
imdb_id = 0492754
amg_id = 1:341818

"Salvage" is a 2006 horror film by the Crook Brothers. It was an official selection of the 2006 Sundance Festival [http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117929440.html?categoryid=31&cs=1 "Variety" magazine review of "Salvage"] ] . According to the directors' commentary, the film was shot for around $25,000. It stars Lauren Currie Lewis as Claire Parker, Cody Darbe as her boyfriend Jimmy, and Chris Ferry as the killer, Duke Desmond.

Plot

After a disturbing title sequence establishing dread and foreboding in a salvage yard, the film proper begins with Claire closing out her graveyard shift at the convenience store. She is to be picked up by her boyfriend and driven home but instead someone else, who identifies himself as "Duke" is driving her boyfriend's truck. After an unsettling ride home during which Duke makes increasingly overt sexual comments about her, Claire closes herself into the safety of her house, but Duke shows up at her door again, claiming she's dropped an earring. Claire refuses to let him in, and he drops the earring on her front porch and apparently leaves. Claire spends several agonizing moments crouched in the doorway retrieving the earring, but upon successfully recapturing it and pulling the door closed, finds her back door has swung open. Duke has entered the house from the rear and proceeds to brutally murder Claire.

Claire awakens at the convenience store again, and all seems well. She decides that she's had a bad dream. She begins to repeat her day, except this time her boyfriend does come to pick her up, and she makes it home and to school. However, unsettling hints begin to appear. The sequence of events once again leads to a moment where Claire is being murdered, and she again awakens in the convenience store. As each sequence leads towards her death, she hears from time to time people who she trusts talking just out of earshot about how she's "catching on." Finally she puts together the clues and the disturbing truth is revealed.

Cast

*Lauren Currie Lewis as Claire Parker
*Cody Darbe as Jimmy
*Chris Ferry as Duke Desmond
*Maureen Olander as Claire's Mother
*John P. Miller as Detective Miller
*Jessica DeLong as Jen
*Sam Dahler as Sam
*John Briley as the Custodian
*Joseph M. Colombo as the Professor

Music

Composer Evan Wilson provided the original score for the movie. Additional music is provided by Devola, a group from the Ohio area (themselves named after a geographic location) where the film was shot.

Trivia

According to the directors' commentary the film was shot entirely with digital video, accounting for the greatly reduced budget of the film. Additionally the credits reveal that the cast served many "crew" roles, with Lauren Lewis responsible for hair and makeup among others. There has been no apparent theatrical release of the film, it is however available in DVD release.

Bernie Mac had expressed interest in the role of "Dark Master" but was unable to reconcile his schedule with that of the films. He financed the films $25,000 dollar budget by selling some of his furniture.

Released on DVD as "Gruesome" in Australia and in the UK.

Additional Links

*imdb title|0492754|Salvage

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