Salvage [Blu-ray]

Solid and cerebral thriller
Kudos to Jeff and Josh Crook, who wrote and directed this taught little (80-minute) thriller and to the cast, especially Lauren Currie Lewis as the frequent victim and Chris Ferry as the killer.

The plot of "Salvage" is fairly simple, largely because the film can be described as Groundhog Day in hell. The film begins when Claire (Lewis), a clerk at a gas station, ends her shift at the station. Her boyfriend is supposed to pick her up to take her to her college classes, but a man named Duke (Ferry) shows up instead, claiming that Claire's boyfriend asked him to pick her up. She accepts the ride and is soon murdered. Almost immediately, she is back at the gas station, ending her shift once again. The gas station here plays essentially the same role "I Got You Babe" played in "Groundhog Day." In other words, the cycle is fairly simple: end shift at the gas station, get murdered, repeat.

While...

A Puxatany Nightmare
Imagine re-living the worst day of your life,
The day you were brutally murdered, over & over again.
Imagine the comedy "Groundhogs Day" was a horror movie.
A Puxatany Nightmare!
Well that's just what we have here.
A rock-bottom budget flick that had some genuinely creepy scenes,
tension as thick as my Uncle Rudy's skull,
as well as a liberal helping of gore.
It also features some great characters as well,
one of which my wife kept comparing to me, saying:
"that's soooo you....now do you know what you sound like??".
to which I responded:
"Yeah I know what I sound like, but he's the best character in the movie ...no?"
This movie also featured some great one-liners:
"It's all about how you feel,
It's all bout how you feel,................when I cut your head off"
The whole time I was watching it I kept thinking;
"Somebody!! Anybody!!, needs to give these guys more money to do an even better film."...

INTERESTING LOW BUDGET HORROR
I held off watching this movie because it had a "B" grade cover plus it didn't sound good reading it on the box. I was ready to write my typical bad review, but the movie never turned bad. The twist at the end made the movie a worth while view and to be honest, I didn't see it coming. There is only a slight amount of gore, and no nudity. There is an intense scene where Claire is being brutally beaten which made me feel a bit uneasy. It looks like they did the Penthouse trick of putting Vaseline along the edge of the camera lens to give the viewer that blurred artsy look, or in this case a surreal atmosphere. It is really low budget, but it worked in this film. A horror/slasher that makes you think.

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