• Mar 20
• Brit indy horror SALVAGE: Review
• Posted by Deljhp - 20/03/10 at 09:15 AM

Director: Lawrence Gough. Review: Adam Wing.

If I was to tell you that Salvage is written by Hollyoaks scribe Colin O’Donnell, taking place on and around the set of Brookside Close in Liverpool, you’d be forgiven for moving onto the next article, forgiven but ultimately foolish. Salvage is the debut feature from director Lawrence Gough, a low budget horror movie that has built up quite the following at festival screenings, and on DVD it delivers one of the most enjoyable nights in of the year.

Its Christmas Eve and teenager Jodie (Linzey Cocker) is travelling to her mother’s house for the holidays, after a blazing row she storms over to her friend’s house on the other side of the street. Jodie’s mother Beth (Neve McIntosh) has had company for the night, not that she can remember his name (Eden Lake’s Shaun Dooley) and wasn’t expecting her daughter’s arrival until later that day. Things go from bad to worse when a group of heavily armed military personnel storm the road, ordering the residents back into their homes at gunpoint. Unsure of whether it could be a terrorist attack or something far worse, Beth takes it upon herself to rescue her estranged daughter on the other side of the street. The residents soon discover that the situation is more monstrous than they could ever imagine, and violence, terror and paranoia threaten to tear their worlds apart...Continue reading review here.

Salvage trailer