Salvage (2009)

June 21, 2009 (GB) • Horror • 79m

Overview

When a container washes ashore the residents of a sleepy cul-de-sac are plunged into violence, terror and paranoia. Ring fenced by the military a single mother must overcome all the odds to save her daughter.

Director

Lawrence Gough

Writers

Lawrence Gough, Colin O'Donnell, Alan Pattison, Colin O'Donnell

Top Billed

Neve McIntosh

Keywords

parent child relationship paranoia mutant witness elimination

Where to watch

Free / Included

Chilling

Top Billed Cast

Neve McIntosh

Beth

Shaun Dooley

Kieran

Dean Andrews

Clive

Linzey Cocker

Jodie

Trevor Hancock

The Savage

Shahid Ahmed

Mr Sharma

Kevin Harvey

Akede

Paul Opacic

. Corporal Simms

Ray Nicholas

Sergeant Major

Sufian Ashraf

Mrs. Sharma

Ben Batt

Trooper Jones

Paul Howell

Soldier B

Jake Norton

Newsreader

Alan Pattison

Peter Davis

Martin Pemberton

Soldier A

Debbie Rush

Pam

Kyle Ward

Paperboy

Crew

Julie Lau

Producer

Stephen Hilton

Original Music Composer

Christopher Moll

Executive Producer

Alan Pattison

Executive Producer

Lisa Marie Russo

Executive Producer

Lawrence Gough

Story

Lawrence Gough

Director

Colin O'Donnell

Screenplay

Alan Pattison

Story

Simon Tindall

Director of Photography

Anthony Hamilton

Editor

David Shaw

Casting

Nicky Barron

Costume Design

Dave Powell

Art Direction

Colin O'Donnell

Story

Mally Smith

Production Design

Sarada McDermott

Production Manager

Stuart Hurley

Electrician

Simon Noone

First Assistant Director

Nick Wall

Still Photographer

Pauline Christopher

Script Supervisor

Olivia Rotheram-Jones

Makeup Artist

Gary Desmond

Sound Recordist

Neil Parker

Digital Intermediate

Ali Awad

Assistant Editor

Ray Nicholas

Stunt Coordinator

Dave Fowler

Gaffer

Mark Briscoe

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Emma Cowen

Makeup Designer

Paul Horsfall

Dialogue Editor

Tim Cockerill

Sound Effects Editor

Colin Taylor

Production Design

David Jones

Prosthetic Designer

Scott Mann

Second Unit Director

Scott Mann

Second Assistant Director

Reviews

John Chard

⭐ 7/10

November 4, 2013

The Salvage Savage.

Salvage is directed by Lawrence Gough and written by Colin O’Donnell and Alan Patterson. It stars Neve McIntosh, Shaun Dooley and Linzey Cocker.

It’s Christmas Eve, The Wirral, Merseyside, and 14 year old Jodie is reluctantly spending Christmas with her estranged mother, Beth. But family strife is to be the last of their worries, for soon this small cul-de-sac in the North West of England will become a battle for survival as something is loose and on the kill, and the army has got itchy trigger fingers…

It’s perfectly understandable that some horror lovers come out of watching Salvage immensely disappointed at getting yet another spin on the “creature/infected human/zombie on the loose” formula. There’s nothing exactly fresh here in terms of plotting, but considering the minimalist budget and sparsity of production aids, first time director Lawrence Gough has done a bang up job with this picture. The suspense factor is high, where McIntosh’s (excellent) frantic mother tries to stay alive long enough to rescue her daughter from a house just across the road. Something which sounds simple in premise, but as the film unfolds, this proves to be a tense, fraught and nail biting mission. While the fact that the two main characters have been humanised, deep flaws and all, puts added spice to the survivalist horror.

As Mcintosh and Dooley (very good), the latter a one night stand liaison forced into the battle for survival along with some self examination, prowl around with fear and stoic bravado, themes of paranoia, prejudice and military over-kill slide easily alongside the jolts and blood. Nothing is crowbarred in here, the gore is kept in check and the politico rumblings remain just that, rumblings and not vociferous lectures over the loud speakers. The mystery element remains strong as well, where it’s so nice to see a fledgling director not playing the hand too early. Once the “reveal” comes we are in frantic territory as we literally hurtle through stalk the prey land and finish with a finale that is bleak and deserves credit for having the audacity.

It’s badly under valued on the big internet movie sites, which is a crying shame, because it is damned by familiarity of other genre pieces, where the low budget skill in the film making process doesn’t appear to be taken into consideration. No this is not a terrifying and breakneck paced picture, but it has its moments without doubt and certainly deserves better appraisal notices than those afforded the likes of Creep and the recently awful Storage 24. 7/10

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Salvage (2009)

Lawrence Gough, Colin O'Donnell, Alan Pattison, Colin O'Donnell

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