'00s Trash?: Salvage (2006)

 At last, the final Film in the Set.  This is Salvage, a 2006 Horror Film/Thriller.  I've never heard of it.  After today, will I think of it again?  We'll see.

The Plot involves a young woman, a strange man and the fact that one keeps killing the other.  Is this a fun Time Loop Horror Film that predates Happy Death Day (the real one and not the knock-off)?

Uh, no.  I'll get into the Plot more when I get to the SPOILERS, but there's a different comparison.
With a Budget that is supposedly under $30,000, should you expect much?  Let's find out...

When you see a name like this in the Credits, you immediately get suspicious, no?

A young woman works at Don't Use Our Full Name Express and gets picked up by a stranger.

Said stranger eventually kills her in her own House.  Ouch.

She then wakes up, back at the Store being greeted by her Boss.

She tries to forget her strange dream and engage in some filler, but keeps having visions of a guy running in the Woods.

Or are we- the Audience- the only one seeing this?  Dunno.

She has another event happen at the Store, being attacked by the man there at night.  She fights him off...but then the Cops show her a video of nobody being there.

Bear things like this in mind for later.

She gets more weirded out by things and tries to look into the killer that she keeps seeing.

He eventually gets more proactive again and grabs her while she's looking into things.

He tells her some cryptic statements that are supposed to make you go 'Oh, that's what this means' later.

After another 'death,' she gets more mostly-useless boyfriend to help out.

They get more information about the killer and people continue to talk weirdly to her.

She finally gets to the heart of things after she learns that she is reported dead/missing alongside her boyfriend.

So what is going on?

SPOILERS BELOW...

Back in the Basement, she's grabbed by 'her Mom' who offers her up to the killer.

This is where the Film goes 'Aha- here's what is happening!'

All of this time, she has actually been the killer...but also none of this is real.

Thanks for the shot, Twin Peaks.

She's actually just a manifesting of said killer in Hell, who is being forced to relive his sins (in very overly-complicated fashion).

Was that worth 80 minutes?  The End.

In theory, this could be a good Movie.  It's not just a Budgetary thing either.  They just made a number of choices that really slowed things down, dragged it out and made things less interesting.

If you want to see something like this done right, see the White Bear Episode of Black Mirror.  It also doesn't feature cheap Nu-Metal-sounding Bands to boot.  Points for you, Show.

In defense of the Film, they came in with a pretty fresh idea.  They tried to make something different.  While I don't think that they succeeded, they did fail while trying to mix things up.  It's better than another generic Zombie Film or uninspired Slasher Film (see my last Review).

It's just a shame to see them fail like this and have to do stuff like literally stretch out to make the Film reach feature length.

Next up, I look back at a somewhat-forgotten '90s Films for new reasons.  Is this really a forgotten gem?  Stay tuned...