Lionsgate takes a dump on another film?

That seems to be the case as the newest film from Joel (The Lost Boys, Flatliners) Schumacher was given the Midnight Meat Train treatment and dumped into a few second run theaters across the nation. The reviews on the net have been positive, and there have even been comparisons to Lucio Fulci’s The House by the Cemetery. Sad really, Lionsgate could have ridden the coattails of Inglourious Basterds and made some decent dinero on it.

Synopsis: In 1936, the Wollners – a German family living in rural Town Creek, Maryland – are contacted by the Third Reich to host a visiting scholar, Professor Ricard Wirth. In need of money, they accept Wirth into their home. Wirth’s grand occult project seals the Wollners off from the rest of the world and makes them players in a horrifying game of survival.

Now, in 2007, Evan Marshall’s life has stalled at twenty-five years old. Left without answers after his older brother Victor’s disappearance from a camping trip near Town Creek, he has tried to move on. But when Victor returns one night, very much alive and having escaped his captors, Evan asks no questions – at his brother’s request, he loads their rifles, packs up their boat and follows him back to Town Creek on a mission of revenge that will test them in every possible way.

Source: The Bloodshot Eye