at the movies

By Catherine Jones on Mar 18, 08 10:00 AM

They're filming on the Brookie set again - but there's no sign of anyone being buried under the patio despite it being a horror flick.
The team behind Salvage, one of three winners of the Digital Departures competition for Capital of Culture year, are currently hard at work turning the Close into a physical and psycholgical battle ground.
I popped down last week to meet two of the main cast members, Neve Campbell and Shaun Dooley.

Neve plays a mum battling to get her estranged daughter to safety after a military siege kicks off to track down an evil renegade, while Shaun is a one-night stand who gets embroiled in events.
The film is an ambitious big-budget popcorn horror flick being made on a micro budget that wouldn't even keep Bruce Willis in washing powder.
Neve has never worked in Liverpool before, but Shaun spent three months here last year making Apparition with Martin Shaw and professes to really like the city.
He even has good things to say about Reds fans, although since his beloved Barnsley has just beaten Liverpool he can be magnanimous.
He told me: "I'm a huge Barnsley fan and after the game I was in a bar in my Barnsley shirt and Liverpool fans were coming up to me and saying 'nice one mate'."
The 33-year-old also revealed it was freezing filming in Brookside Close, but not as cold as when he was on the Shackleton set on an ice flow in Greenland a couple of years ago.
Neve, who has recently finished filming a movie with Joe Fiennes about a Jewish family hiding from the Holocaust, is relishing the action parts of Salvage although she admitted she was black and blue with all the running, jumping and scrambling.
She says she herself isn't really into horror films, but wants to see The Cottage starring a foul-mouthed Jennifer Ellison.
In the meantime there is Liverpool to explore, and a trip being planned up to Crosby beach to see the Gormleys.
Salvage also starrs Dean Andrews - DS Ray Carling from Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. He wasn't on set when I visited unfortunately......maybe he was firing up the Quattro?!!