The Forsaken | | Cast : | Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr | | Director : | J.S. Cardone | | Studio : | Columbia/Tristar Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | April 27, 2001 | | DVD Released Date : | August 31, 2004 | | Language : | French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Korean (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | July 21, 2005 | | Summary | "The Retard or the Poser?" - Vampires in the Desert | Content
 | Be forewarned those who may be driving in the desert at night on some dark, deserted piece of highway. Stop for hitchhikers at your own risk. Also avoid the urge of trying to be too helpful to fellow motorist stranded along the way. Remember things are not always what they appear to be.
This was quite a well-constructed, coherent storyline from beginning to end. You are never left in the dark with this plot. Everything is explained at the appropriate time, the history of this particular vampire sect, how they happened to show up in Midwest America, how the vampire virius works in the body, its telepathic properties and what must be done to cure yourself from the curse of "The Forsaken." All this infomation was nicely worked into the script in such a way as not to bog down the viewer with too much substance, hence detracting from what the average movie fan is looking for, gore and violence.
A brief comment for any young girls who may get struck watching this with a boyfriend. While you may not enjoy the horror elements in the movie you might enjoy the male members of the cast which includes; Brendan Fehr (Roswell), Kerr Smith (Dawson's Creek, Final Destination) and Johnathon Schaech (That Thing You Do) as the head vampire.
Brendan Fehr was terrific as the young, wise beyond his years vampire hunter roaming the highways and byways in search of the vampire that infected him with the virius. My favorite scene in the movie is when Nick (Brendan Fehr) and Sean (Kerr Smith) stop at a roadside diner for a bite to eat. A two-way conversation quickly turns into a monologue when Nick begins to compare the aspirations and hopes of his generation with those of the last. It's not only hilarious, but absolutely true. Without giving away too much of the ending, I'll just say a perfect opening was provided for a sequel. While I'm not generally a fan of sequels, I would've liked to see Brendan Fehr reprise his role of vampire hunter at least one more time.
Simply the most enjoyable vampire film since "The Lost Boys." |
| Rating | | | Date | April 21, 2005 | | Summary | I'm Sorry But This Was Bad! | Content
| I give The Forsaken 2 stars, because of its attempt for trying, and because of it's actors who I thought were well casted for being new people. The plot, the end, and the blood/gore/horror was all just not there for me.
You have a kid, who's driving in his car stopping in this little town. Now driving again picking up a hitchhiker who is a vampire hunter drifter... witnessing what they shouldn't have, getting between vampires and their prey. Now if this movie had some kind of graphics showing a person transform into a bat, or show someone getting ripped to shreds... then I would've rated it higher. Instead they had guns and rode in cars.
I liked Kerr Smith and Brendan Fehr not for their tv shows, but for their characters in the movie Final Destination. I thought Simon Rex known as Pen in the movie, played an excellent vampire slave... who I thought was terrific in the movie, Scary Movie 3. I did think Johnathon Schaech as a head vampire would be great. He has that great bad boy look like he did in other movies such as That Thing You Do! and Caracara... again they just didn't make this movie realistic enough.
Graphics were a low, you see blood but not like you should have. The picture and camera shots are great, but there's nothing that gets you scared at all like real vampire movies should. The actors are what you're really watching, not a story.
Personally, I don't think they have made a great vampire flick at all this decade. Outside of one my favorite vampire movies, which was Blade 2... action packed with blood. Dracula 2000, Queen of the Damned, and even Blade Trinity... were all failed attempts. The Forsaken is another worthy try, but just 2 stars on my scale. It lacked all of my interests really. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 31, 2004 | | Summary | Worth it if.. | Content
| the plot is terrible and most of the scenes are annoyingly bad, but i like this movie simply because Brendan Fehr, Simon Rex, and Kerr Smith are amazingly hott in it! if your a fan of any of those people then it's probly worth the cheap price at wal-mart, i watch it just to look at them. If your looking for an amazing vampire movie then your not going to find it in this and if you dont look Brendan Simon or Kerr then you'll probably hate this movie, if theyd used other people it would suck terribly honesty its a waste of talent..if ur looking for something good dont watch this.. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 23, 2004 | | Summary | Once Again, Blame The French | Content
| In a film starring Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, and a host of other actors and actresses considered eye-candy, you'd think this would be another teen/vampire/T&A rompfest. Well, there are vampires and definitely some T&A, but the "teen" element is nowhere to be found. Instead, you have a decent story about a small band of bloodsuckers headed up by one of the original badboys of immortality who is being hunted by one of his victims.
The victim, played by Brendan Fehr, thinks that the vampire Kit is the source of the virus he acquired through another vampire. According to legend, if you kill the source before you vamp out, you will be cured of what ails you. Kerr Smith plays Sean, a guy who winds up in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is thrust into the hunt when he assists Fehr's character, Nick. They find a young woman(Izabella Miko of "Coyote Ugly") who is a recent victim of Kit, and they use her as a homing beacon to draw Kit to holy ground, which is the only place that he can be killed.
Kit is played with sinister perfection by Johnathan Schaech. Schaech and his little group of vampires, which includes his lover, another female vampire, and a day driver, decide to hunt the hunters and finish them off. What follows is a standard road movie/car chase sequence that is full of explosions, nudity, gore, and a big finale.
Although it doesn't hold up well to many other vampire flicks, "The Forsaken" is worth a watch. There is plenty of T&A, but not so much that you think you're watching some late night fluff on Showtime. The violence is handled pretty good as well, though some may be turned off by the way the vampires feast. They can get pretty violent when they are feeding. If you like your vampires along the line of "Lestat," you probably won't like this movie. If "Blade" is more to your liking, you might enjoy this movie more, although there are no martial arts-induced [...] whippings. As a matter of fact, this movie reminded me a lot of "The Wraith," due to the fact that there are plenty of desert car chases.
Oh, and by the way, the Forsaken is Kit, who just happens to be one of the original eight French vampires that started all of this vampire mess in the first place. Bram Stoker would role over in his grave. |
| Rating | | | Date | October 14, 2004 | | Summary | It could've sucked worse. | Content
| I bought this movie when I was on a serious vampire-story kick, and it got here as that kick was waneing. So I put off watching it, because frankly the cover looks like every other silly sex-kittens-and-bloodsuckers vamp flick out there, just done with today's teenagers instead of last decade's teenagers. I have nothing against s-k-&-b-s films, but I have to be in a specific mood to want to watch them.
Today, I decided to get off my behind (or rather, to sit *on* my behind... ), stop stalling because I was afraid of how bad it might be, and actually watch it. My expectations were very, very low. I was pleasantly surprised.
It's done fairly well - the characters mostly hold together. The bits where they go all "Natural Born Killers" with the filming are as lame as in every other film that's used them, but the rest is decently done and competently acted.
All in all, it's a pretty darn good job. They could have gone and screwed it up but they didn't. And for Hollywood, that's a major achievement.
If I say anything about the plot I might give something away, and that would actually be a shame, because there is a sort of plot and it doesn't go strictly according to the standard script. It sticks close and does involve a bunch of pretty, pimple-free early twenties kiddies wearing as little as possible but still; it manages to have a few shreds of originality. It maintains what integrity it has while conforming to the formula script of pretty kids in a bad situation with vampires. |
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