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The Forsaken (2001)

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Reviews Counted:53

Fresh:4

Rotten:49

Average Rating:3.3/10

Consensus: It's all been done before, and done better.

Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

US Box Office: $6,258,942

Synopsis: Driving cross-country to deliver a vintage Mercedes, Sean (Kerr Smith) does the one thing he wasn't supposed to do -- pick up a hitchhiker. From that moment on, his road trip is transformed into a... Driving cross-country to deliver a vintage Mercedes, Sean (Kerr Smith) does the one thing he wasn't supposed to do -- pick up a hitchhiker. From that moment on, his road trip is transformed into a surreal and terrifying nightmare. Sean's new companion, Nick (Brendan Fehr), is not the laid back, aimless traveler he seems to be. He is a hunter. And his prey are a roving band of forsaken youths who feed upon hapless victims found in the dead of night—in a word, vampires. When Sean and Nick pick up the dazed and frightened Megan (Izabella Miko), whom the killers had left for dead, she becomes a human lure for the vampires. The stakes are raised when Sean himself is infected. The only cure for them all is to kill the host organism, Kit (Johnathon Schaech), the vicious leader. It's a deadly race against time to escape the fate of their enemies— joining the ranks of the insatiable undead forever. -- © 2001 Screen Gems [More]

Starring: Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, Johnathon Schaech, Izabella Miko

Starring: Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, Johnathon Schaech, Izabella Miko, Simon Rex, Alexis Thorpe, Phina Oruche

Director: J.S. Cardone

Director: J.S. Cardone
Studio: Screen Gems

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Reeks like the day old apple you left lying in you back seat after a long hot miserable driving day.

Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
04/18/01
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
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Get out the garlic and the crosses and send this unholy film back to hell.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
12/02/01
Urban Cinefile Critics
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Urban Cinefile
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The flick's ultrahip style is forced, always in your face and results in more posturing than plot.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
04/30/01
E! Online
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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
03/24/02
Boston Phoenix
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Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
06/19/02
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The writer/director then squanders his wayward energies on repetitive, ham-fisted action and boring violence.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/26/06
Time Out

The Forsaken tries too hard to be the sexiest new entrant in the vampire movie genre. And it fails.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
05/07/01
America Billy
America Billy
PopMatters

Stripped to its essentials, this could have been an intriguing vampire movie.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
09/17/01
Andrew Pulver
Andrew Pulver
Guardian [UK]
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Too familiar, too derivative and too inferior to its predecessors to have any reason to exist.

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04/26/01
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
New Times

Even if you're nostalgic for, say, Galaxy of Terror or Death Race 2000, you're better off waiting for this one on video.

Full Review Source: Citysearch | comment Comment
04/27/01
Bill Pearis
Bill Pearis
Citysearch

There are serious amounts of vampire letting, and some unintentional chuckles.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
04/30/01
Bob Thompson
Bob Thompson
Jam! Movies

Doesn’t infuse the vampire genre with new life, instead leaving it as listless as a dot-com stock.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
04/27/01
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

Startlingly amateurish.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
05/02/01
Bruce Fretts
Bruce Fretts
Entertainment Weekly

As hard as it tries, this film is no Near Dark -- not nearly.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
04/30/01
Bruce Westbrook
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle

It's not a scary movie, it's a vampire movie. And in reality, it's kind of a bad vampire movie.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
07/01/06
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

Has no style, humor or scary parts.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
04/27/01
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

The vampires are ignoble and exist beyond the constraints of physics, the guns are large.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
05/08/01
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

This stupid movie is Grade-A suckiness!

Full Review Source: IFilm | comment Comment
05/02/01
Dave White
Dave White
IFilm

The only true forsaken are the disillusioned patrons seeking a good vampire movie.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
06/05/02
Dwayne E. Leslie
Dwayne E. Leslie
Boxoffice Magazine

Strangely unenergetic.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
04/30/01
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
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