Reeks like the day old apple you left lying in you back seat after a long hot miserable driving day.
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
Reviews for The Forsaken
Get out the garlic and the crosses and send this unholy film back to hell.
Doesn’t infuse the vampire genre with new life, instead leaving it as listless as a dot-com stock.
The time may finally be ripe to leave the bloodsuckers to their coffins and move on to less familiar terrors.
The only true forsaken are the disillusioned patrons seeking a good vampire movie.
A fitting title, it seems that almost everything in this film is either forsaken or just plain neglected, including plot, characters and logic.
Even if you're nostalgic for, say, Galaxy of Terror or Death Race 2000, you're better off waiting for this one on video.
The flick's ultrahip style is forced, always in your face and results in more posturing than plot.
A rare horror film in which the heroes are better drawn than the monsters, this trips up because Schaech doesn't cut it as a master fiend and the car chases distract from the dread.
Some movies don't need to be analyzed, just watched. This is not one of those movies because it didn't entertain me. It bored me, and when I am bored I get cranky.
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