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.
The Forsaken (2001)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:1
Rotten:5
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: It's all been done before, and done better.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
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
The writer/director then squanders his wayward energies on repetitive, ham-fisted action and boring violence.
Stripped to its essentials, this could have been an intriguing vampire movie.
This slight but not altogether uninteresting monster opera can be a hoot.
It trots out its full arsenal of shock tactics far too early in the game and squanders the suspense it has accumulated.
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