Forget Me Not (V)
| release date | May 3 2011 |
| studio | Phase 4 |
| director | Tyler Oliver |
| writer | Tyler Oliver, Jamieson Stern |
| starring | Carly Schroeder, Cody Linley, Brie Gabrielle, Chloe Bridges, Jillian Murray, Micah Alberti, Brittany Renee Finamore |
| tagline | Love can be fleeting but its a memory lasts a lifetime. |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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Forget me not is a film that I am rating high, but this could also just be a case of low expectations exceeded. Still, what I saw was a solid variation on the theme of a group of teenagers being killed one by one. The hook in this one is that as each kid is killed, everybody forgets that they existed, well everybody, except for our heroine Sandy Channing. She alone retains memory of her friends and it quickly becomes clear that she is somehow at the center of the events that surround her.
While the film is competently cast, but the characters were clearly written upon fairly clichéd archetypes. That being said, even the worst of the kids seems slightly restrained and nobody really comes off as cruel. Still, for a small horror film that acting carried the story along and didn’t make me cringe too often.
The supernatural killers were actually pretty wicked. Employing that creepy J-Horror style of movement and featuring some rather creepy costumes and visual effects all helped to lend a scary atmosphere to the movie. The kills started fairly graphic, but as the movie progressed became more about the stalking and less about the actual violence.
Overall, for a movie that I had heard nothing about, had not seen one trailer or read a single story, I was very entertained for the 140 minute run time. While not entirely original and certainly not reinventing the genre, Forget me not featured a solid twist on a familiar horror type and I was glad to see it.
Yes the movie is heavily cliched and the acting in some areas is more than weak as well as a less than impressive start but I can see an effort to be unique is on display here. The movie starts off like most generic slasher films with a cast of beautiful unknowns who just recently graduated from high school and throws a huge party, get drunk, have sex and after everyone leaves a handful of close friends decides to drive to a cemetary and play a silly game that’s like ghosts in the graveyard. A mysterious girl then appears and wants to play with them and they let her then things turn for the worst. To me from there on the movie gets way better with effective kills with a way more effective dragging a victim to their grave underground than in Drag Me To Hell, terror and suspense also come and maybe a too complicated plot and story for its own good but I give it kudos for trying to be ambitious. The acting too for some reason gets slightly better and far less annoying than it was in the beginning with Carly Schroeder from the indie film Mean Creek stealing the show. The film never gets truely terrifying and the zombie like ghosts though at some points creepy and scary were mostly not effective enough and seems too similar to the killer ghosts in asian ghosts flicks of the past and they could of done better in that department but for a limited budget they weren’t half bad either. The twisted shocker of an ending which they all had it coming was very effective to me and kept me from giving it a lower rating but I just wish it had a better first half and setup like it did in the middle and last half and because of that it was uneven and it also could of gone further with its interesting premise. Overall it’s like Prom Night meets I Know What You Did Last Summer meets Tormented and at that was an entertaining watch if you have nothing better to do or watch. Rent it!
I liked the premise of the movie. It certainly was different. The overall production was pretty good (acting, cinematography, sound) The movie is a tad slow at times, but the “things” as I’ll call them more than make up for the slowness and bring you right back in. Not a must see, but worth if you do.
Boring and Silly. Nothing less, Nothing more.
This movie was decent. It had somewhat bad acting, the story line was a bit confusing, but interesting, and the ghosts creeped me out. I don’t really know what else to say besides that it was decent.
Decent horror movie. The monsters were ok. The plot was intersting but it’s nothing you haven’t seen before.
(Like I said before)
This movie was decent. It had somewhat bad acting, the story line was a bit confusing, but interesting, and the ghosts creeped me out. I don’t really know what else to say besides that it was decent.
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The Ultimate Movie Review! – http://tss5078.blogspot.com – @tss5078 – I had been waiting a really long time to see this movie. It was an indie release that took almost 2 years to come out on DVD, but it finally did and I couldn’t wait to see it. The reason is simple, the amazing young cast. I knew nothing of the writer, director, or story, but I saw that they got every up and coming young star in Hollywood to star in this thing and that alone should have made it a good film. Unfortunately the story is very very simple. It’s not a bad movie per say, but it’s just nothing different from a thousand other films in the genre. The cast was great, but the film was honestly just done. There was no surprises, nothing especially scary or violent, it was just a very simple and familiar film.