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Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Vampires have certainly come a long way over the course of cinematic history, indeed textual history as a whole. What started off as a secluded and rich count living in a massive castle in Eastern Europe has gradually become less and less as the years have worn on. Eventually, vampires would be of Hispanic decent as seen in From Dusk Till Dawn and of African American decent as seen in the Blade films, but there are probably earlier still examples of these two types. In The Forsaken, the vampires are of the teenage variety – a far cry to what vampires as a whole began as which makes the idea of these different, post-modern 'types' of vampires look a little silly and like a gimmick. There cannot be much surprise then, when The Forsaken comes across as something equally so.But there has to be some honesty about this comment and that is that I was enjoying The Forsaken up until a certain point. In the long run, the film is nothing special and when essence of familiarity and formula begin to creep into a film that few will even have heard of, let alone seen; you know it's struggling. Although the film falls into that genre of horror, you feel it does less so for the fact that it is genuinely creepy and more so for the fact that mere vampires play an important role in its plot line. The narrative drive for the film sees one of very few vampire leaders left amongst them hiding out in dustbowl America – it is this lead vampire, who has a pretty nasty back-story from over in Europe, that Nick (Fehr) is charged with hunting down and killing for sake of all mankind. Innocent bystander Sean (Smith), who is on his way to his sister's wedding, gets caught up in this extremely small scale war and will suffer as a consequence.I know the cliché is that you shouldn't pick up hitchhikers and films like The Forsaken really hammer home that idea. Yes, you don't know if they're crazy but it could be worse, they could be the harbinger of a story revolving around the apocalypse. If Wolf Creek told us not to hitchhike because you never know who's picking you up and The Hitcher told us not to pick them up in the first place, then The Forsaken has an equal message of morality emphasising what not to do if someone wants a ride – notice Sean's weakness was the offering of money by the third party; is this a further hidden message about the sin of greed? But this adventure will not be so easy for vampire hunter Nick, who reveals himself at a nicely timed point in the film amongst some nasty scenes involving a girl that is 'turning'. Nick may be way too young for my liking to be such the veteran vampire hunter he says he is we'll all have to go along with it. It turns out these nasty caricatures of teenagers who have been going around teasing Sean and Nick over uncharged car batteries and causing carnage at stoner beer picnics are indeed all part of a gang that fronts this lead vampire that needs to be gotten rid of.But while this idea for a story feels old and outdated, it is remarkable how ordinary the execution for it here actually feels. The idea of a post-apocalyptic world is a scary one and the scenes in which mere mortals are on screen are sparse and over quickly, one or two of which meet their grizzly demise in double quick fashion – the best being the state trooper, a figure of authority and power dispatched relatively easily by the antagonistic vampires. This helps build whatever atmosphere the film needs to make us mere mortals look smaller and less powerful; a race that would not win the war if that's what it came to. But The Forsaken is a film whose best scares are incidences like a particularly large spider creeping towards a young and defenceless girl in a compromising situation as well as the lead villain using a snake to bite his arm in order to achieve some sort of 'high'. The film is all very low key and should not be viewed as an exercise in scares.Along with this, the evil-doers in The Forsaken are either established as individuals of a French (European to the wider extent of things) decent or are black females as seen in the case of Cym (Oruche). It's this biting and somewhat childish way of pointing the finger at Europe as the source for the evil-doing and casting a black, British girl for the role of the chief villain's blood hungry, seductive girlfriend. The Forsaken is a film that starts out promising; gradually gets sillier and then ends with an explosion before establishing a disappointing new order in which we discover nothing really has been achieved. But at least the film moves on the character of the vampire as a whole: they can attain a mere rush over a poisonous snake bite to the arm but when it comes to sunlight, they're still screwed. With this in mind, the sequel might as well have vampires whom can withstand a machine gun clip to the torso but have a character throw a piece of garlic at them, and they run scared.

I love the vampire movies, even the fun low-budget ones. Unfortunately this is just trashy and dull, trying to be "cool" and managing sadly well - Forsaken fights with the garbage like From Dusk Till Dawn and John Carpenter's Vampires to be the worst (non-porno)vampire movie ever made. There is a group of sadistic vampires, led by so irritatingly lazy-eyed and slimy rapist that I wanted to pull his nose, gratuitous violence, no style or fun... Admittedly there's no James Woods or Quentin Tarantino making their my-character-is-a-sleazoid-routines, but very pretty Alexis Thorpe is wasted in her blink-and-you-miss-it-role as a female vampire.

Hey although the movie is based on vampires, but in the entire movie not a single monster showed up his fangs. Even in biting scenes no teeth shown,,,, Guess what? Call it vampires or cannibals?But overall, the plot was interesting, with some more effort the movie could have been more enjoyable. I enjoyed John Carpenter's Vampire. Was quite a good plot and awesome acting too. The John Carpenter baddie did outperformed the forsaken baddie. But still, my kinda story and good acting from all star crew. I would like to see more of such great plots coming ahead for all vampire fans.I give it 6 out of 10.

While driving a delivery car across desolate desert badlands backroads self-absorbed twentysomething slacker Sean (amiable Kerr Smith) winds up running into both scruffy vampire hunter Nick (an excellent, charismatically ragtag turn by Brendan Fehr) and a deadly bunch of age-old itinerant bloodsuckers led by the smoothly malevolent Kit (the terrific Jonathan Schaech, who's wonderfully wicked in a juicy full-blown nasty villain part). Opening with the arresting image of beautiful blonde babe Izabella Miko washing blood off her bare breasts in the shower, culminating with an exciting explosive climax, with a handy helping of graphic gore, raucous roaring rock music and rousing vehicular action sandwiched in between, this delightfully down'n'dirty low-budget Grade B exploitation horror flick sizes up as a tasty trashy treat. Writer/director J.S. ("The Slayer," "Shadowzone") Cardone elicits sound performances from the entire cast (veteran late, great character actress Carrie Snodgress in particular contributes a lively last reel cameo as a feisty old battle axe), keeps the unflagging pace fast'n'furious throughout, and, most importantly, delivers the unapologetically lowdown sleazy goods with a winning dearth of pretense and a hugely satisfying surplus of rip-snorting panache. Moreover, there's a marvelously positive and optimistic statement about the redemption of Generation X in this movie: Sean starts out as strictly interested in achieving his own immediate goals in life, but by meeting Nick and joining forces with him to fight the vampires he overcomes his initial selfishness and thus redeems himself in the process. Cardone persuasively makes the point that the allegedly "lost" and hopeless Generation X has a latent capacity to amount to something; all they need is the right stimulus to spark them into action. Since I'm often perceived as a member of this "lost" generation, I found this message to be both very refreshing and extremely heartening. It's nice to know that there are a few filmmakers out there like Mr. Cardone who haven't totally written us off as a lost cause. A splendidly scuzzy and snappy dilly that's one of my favorite fright features of the early 21st century which even comes complete with some pertinent social commentary about modern youth.