Truly Dreadful Film

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

FORGET ME NOT is yet another American version of the Japanese ghost horror sub-genre, particularly keen on ripping off the jerky movements of the spirits in THE GRUDGE and RING. Unfortunately it turns out to be the usual badly written nonsense featuring unlikeable teen high school characters and lots of padded out sexual situations to bore the viewer.The storyline is a familiar one in which a girl dies during a prank gone wrong. She's brought back to life during a séance, only to bump off her friends one by one. It's the usual vengeful ghost stuff, enlivened only slightly by some gruesome deaths, like when a guy has his arm and face forced into the workings of a machine. Unsurprisingly there's some bad CGI used to animate the ghosts and the whole thing seems overlong and tiresome.There are some good ideas here, such as a sub-plot which sees the victims of the ghost literally erased from history once they die, but they're mishandled and feel lost amid the usual ghost clichés. FORGET ME NOT? Completely forgettable I'm afraid.

I was expecting a cheap and tacky straight-to-DVD horror film. It certainly followed some of the usual plot lines about familiar characters, but there was plenty to enjoy. The nice twist of the film has all the victims being instantly forgotten, apart from the protagonist, she remembers everyone. This leads to changes in time and everybody thinking Schroeder is nuts. The most impressive thing was the design of the dead, not quite zombies, ghosts or demons, these creepy, shaky, unsettling creatures scared the fudge out of me. The faces were wonderfully designed and their movements were almost nauseating. The actors performed their roles well and I will certainly be watching this again.

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.

I don't get films like this. They had the scare factor because when the people who die come back as demons, they are really creepy looking. Then they had an amazing story. It just fit together from the start to the end. But here is the problem. They add bimbo actors and actresses. People who just cannot act. I understand some of the girls are in there to just be eye candy. Jillian Murray is a good example since she basically plays a slut. But you would think that some of the more main characters would know how to act. This movie was basically about getting laid and oh yeah; demons. It was like you combined a really bad teen movie and an excellent horror film. I really hated the acting, but I couldn't turn off the film for the fact that the story was too good and I wanted to see the ending. So great special effects with a nice scare factor, great story, very bad acting.