The Forgotten Ones (2008)

People are voting emotionally.

Admirable film.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Director Jorg Ihle works from his own imaginative script and brings this exciting film to the screen with style and creativity. Lovely and gifted actress Jewel Staite gives a superb performance and effectively steals this movie from the rest of the cast without too much trouble. Staite lights up the screen each time she appears and when she isn't in a scene, the film suffers for it. The thrills come fast and furiously and a group of people on an island fight for their very lives against indescribable creatures of horror. While there is indeed blood shed in this motion picture, it is within reason and not excessive when it features such intense depictions of beasts devouring humans. Truly terrifying at times and as genre cinema, actually very, very satisfying.

I picked this up in the bargain section of my local supermarket.The first few scenes, set in 1922, set up a nice teaser for the remainder of the main feature.That is where it lost any sense of suspense.The dialogue was corny. The characters were too flat.I must admit, the only reason I decided to buy it was for Jewel Staite - she was the only name I recognised - She was great as Kaylee in Firefly and as Jennifer Keller in Stargate Atlantis.Apparently someone called 'Kellan Lutz' is well known so this may well appeal to his fan-base.The monsters were never fully explored or developed. I guess that maybe some of the screenplay ending up on the cutting room floor.The cinematography was fair to middling but the dark scenes didn't have enough contrast at times.The biggest disappointment for me was the 'crazy credits' at the end where the makers thanked everybody including Mel Gibson, Sly Stallone and then engaged in listing the proponents of the world's major religions, totally unwarranted.I would have given this one star but for the fact that Jewel Staite was in it and managed to be the most believable character of all.It's an hour and 25 minutes I won't get back but maybe this will save you from the same sense of anticlimax.This title was released in the UK as "After Dusk They Come".

The story behind the production of this movie is so complicated that I am not even sure about its title.In Argentina,this movie is called "La Tribu",a straight translation of its supposed title in English,The Tribe.However,the title which appeared on this movie is The Forgotten Ones.Now,the thing starts to get more complicated : there are apparently two versions of this movie,because the producers were so unhappy with the original version (and,according to some gossips,with the main actress) that they decided to film big part of the material again but with a different cast,and that version received the title of The Lost Tribe.So,according to the official website,that new version is the one which was sold to the distribution company Lionsgate as a part of its line After Dark Horrorfest.Unfortunately,all those pathetic gossips from the industry are much more interesting than this horrible movie.Leaving aside all those gossips,The Forgotten Ones (or whatever its title is) is a pathetic "horror" movie.Actress Jewel Staite is more famous for her work on the cult TV series Firefly and Stargate Atlantis and,although she has some charisma,the screenplay is so poor that she does not have much to do with her character.The screenplay from this movie is a big piece of crap : showing a young woman running through the jungle for 90 minutes does not qualify as a story.I suppose that the lenght from this screenplay was of no more than 10 or 12 pages.The Forgotten Ones is a pathetic horror film which truly damages to the reputation of the genre,so do not make the same mistake as me and do not watch it.If you want to see a good "tropical horror" film,I suggest you to see The Ruins or Rogue.

This as the most meaningless, boring, plot less movie I think I have ever watched. When the movie started, the characters made me think it was going to be a worthwhile movie. Once they hit the island, it went straight downhill. We don't really know who or what the creatures are, if they are killing the people just because they happened to be there or if they were food, how they got intelligent enough to learn how to set traps and why, if this island had been explored before, why it wasn't on a map. The dumbest part in the movie is the fact that the only survivor smashes a radio that could lead to her rescue and hits the open seas in a rubber raft with a plastic paddle. The other big question was why they didn't kill her when they initially had her. I thought maybe she was pregnant and they were going to let her live for procreation purposes, but the writers weren't even smart enough to think of that as an option. At the beginning of the movie, we see that there are researchers there. Why did no one ever try to find them? The creatures were laughable, especially the female. Their posturing looked like they were trying to go to the bathroom with no success. This movie is a complete waste of time.