The Forgotten Ones (2009 Video) User Reviews

Dumb film. A machete left behind by one of the victims from a previous generation stays intact, stays sharp n not a sign of rust inspite of humidity n rain.

[Fella_shibby · 3/10 · 5 November 2020]

I first saw this more than a decade back on a dvd which I own. Got enticed into buyin the dvd cos of the trailer n the concept of creatures on an uninhabited island. Revisited it recently but fast forwarded most boring scenes. The creatures are not scary, the killings are offscreen n the most dumbest thing is the ending.

Five pals are marooned on a secluded n uninhabited island after their boat crashes. They are hunted n killed off by creatures which do not just kill for territorial issues but rather for their savage nature. One of the pal is able to find out the weakness about the creatures n uses it to her advantage.

Basically a poor n cheap version of Descent, Predator, Wolfman, etc. The faces of the creatures n their bodies r ripped off from Ford Coppola's Dracula (the beast in the garden). The lead babe resembles a slimmer version of Rosamund Pike.

The film has three different titles, so be careful n try avoiding this film to save ur time. The names r, After Dusk They Come, The Tribe n The Forgotten Ones.

I have the dvd of its remake too. Surprisingly, the producers remade it in just one year with a new director, script, and cast, under the title The Lost Tribe. Will revisit the movie n post a review.

Better off forgotten

[matches81 · 4/10 · 25 March 2009]

The plot summary on the back sounded somewhat interesting, so I rented this one tonight. I just finished watching it.

Overall, there's just not much to say about it. Everything is slightly worse than mediocre. The movie falls into that ugly gap between being so bad it's entertaining and being an honestly good movie. The four "characters" are basically non-existent and there's close to no background about the "monsters". Speaking of those, they aren't even especially gruesome in any way, neither regarding their looks nor their practices. The film tries to get some tension going, but it just didn't work for me at all. The plot is as foreseeable as it could be right from the start, not a single surprise to be found and the ending is very, very... unsatisfying.

Well, monsters are monstrous

[boccaccio6 · 5/10 · 23 March 2009]

It is hard to fill ten lines of comment for this movie. What has to be said? Well, the monsters are monstrous, the girl pretty (in some common way), the island mysterious. All of them do their job. Cinematography is not that bad, you just get the sense of people lost in a wild forest. Of course the writer had to fill some space with irrelevant anthropology about characters that are not even mean enough to deserve such misfortune or so nice to make you cry. As a matter of facts monsters look more interesting and complex. I would have liked that some destiny, or original sin had pushed the humans to that place. It would have meant some stars more.

The Others

[claudio_carvalho · 5/10 · 30 April 2009]

While navigating to a birthday party of their friend Mo, the motor pleasure yacht of Peter (Justin Baldoni), his girlfriend Liz (Jewel Staite), Ira (Marc Bacher), Lauren (Nikki Griffin) and Jake (Kellan Lutz) wrecks on a rock and the vessel sinks. The castaways reach a beach in the Antilles Islands, and release a distress call to the owner of the yacht through the radio. However, during the night, Peter vanishes leaving a track of blood; Jake threatens Ira and Lauren with a pistol and forces the couple to join Liz to seek out Peter in the woods. Sooner they find that the wild jungle has hostile inhabitants that hunt in pack and the survivors are the prey.

I saw the trailer of "The Forgotten Ones" a couple of days ago and I expected to see a good movie; unfortunately there are many flaws in the plot and I was disappointed. For example, there is no development of the five lead characters and it is impossible to feel any empathy for any of them: Peter is an arrogant wolf that cheats Elizabeth, who is a hysterical and impulsive blonde that does not think; Jake is an envious guy that does not respect his friend Ira, pointing a gun to him; Ira is a silly man and Lauren is a slut. There are stupid attitudes along the story and Liz is the winner: Liz crashes the radio that might help to rescue her; she decides to go into the woods despite Ira's advice to use the raft to seek help; later she goes to the nest of the creatures to get the raft back and row with a plastic paddle to the open sea. Peter has a wounded leg, but runs like a hell when the creature chases him. Jake falls from the top of a tree and has no injuries. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "A Tribo" ("The Tribe")

Redundant

[Tim851 · 3/10 · 2 June 2009]

The best way to describe the movie is: redundant. Not a single frame of it is original. Everything has been done before and better. The group of victims, their dynamic, the setting, the monsters, the killings. Everything is just a rehash of a cliché of a stereotype.

As far as horror films go, this is one of the lamest. The group of people is amongst the dullest, least developed bunch of morons without chemistry ever. The plot is something you and your friends come up with in 5 alcohol infested minutes when joking about bad horror plots. The setting is more like "Let's get paid to go to a Paradise Island!" The killings all follow the horror formula and are less gory than I've come to expect.

All in all, this was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It wasn't as bad as classic early Boll, but that just made it worse. "The Tribe" is bad in a totally unfunny and unentertaining way, it's just plain and simple a waste of lifetime.

After Dusk They're Dumb

[knightox · 3/10 · 6 July 2019]

This is a film for the brain dead. If you're not already brain damaged you will be after watching this one. It's pure, utter garbage that will instantly rot your mind. First off there's little, to no character development. And speaking of the characters, all of them get slaughtered so quickly (expect for one) you barely get to know them. Not that it mattered because it seemed like they couldn't act anyway. The steak and ketchup scene proved that. Finally the "monsters" themselves were a joke! The orcs from LOTR were more frightening. These things were just some guys in dark makeup and some fur, going around screaming like chimps. I'm not sure any CGI was used at all. They probably couldn't afford it. The female lead finally leaves the island with a rescue raft. But just before she leaves she is contacted on the radio. However in a stupid act of defiance she doesn't try to respond and smashes the radio. She also doesn't bring any water with her for her long trip at sea. Yeah this one belongs in the trash dumpster.

Pointless. Why Did They Bother?

[tohu · 1/10 · 29 June 2010]

If you read my reviews you'll see that I'm not one for hyperbole. But, all things considered, this really is one of the worst films I have ever seen.

A group of young rich Americans - who have various relationship issues between them - get on a yacht to sail off to a party. The boat sinks and they find themselves stranded on a mysterious island where they must battle to survive against a tribe of murdering sub-humans.

Yes it's all been done before, and there is NOTHING in this film that even attempts originality. But that's not the main problem. I can't tell you how bad it is. The relationships between the characters are poorly developed, the characters themselves are one-dimensional and unsympathetic, the acting is bottom-rate, the plot pointless, the direction annoying.

I usually try not to spoil in my reviews but this film is so bad I don't want you to waste your time seeing it, so I'll give you an example: One character is attacked by the creatures and dragged off into the jungle while he sleeps. He wakes to find his shin-bone broken and sticking out through his skin (he has noticed none of this as he slept). This kind of injury must surely be one of the most painful things possible, yet when he (eventually) notices it he winces as though he has been stung by a bee, then calmly ties the bone with a splint, gets up and starts walking around seemingly un-perturbed. Later we see him running.

Characters are seemingly killed off one by one, only to be seen again later being tortured by the creatures - and then killed anyway. As the plot rambles on, the tribe seems to have some kind of mysterious agenda, and it turns out they are selective in which humans they kill, but by the time we discover this there is only one human character left and she has no-one to talk to, so we don't get to know why.

Sometimes films are so bad they are actually funny, and they develop cult status. That won't happen to this one, because it doesn't even have any heart. Even if you like gore, the killings are not all that bloody so you'll be disappointed on that level too. Overall, by the time the closing credits roll it really is a relief, and you just wonder: why did they bother?

In all my IMDb reviews over the years, I have never given a move a '1' rating before. It seems there's a first time for everything!

Stupid people do stupid things

[jillcan · 4/10 · 8 May 2009]

A bunch of pretty, but stupid, people set sail on a ship. First the main character's stupid boyfriend doesn't pay attention to her when she warns him that the ship is on the wrong course. Then we find out he's cheating on her. Then they crash land on an island in the middle of nowhere. Then he proposes to her. Then she stupidly says yes. Then a bunch of people die. Then she outwits the creatures that killed all her stupid friends but since there's nothing left she decides to inflate the escape raft that survived the shipwreck, not pack any provisions and paddle aimlessly out to sea, probably to die.

I understand why this film was not deemed good enough to see the light of day in the US - there is no real meat to the plot. Except all the pretty, stupid people, who are eaten by "the forgotten ones", whose history is never adequately revealed. And that could have made for an okay exposition, but instead we get a bunch of crude humor, which includes the main character's pants getting ripped off by one of the creatures, leaving her with only bikini bottoms in which to run Baywatch-like across the beach to her ultimate death sentence.

In the right mood you might enjoy this

[dbborroughs · 6/10 · 6 April 2009]

Throw back in its way to the Italian jungle films of the 70's and 80's has a boat getting ship wrecked on a tropical island. All is okay until the castaways realize that there are man-beasts on the island. Of course the natives are hungry and out for blood.

Good but unremarkable horror adventure film set in the jungle. I think the film works because its not your typical natives hunting castaways. In a weird way it reminded me of the Decent set in the jungle. I liked it but I didn't love it. I can recommend it for those looking some jungle monster thrills.

6 out of 10 (a word of warning: its been remade already)

Jewel Staite makes the movie worth seeing!!!!!!!

[xkillyouforadollarx · 4/10 · 19 March 2009]

Let me start off by saying that this movie is in no way a gore filled Slasher movie nor a big budget monster film. What it is however is a very decent low budget thriller. The special effects on the "monsters" (for lack of a better word) and the rest of the film, are above average for movies that don't have a lot of money. The script, though slightly boring and a little on the lame side as far as the characters go, was actually not bad overall. The actors were decent enough although not entirely believable in the situation. However, Jewel Staite definitely stands out as the best and most believable in her role. She is absolutely one of the most beautiful and sexy, underrated actors around. I don't really see why she wasn't recast in the newer version that they are making.

Really enjoyable and entertaining offering

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 9/10 · 22 April 2015]

After being stranded on a strange island, a group of shipwrecked friends finds the area home to a tribe of savage human-like beings and forces them into an extreme mode of survival to get off the island alive.

Overall this one was quite an entertaining effort without too much really wrong here. The biggest plus with this one is the fact that there's a rather engrossing mystery that develops here early on about what exactly's on the island with them and how to defend themselves, which is quite enjoyable for how it goes about this. The concept of being on an uncharted island is good enough to start this off with, but then comes the idea of putting the creatures on there which makes for quite an enjoyable time building up to them by the early ways this goes about it. From the off-screen grunting and growling to the scenes of them stealing their shipwrecked items and stalking them along the way to the first major encounter of them capturing several members of the group in ingenious rope-traps that scores quite well as an action sequence yet never once gives away the creatures and their design which is quite impressive. That's reserved for the first main confrontation in the caves where the remaining members of the expedition are kept to be tortured and killed within the darkened caves which is quite a feat to be done so late in the film but also with the rather chilling sequence it's done with as well making for a great time here as it rolls through the final half with a lot of impressive and enjoyable moments. The battle in the underground tunnels, the chase through the jungle leading to the revelation in the clearing and the final encounter at the enclosed circle of bamboo trees all combine into a great series of scenes that shows off the creatures quite well, gets plenty of action and suspense into this and even throws in some decent amount of gore to really work quite nicely. These do manage to hold off the few small flaws here, namely the fact that the film's not that interesting when focusing on the human cast as they're stories aren't that engaging. The purpose of inviting the ex and her new romantic interest seems only to generate tension within the group as there's little point in inviting them along on a trip like this in the first place, even inviting along the friend who's romantically unattached and going to be around his most recent ex-girlfriend makes his involvement even more questionable, and there's little about their interactions early on that comes off all that enjoyable. The other small flaw is the rather lackadaisical manner this treats the group who are knowingly stuck on the island and rarely react with any sense of urgency or intensity to get off considering the situation present and something obviously there with them. Otherwise, this one was pretty enjoyable.

Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

running running

[gpeltz · 7/10 · 25 June 2015]

The movie is, The Forgotten Ones.(2009) Written and Directed by Jorg Ihle. Spoilers ahead, as I'm going to talk about it, on the positive side; Beautiful Costa Rica location shooting. Also on the positive side, umm, Good technical specs, Good sound, A workable score and acceptable editing. On the downer side, there seemed an earnest attempt to drag romantic issues into a horror show.

The plot? Kids in jeopardy on an uncharted island. Expect the usual as one by one they are picked off, leaving at the end the one who did not think she had it in her to survive, a Ripley inclined heroine triumphs to tell the tale. Stock formula plot, seen before. The threat here are a people the locals call, the forgotten ones. An isolated cannibalistic tribe,

Ah, the drama as Liz played by Jewel Staite. Is going for a fun excursion with her love interest Peter played by Justin Baldoni, who brings along his friends, and a couple of girlfriends to round out the victims, I mean cast.There you have the setup. I've seen better shipwrecks, I liked the one in the movie "Triangle " (2009) A large duration of this movie consists of implied menace, without showing the beasties, Standard Horror movie tradition. Much in the same style filming technique as was used in, "Predator" (1987) A rustle in the branches, type buildup.About halfway in the creatures reveal themselves. Along the line the list of victims grows. Eventually the plot reaches the lone survivor conclusion.

The critters were not too bad in execution, quasi ape with a mean set of choppers and lots of hair.Acceptable level of credibility in the closeups. workable prosthetic's. . You will notice a goodly amount of fast editing in the chase scenes, the running was more implied by jump cuts than shown, very few shots of the actors playing the manamals actually running. For all that, the movie eventually runs out of clichés and arrives at a remorseful conclusion. Seven, "See the nice beach" Stars out of Ten

Can I Forget This Film?

[Carrigon · 3/10 · 31 March 2009]

What a waste of time. The opening sequence takes place in the past and looks promising. But then...we get to the present. And it all goes downhill from there.

The movie apes a lot of Predator sequences. But it's all a waste because the characters are really being chased by some kind of weird mutated bigfoot ape things.

Everyone dies pretty fast, so that too, was a waste.

Jewel's character is the only one left standing. And she ridiculously goes into Predator fightin mode. I'd say it jumps the shark right there.

The ending is anticlimactic. And you just kind of sit there like, that's it??? Total waste of time. Jewel did give it her all, though. But sometimes even good acting cannot save a really bad movie.

Have some steak with your sauce....l

[FlashCallahan · 3/10 · 17 November 2012]

Soothe film consists of our quite attractive people and one fat man, who get on a boat for a trip, and crash on a desert island.

But things go from bad to worse. We have a proposal, and the the island is infested with Bob Marley wannabes who have fun in trees, and have a taste for human flesh.

The film starts with a pointless flashback featuring a girl wearing too much make up that hadn't been invented yet, who gets gobbled up, but leaves a machete in an appropriate place for later.

Then we are treated to a group of annoying people who you just know are going to end up as chowder later on. I couldn't care less for these people, they spent the majority of the film, hating each other, or distrusting each other, so it was good when they started getting picked off.

There's no real surprises, the first girl we meet ends up living, and they picked off in order of annoyance. The machete is found at the end and the lead girl, chops off the head of the alpha male.

What happens next is bizarre, the rest of the Marley crew, walk forward, know their master is dead and back off.

The ending is surprising, because I was expecting some cheap jump scare at the end, but no, she sits there in a mood for a while and rows off on a raft.

It's a bad movie, with an okay looking monster.

Really not worth watching.

so-so

[krotkruton · 4/10 · 10 May 2009]

Recipe for this movie: Start off with "The Descent" Replace cast of girls with one likable actress and others no one will care about Change setting to jungle Make the bat-like creatures into monkey-like creatures, but keep the blindness and echo-location because, you know, monkeys are like that too. End on a Hollywood happy note

If it wasn't so similar to "The Descent" or had come out first, I probably would have like it more. It didn't have the grittiness, the terror, the bad ass lead character. On top of that, the plot is pretty obvious and your typical Hollywood formula. It just doesn't measure up. It's not a bad movie, it just doesn't have any of the qualities that made "The Descent" so great.

Did'nt Think Much Of This

[marcusdavis40 · 4/10 · 27 September 2020]

After watching this my conclusion is that this movie is almost a rip off of the first Predator movie .The monsters for instance bare a certain resemblance to the original Predator .They're all tall and they're blind .In the original Predator the alien had Infa Red vision .I did'nt care much for the characters either they were all pretty much disgustingly spoiled obnoxious individuals.Even more unbelievable that all the burly male characters were all dispatched of pretty easily and the only remaining character is the skinny woman who manages to outsmart this tribe of monsters and after being flung around by the alfa male of the tribe manages to decapitate him making her the new leader of the tribe.Total nonsense.

Sucks

[yuye-92532 · 1/10 · 24 February 2020]

I only created an account here in Imdb just to say this...

This movie is awful, literally the worst movie i ever seen ( and i seen a lot), the movie doesn't have any sense, doesn't explain anything and all the deaths of the Characthers are off-screen

Im kinda depressed now, because i lost 90 minutes of my life i never get back

I apologize for my english, im not a native speaker.

Don't bother with this one

[aqos-1 · 2/10 · 28 March 2009]

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.

How can this have 4.5 stars? It should be 2

[danieljknight · 2/10 · 10 April 2009]

This movie was awful. The intro was cool, beginning was standard with a lame twist, and then it was just boring from then on. The monsters seemed cool at first but the way they acted was too human, but obviously that was the point because they are called a tribe or spoken of as humans. It was just so silly how one acted towards the end, it was like animals with a code of chivalry, so lame. It's like the director didn't know what direction to take these "people" in. The ending was utterly stupid, there is one lone survivor, and she just sits at the end of the beach, and minutes are wasted watching her sit there, seemed like minutes. At one point during the movie there was what appeared to be her dead bf, but it wasn't, BUT THEN WHERED THAT FRESH BODY COME FROM? And this many decades old tent was unbelievably still in tact, give me a break. There was just so many stupid things about this movie, it's not worth watching. And no, there were no hot girls, not to me.

Superb Staite Performance in Thrilling Horror Film

[jlthornb51 · 10/10 · 17 June 2015]

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.

Dull

[grantss · 2/10 · 13 July 2022]

Dull, and surprisingly so for a cannibal-horror film. At least the average B-grade cannibal-horror has some degree of intrigue and entertainment. This is lifeless and quite sanitised for a horror, as if Disney has attempted to make a horror film.

Avoid.

This film is best forgotten

[fluffchop · 1/10 · 26 April 2021]

Unlikable characters are on an island being eaten. The monsters are a filthy unwashed mess. Such a bad movie. There's nothing to like about it.

Best Forgotten...

[Rob_P · 2/10 · 2 July 2010]

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".

Very forgettable

[okpilak · 4/10 · 5 September 2023]

For those who rated it ten, I will have what they are having. For those who rated it a 1, that is a bit harsh. From Filmrise, I didn't have many expectations. Liz and Peter have a strained relationship, but they take out rich tourists on the boat. The GPS keeps malfunctioning, but it appears from the port they left is in California, but they wind up in the Caribbean. They hit a reef (worst special effects ever) and are stranded on this jungle island. At least the scenery is very interesting. But the creatures come out during the day, so the movie is misnamed. The creatures are not very nice. Liz (Jewel Staite) is clearly the best actor of the group and Peter finally asks her to marry him. But they have to deal with the creatures, so how will that work out for them? The creatures are done decently. But the movie has so many obvious flaws, it really is not a very good movie.

The movie happens offscreen and what happens onscreen make no sense...

[obheron · 1/10 · 28 February 2022]

I took movie analysis classes in college and I remember they tought us the notion of offscreen to convey certain emotion, atmosphere, mood, or to advance the plot, etc.

But this movie takes this way to the next level.

There is a storm at the begining; it sort of happen, well, you guessed it, offscreen. The boat is shipwrech offscreen. They arrive at the deserted unmapped island... offscreen.

The guy who is suppose to rescue them... offscreen.

The characters fight for their lives offscreen, they get out of our field of view and die offscreens. The gore happens offscreen and they just shows the creatures hands bloodied afterwards.

The main fight at the end happens ONSCREEN !! But it's dark and you won't see much...

Plus things don't make much sense. Why would the creature get Peter (Justin Baldoni) only to let him go while he is unconscious ?? Why would Liz (Jewel Staite) return to the dens of the creature in a cave, during the night as she does not even have a weapon. I know it's cliched, but if they had added a scene where she tries to gather her ideas to formulate a plan verbally and out-loud, at least we could have had a reason.

Plus the creatures don't make much senses as well. They already killed enough people to get by a few days. Why kill the prisoners ? They also clearly have a society with arts, and they are intelligent enough to make knots and they use other tools, so they should understand rots I believe.

Also, the cratures look like Uruk'Hai and the creatures from the Descent had an illegitimate hairy child... It does not fit their own in-movie genesis that this is an offshoot of humanity.

They also talked about cannibalisms, but you don't see this. They are another species of great ape, like chimpanzees, but walking on 2 legs and wearing make-up and using weapons, but they have claws, fangs and the stout of a bat, and they are blind like one as well.

They clearly have an highly develop sense of smell but a tiny bit of sap from a tree in one of Liz's hand and they become blind like a covered in mud Arny in Predator. Then, Liz cover herself up in the stuff but they are able to guess approximatly were she is ?? Why ?

In the end, why does she shoot the radio ?? Why didn't they try another frequency to talk to someone ? Why did Liz shoot the radio in the end instead of taking it with her on the raft ? Why did she drop the gun before going on the raft ??

How did Liz lose her pants ? AND WHY DID THE ALPHA CREATURE TRIED TO GET HIS CLAWS DOWN HER PANTIES ????!!!!!

Make no sense at all... Oh, one last thing... The movie came out in 2009... Twilight came out in 2008 and New Moon in 2009 as well. That is why Kellan Lutz is on the poster. He just dies halfway, offscreen too...