Forget Me Not
Forget Me Not
R | 22 October 2009 (USA)
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It's graduation weekend, and Sandy Channing, the popular class president of her small-town high school, should be enjoying the time of her life. But when her friends start disappearing, Sandy discovers they have unwittingly awakened the vengeful spirit of a girl they wronged long ago. Fighting for her sanity, Sandy must unlock a dark secret from her own past before it's too late.

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Leofwine_draca

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.

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Coventry

When I installed myself in front of the TV to watch "Forget Me Not", I was simply expecting a brainless teen-slasher with hot gals parading around in too tight tops and hopefully a little bit of gory massacres too boot; no more, no less. That's also exactly what I received, but – surprisingly enough – the film also had a few neat ideas and twists in store. Like about half of all the horror movies ever made, "Forget Me Not" initially seems to revolve about a group of friends that pulled a prank on someone, but their plan somehow backfired and had irreversible consequences. Now, several years later, they're getting killed one by one. Formulaic stuff, of course, but there are two plot aspects that distinguish from the vast majority of slashers. Number one, the murders aren't committed by a ridiculously masked lunatic, but by eerie ghostly creatures that strangely resemble their already departed buddies. Secondly, and this I personally found quite inventive, once one of the group members is slaughtered, his or her entire existence appears to be erased and the remaining survivors (except for the lead girl Sandy) don't remember anything about them. This ingenious little gimmick leads to a handful of tense and compelling sequences, like when Sandy hysterically attempts to remind the others about their friends, but they just get the impression she's going mad. The "prank" sub plot is also fairly atmospheric and nicely built up, but lacks a proper explanation and logic, for example how did the orphan girl obtain these mysterious powers? With a reasonably ambitious screenplay like this, it's somewhat of a shame that writer/director Tyler Oliver nevertheless only put annoying stereotypes in it, like the slutty girls and muscled jocks. Kudos on the casting of the actresses, as they are all extremely sexy, but a little nudity would have been welcome. Worth a viewing.

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GL84

When a group of friends find themselves the target of a mysterious series of ghostly accidents, they find that a coma-patient is instructing a ghostly demon to kill them off one-by-one and must find the cause of the anger before they're all killed off.This was actually a rather impressive effort here, as this one manages to pull off a rather nasty twist (rather than just being killed, the deceased are erased from the survivor's memory except for the main heroine, which is never explained why and becomes a point of contention within) yet this is handled nicely and never really develops into a point of logic inconsistency within the film, altering events and the outcome of the film rather than the usual complete befuddlement when they're mentioned with no recollections of them. With some rather nice stalking scenes, a couple of decent hauntings and some atmospheric situations, this one really manages to overcome the aforementioned-problem and the lack of gore.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence and Brief Nudity.

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Joe Miller

I decided to finally watch Forget Me Not today and I must say it was better than I expected.I enjoy all types of horror movies and I have seen quite a bit in my life and this is something new to me.I haven't seen this type of story used in any horror movies I have seen yet and I did enjoy the plot and the characters were played nicely.I gave this a 6 because some of it was predictable as most horror movies are but all in all I liked this.Not sure if purchase worthy but for sure a rent.~Joe

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