Director and writer Jorg Ihle has brought all the elements of an exceptional horror film together and fashioned something fresh and unique in cinema. A truly frightening motion picture experience, with an overwhelming atmosphere of unholy dread and tension of an intensity seldom captured on film. Jewel Staite gives an Oscar worthy performance in the role of a young woman who finds herself fighting for her own survival, her lover's, and their companions on a island of pure evil. Creatures pursue them in scenes of relentless horror and she must summon the courage to meet the challenge of unimaginable terribleness. The characterizations are finely developed and as the story progresses, we find ourselves caring deeply for these very richly drawn individuals. No audience member could possibly ignore the plaintive cries of Jewel Staite. They are bone chillingly real, as is the horror under the superb director Jorge Ihle.

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.

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")

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.