THE FORSAKEN

Sean, a young man who makes a living as a trailer editor for a production company specializing in horror films, decides to visit his sister who is about to get married. During the journey, he picks up two hitchhikers in his car: first Nick, a strange and solitary boy, and then Megan, a young vagrant in apparent state of shock. Nick confesses to Sean that the area is infested with vampires and that Megan is one of their victims. The two young people will have to face the creatures of the night... It can be safely stated that this "Desert Vampires" is undoubtedly one of the worst vampire films of recent years. Trying to draw inspiration from two cult films of the genre like "Vampires" and "Near Dark", from which it steals ideas, setting (especially from Bigelow's film), and even characters - the girl bitten by the head vampire who remains in telepathic contact with him is practically the same character as Sheryl Lee in Carpenter's "Vampires" - the unaware director of this "The Forsaken" directs a predictable and incredibly boring horror, filled with cloying jokes and borderline indecent dialogues. Even those who should be the protagonists of the film, namely the vampires (or as they are called here the "Exiled"), lose all their charm as creatures of the night, reduced to a sparse group of vagabonds, led by the usual darkly handsome man, who rely on guns and pistols rather than their infernal powers to kill. The cast is as usual made up of very young actors, famous only among American teenagers, with the possible exception of the protagonist Kerr Smith, whom we have seen in Italy in the TV series "Dawson's Creek" and in the excellent "Final Destination". In short, really a film to be completely rejected, which we strongly advise you to avoid.