Undescribable Perfection

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

The only movie I will ever review because I will defend it until I die. You expect this movie to be bad. You expect the horror in the movie to be equally as bad as the cheesy high school story-line. Super shockingly, it's a fun movie to watch. It is surprisingly scary and anyone I show this to is shocked that they actually enjoy watching it. The "cheese" is so bad that it is enjoyable and comical, the horror is actually scary, and the story is interesting. This might be a backhanded compliment, sorry.

Some teens meet grizzly ends, but as per "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (and numerous others), they kind of deserved it really. The twist here is that, once bumped off, you are totally forgotten about. This is both rather convenient as a plotting device and problematic. Would all photos of the deceased vanish? Suppose you had been with the deceased the night before they died, what would you remember of the night? Then again, horror fans don't all seek complete logic in their movies, just some good scares.And there are some effective scares here. The creatures are weird, but certainly unsettling. Deaths are dealt out in varied fashion, and there are some unnerving and jump-inducing scenes. You probably have seen it all before, however.The cast are not complete unknowns. "Hannah Montana" fans will recall Cody Linley as Hannah's boyfriend Jake in the series, and older sci-fi buffs may recall Barbara Bain from her "Space 1999" days. Mostly the acting is acceptable, although some characters' reactions to seeing the creatures are not what one would expect. For instance, near the end a character looks simply bemused when confronted with a posse of the things, but is oddly terrified at the prospect of one breaking through glass to get him.Never likely to set the world alight, "Forget Me Not" still gets enough right to be an enjoyable romp for most horror fans. If sequels were anticipated by the makers, however, they were predictably disappointed.

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.

This movie wasn't all that bad. It's different than most other horror movies I've seen but in a good way, and actually, I thought it was good enough to watch more than once. I really liked this movie. Everything fits together by the end of it. It makes you wonder what's really going on or what might happen next because there isn't too much that's given away.At first, I thought that maybe the main character was really crazy and imagining everything out of guilt, and that none of it was real. The story's likable, the teenagers are stupid, but that's why they get to die. The characters were generic: the whore, bad boy, not so smart pretty girl, etc. Not much that needed explaining with them. If the main character had made friends with better people nothing bad would've ended up happening. Angela gets what she deserves in the end, and she gets all the "friends" she could ever want. As a whole this movie's alright. Watch it.