The Forgotten Ones (2008)

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.

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.

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.

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)