Movie Name : The Forsaken
Actress Name : Phina Oruche and Alexis Thorpe
Year : 2001
In 2001 movie The Forsaken. Actresses Phina Oruche and Alexis Thorpe play as villains Cym and Teddy. Cym is one of my favorite villainesses of all time, I would die to be with her, I love this character so much, It's amazing that Phina Oruche still performing till today, and I really hope the entertainment industry recover and see anything as good or even close to how it was in 1990s and 2000s, sadly the entire genres of vampires, werewolves, demons basically doesn't exist, I can't even imagine how boring movies would be for someone who never explored such movies, fiction must be bleak, depressing and extremely boring exactly like The Neverending Story II, the scene with Rockbiter surronded with lifeless piece of land, being very dark and depressing, it's very scary, The Neverending Story was made for children, but when you grow up you understand how terrifying his vision was, and that's where the entertainment is at the moment, in the most lifeless, depressing, soulless stage it its history, and to be fair, it's not just entertainment, most jobs that require human creativity are now at risk, there's an actual risk that everything humanity struggled to build just go away as if it meant nothing..
Anyway, let's start the movie, let's have some fun, It's been a really long time since I watched this movie, so, I basically don't remember what was it about, it feels like I'm watching it for the first time.
I assume the movie have a similar plot to Wrong Turn, like the idea of going somewhere in some place you weren't supposed to be, which is kind why I think smart phones or portable phones as a whole should never exist in movies, because it ruin everything, like the idea of the existence of smartphones and modern tech ruin movies, it's better to pretend it doesn't exist, because if it does exist, the immersion in the story will be destroyed, because the reaction would be like this "How come no one knows and smart phones everywhere?" "How come they don't use the smartphone to call someone?", "How come the location is isolated while there's smart phones?". The story will be completely ruined, there's no escapism, there's no immersion, unless high tech is essential to the story in movies like Unfriended, Unfriended: Dark Web, or Searching, it shouldn't exist at all.
Ok, that was really smart, around 6 minutes, the protagonist was on the road, and a sitting on the car next to him took off her shirt, the protagonist kept tracking her car and suddenly the car vanished.. Here's why this is really smart, the movie is basically building anticipation, it gets your attention, it knows you will focus on the moment, it basically put you in the shoes of the hero, so, when the hero pay attention to the car, you also pay attention to it, and when the car disappears, you became as confused as the protagonist..
Villains can easily build such anticipation, for example, one of my favorite villainesses of all time is Meghan in Cyberjack, in one scene, one of her team was injured, being so stunning, you are anticipating what she's gonna do, she got your whole attention, and suddenly instead of helping him, she finish him, similar thing in The Walking Dead when Negan first appeared, before that you have no idea who he is, then you see him, showing insane charisma, a great writing and delivery, the character gets your full attention, all of that in order to build anticipation for what's to come, that's how when you have a really good villainous character, you build such anticipation that would require much efforts to build with a heroic character, while with villains, it's a piece of cake.. And without such buildup of anticipation, you can't have immersion in the story, you can't have escapism, all is left is boredom, which is the case with movies today..
I totally forgot, there are two female villains in this movie not one, the other villainess is Teddy played by Alexis Thorpe..
Damn, Alexis Thorpe was in The Man from Earth, Nip/Tuck and Friends, nice Filmography..
Anyway, the heroes encountered the villains around 16 minutes mark, and the villains let them go, even tho Cym sensed that one of them is a vampire hunter I guess.
The heroes found the good girl scared and the waitress asking her to pay her bill and he decided to pay it for her, so, when our beloved villainess asked them for money they said they didn't give it to her, and instead give it to the one in need? What an asshole!!
Around 26 minutes, Teddy went to invite a group of campers to a meal with her and her friends, isn't she the greatest?! πππ
God damn, the main villain ripped the heart out of one of the campers, and another one of the campers shot his dick by mistake, LOL, the best scene of the movie till now, very short tho, It should've lasted longer, it feels weird as if it was cut short..
I guess Teddy died around 34 minutes, it came out of nowhere, as if something was missing..
Around 47 minutes, our villains went in a car chase after the heroes..
The only thing that make this movie worth watching is Cym, other than that, having three vampires spending the whole movie chasing three people isn't really fun, even when they went after the campers, it was very short in comparison of how the movie takes so much time focus on the heroes yapping and in their hotel room and on the road, like these scenes should've build towards something instead of wasting time and work as a filler for a movie that doesn't have much to offer.
Anyway, around 50 minutes our villainess is having fun with the main villain of the movie, and finally we see couple of dudes in their car and being stopped by the gorgeous villainess, I mean, come on, who can resist her?
Like, wouldn't you love to fight the gods and whole of humanity to win her over, even if it will unleash her evil on the world? Can you imagine playing a game where you fight all the gods, but not to win over the good princess, on the contrary, releasing the most dangerous and the most beautiful vampire in existence, and when you do, you kiss your lost love and humanity awaits its dark fate, The Mummy kind of did that, except that Anck Su Namun wasn't actually evil, and Imhotep already had superpowers and love story, like, he wasn't a normal person worshiping a dark entity and want to win over such dark entity.
The vampires killed the two random guys who were in the car, I'm not sure if this movie was meant to be originally a vampire movie, like if they want to drink their blood, shouldn't they keep them fresh, instead of killing them first then drink their blood, it's also a waste, if they don't care about wasting their food, how about other vampires who face a really hard time to hunt, especially new vampires, like, do these vampires only think about themselves, the food they have wasted could've fed entire family of vampires!!
The girl the two heroes trying to save is one of the most forgettable characters ever, I kind of forget that she exist, then I see her, and go like "Wait, she's in the movie", and she is supposed to be the center of the story and the audience is supposed to care about her, so if any main character died, they go like "At least the good girl was saved by the end", but it's not the case, if she died, I wouldn't even notice, like, please, Cym, kill her already, less screen time for her please!
So, basically Teddy had the chance to kill her, but she didn't, she's the one that caused all these troubles, and now Kit and Cym have to fix her mistake π π π .
Around 1 hour 10 minutes, Kit and Cym attacked the motel the heroes are in, and the last confrontation starts from there..
I wouldn't watch the movie, or rewatch the movie if not for the villainess, because I watched it for the first time even tho, I didn't know there was a villainess in it, but the movie is interesting, the movie doesn't even address the idea that vampires effected by the cross at any point, also the idea of wooden stake, they just drink blood and have a weak point when it comes to being exposed to the sun, the vampires also don't show superpowers, I'm not sure when it started for vampires to be able move really fast, but I first noticed it in The Vampire Diaries, the movie also didn't show if vampires have the power of mind compulsion, like when the main villain forced some dude to do what he wanted, he used a gun to do it, it's like having vampires with there supernatural abilities and characteristics reduced to the minimum. My favorite characters in this movie are Kit and Cym, I wish Teddy played more active role, but she was mainly a plot device to show that sun works as a weak point for vampires and to show that they are vampires, which was a waste, her character deserved more.
Overall the movie is so fun to watch, and you will never find modern movie as good, especially if you are into the action/vampire genre.
