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The Forsaken

Starring: Brendan Fehr, Kerr Smith
Director: JS Cardone
Original UK Premiere: 2001
Dvd Release: 25th March, 2002
Number Of Discs: 1
Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

Subtitled In: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
Dubbed In: German

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Background Information: The Forsaken

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The Forsaken is a 2001 film directed by JS Cardone. It stars Brendan Fehr & Kerr Smith. Posters Of The Forsaken

DVD Extras

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DVD Extras: The Forsaken comes to DVD with three tiny deleted scenes, two minimal featurettes, trailers, filmographies, & a dry but absorbing commentary track from director JS. Cardone.

Editorial DVD Review

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A road/vampire movie with teen leads, The Forsaken feels a lot like a sexed-up pilot for a TV series. Kerr Smith takes a job driving a classic car from LA to Miami, with clear instructions that no harm should come to the wheels & he shouldnt pick up hitch-hikers. In the middle of nowhere he is manipulated into giving a lift to a drifting slacker who turns out to have been bitten by a vampire year or so back. Fehr is keeping the transformation into a blood-drinking monster under control with medication, but needs to destroy the master fiend who sired his attacker to effect a total cure. When Smith is nibbled by traumatised babe Isabella Miko, he is infected too & they all hare off to track down Kit , a medieval French knight currently cruising the backroads with a posse of minion-cum-killer associates.

Unlike Near Dark, from which it steals a lot, The Forsaken is pretty feeble in its re-imagining of the vampire myth: Shaech is just another pin-up pretty boy with highlit eyes who bungles his master villainy, while the very striking Phina Oruche is wasted in an eye-candy role as his nastiest disciple. Smith & Fehr do better in the traditionally weak hero parts, benefiting from snappy patter, but the plot keeps tripping over itself & the blood orgies & vampire combustions are third-hand.

Biography: Brendan Fehr

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Brendan Jacob Joel Fehr. He was raised in Winnipeg where in 1996 he was cast in an early internet soap opera CR6. He broke into television in 1997 when he was cast into Breaker High. Posters Of Brendan Fehr

Editors Choice: The Forsaken, Sugar, The Long Weekend, View DVDology

Biography: Kerr Smith

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Kerr Smith is an American actor best known as Jack McPhee on the television drama Dawsons Creek. Born in Exton, Pennsylvania, he also had roles on As the World Turns as Teddy Hughes from 1996 to 1997 & in the films Final Destination & The Broken Hearts Club, written & directed by Dawsons Creek writer Greg Berlanti. Posters Of Kerr Smith

Editors Choice: Cruel Intentions 3, The Forsaken, View DVDology

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