Review of Forget Me Not (2011) by Japes . — 20 Sep 2011

80% on the tomato meter? Bulllshittt. This movie sucked big time.

The movie is about a girl who meets this orphan and they play a game in the graveyard nearby. After a while the girl meets new friends and kind of ditches the orphan (who has no friends). One night the girl and her new friends play a trick on the orphan that accidentally puts her in a coma for 6 years. Then all the people involved with the trick start dying one by one by the orphan's ghost/spirit whatever. Also when a kid dies, it is like they never existed, so everyone forgets about them once the ghost kills them...at least everyone forgets except Sandy.

Acting: Not convincing whatsoever. There wasn't any chemistry between the actors, and all of the characters were underdeveloped. They were all stereotypical high schoolers who party hardy with sex and beer. It was so cliche.

Plot: Very unoriginal. The script was so boring and repetitive. One by one the high schoolers go missing, and it's very predictable about when they die. Most of the movie was just the kids saying "What are you talking about Sandy?". There was no climax really, it was just repetitive. One kid goes missing, then Sandy starts freaking out and she is the only one who remembers who dies. It's really stupid actually. There were a lot of cheap jump scares- all of which were executed poorly on the directors part. Jump scares are pretty easy to do, but somehow this movie fails to deliver even the cheapest element of a horror film.

SFX/Camera/Sound: They tried to make the ghosts like asian horror movies make theirs. It had kind of a grudge/the ring feel to it, but it was not as impressive. It looked totally fake. It was a little creepy, but the ghosts appear so much in the film, after a while they lose their creepiness. The sound was really messed up in this film...at least in some parts. I watched it on netflix and it was not my TV or connection, it was definitely the film. The sound didn't quite match what the people were saying...for example: At the party, the one girl is facing away from the camera looking at her boyfriend, and as she is talking directly to him, it sounds as if she is speaking right at the camera. It didn't sound like she was away from the camera at all. If that makes any sense....I pay really close attention to detail I guess. The camera work or editing was really terrible in this film. In one scene, the girl and boy are sitting in the pool talking. In one shot, the girl is right next to the boy in the pool, but then it shifts off of her for 2 seconds and when it goes back to the girl, she is half way across the pool on the other side. Either she's a really fast swimmer, or somebody screwed up.