This is a fairly well made barely a little entertaining, blatant rip-off of John Carpenter's Vampires.
shareTwo guys travelling with a girl who is turning into a vampire looking for the the vamp that bit the girl and one of the guys is also secretly turning himself. No similarities there. Eh, maybe it's not a valid argument because one movie is good and the other is "The Forsaken".
shareUnless you forgot, the main character is going to his sisters wedding when he comes up to a hitchiker & then wind up helping the girl. How many vampire movies are there where a infected person hunts down the person to break their curse? All of them practically. It was not a rip off of Vampires.
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i htought the movie was good but that might jsut be me.
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i was gonna say both have similarities to near dark, but that's mostly cuz they're all vampire films that mostly take place in the desert
other than that i really don't see the similarities.. from what i remember of john carpenter's vampires it was a team of vampire hunters not just two guys. at the very least the vibe i got from these two movies was very different, and let's face it most vampire movies are cut from very similar cloth
in any case and despite being a big john carpenter (but mostly of his pre-1990s output) i have to say i enjoyed the forsaken much more than vampires
In Vampires, if you recall, most of the team gets killed and we spend most of the movie with Baldwin and Woods and the bitten girl.
sharethey are equally crappy :)
shareThis flick was on cable a few years ago, and for the first of two minutes that I spent watching it, I thought for a moment that it was the Carpenter film, or maybe a direct-to-video sequel.
Whatever...
Here in Italy they changed the title to "Desert Vampires" ...
shareThis film had a very different feel to it than JC's Vampires. Vampires didnt feel like a road movie, and the vampires themselves are portrayed very differently, more human-like. The leading males are more likeable in this film, Woods' character in JC Vampires annoyed the hell out of me (no fault of Woods).
The role of the girl in both films is similar though, ie gratuitous nudity and telepathic link to boss vampire...suppose both films are simply trying to appeal to their target audiences by supplying eye candy. Shame though, as I feel film would have been better if female character hadn't been underdeveloped.
Last time I checked there actual was a sequal to the original 'vampires' with bon jovi in it called 'vampire los muertos'.
It might not a sequal but it's entertaining.
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That's exactly what I was thinking! Two males with a blonde female whose been bitten in a sexualized near rape experience in a dark room using her as a telepathic link to the vamp who turned her and his clan of weaker members. It's like they watched John Carpenter's Vampires and wrote the script immediately after. The only difference is Vampires is a much better movie.
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yes its basically the plot of jc's vampires with the added near dark nomad element
shareWhat nobody in this thread has picked up on is the setting.
It is the setting that makes The Forsaken seem very similar to John Carpenter's Vampires, as well as the plot points that other's have discussed.
BUT... the idea of vampires in the SW desert was not an original idea for Carpenter. It was Tarantino who started this idea of using the SW desert as the setting in From Dusk Till Dawn. It was such a powerful connection that everyone imitated it. Even when they made the horrid Queen of the Damned film version they changed the setting from San Francisco to out in the SW desert.
For a long time the setting for Vampires was always Central Europe. Then with Tarantino it got changed to the SW. Now with Twilight it the Pacific NW. Oh well.
Hey cdt21,
I am responding to this 10 years later because you were absolutely correct and I was absolutely wrong. My God 15 year old me was a huge douche.
I always thought it was closer to Joy Ride.