The Forgotten Ones

I first saw this more than a decade back on a dvd which I own. Got enticed into buyin the dvd cos of the trailer n the concept of creatures on an uninhabited island. Revisited it recently but fast forwarded most boring scenes. The creatures are not scary, the killings are offscreen n the most dumbest thing is the ending.

Five pals are marooned on a secluded n uninhabited island after their boat crashes. They are hunted n killed off by creatures which do not just kill for territorial issues but rather for their savage nature. One of the pal is able to find out the weakness about the creatures n uses it to her advantage.

Basically a poor n cheap version of Descent, Predator, Wolfman, etc. The faces of the creatures n their bodies r ripped off from Ford Coppola's Dracula (the beast in the garden). The lead babe resembles a slimmer version of Rosamund Pike.

The film has three different titles, so be careful n try avoiding this film to save ur time. The names r, After Dusk They Come, The Tribe n The Forgotten Ones.

I have the dvd of its remake too. Surprisingly, the producers remade it in just one year with a new director, script, and cast, under the title The Lost Tribe. Will revisit the movie n post a review.

After watching this my conclusion is that this movie is almost a rip off of the first Predator movie .The monsters for instance bare a certain resemblance to the original Predator .They're all tall and they're blind .In the original Predator the alien had Infa Red vision .I did'nt care much for the characters either they were all pretty much disgustingly spoiled obnoxious individuals.Even more unbelievable that all the burly male characters were all dispatched of pretty easily and the only remaining character is the skinny woman who manages to outsmart this tribe of monsters and after being flung around by the alfa male of the tribe manages to decapitate him making her the new leader of the tribe.Total nonsense.

Let me start off by saying that this movie is in no way a gore filled Slasher movie nor a big budget monster film. What it is however is a very decent low budget thriller. The special effects on the "monsters" (for lack of a better word) and the rest of the film, are above average for movies that don't have a lot of money. The script, though slightly boring and a little on the lame side as far as the characters go, was actually not bad overall. The actors were decent enough although not entirely believable in the situation. However, Jewel Staite definitely stands out as the best and most believable in her role. She is absolutely one of the most beautiful and sexy, underrated actors around. I don't really see why she wasn't recast in the newer version that they are making.

It is hard to fill ten lines of comment for this movie. What has to be said? Well, the monsters are monstrous, the girl pretty (in some common way), the island mysterious. All of them do their job. Cinematography is not that bad, you just get the sense of people lost in a wild forest. Of course the writer had to fill some space with irrelevant anthropology about characters that are not even mean enough to deserve such misfortune or so nice to make you cry. As a matter of facts monsters look more interesting and complex. I would have liked that some destiny, or original sin had pushed the humans to that place. It would have meant some stars more.

The best way to describe the movie is: redundant. Not a single frame of it is original. Everything has been done before and better. The group of victims, their dynamic, the setting, the monsters, the killings. Everything is just a rehash of a cliché of a stereotype.

As far as horror films go, this is one of the lamest. The group of people is amongst the dullest, least developed bunch of morons without chemistry ever. The plot is something you and your friends come up with in 5 alcohol infested minutes when joking about bad horror plots. The setting is more like "Let's get paid to go to a Paradise Island!" The killings all follow the horror formula and are less gory than I've come to expect.

All in all, this was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It wasn't as bad as classic early Boll, but that just made it worse. "The Tribe" is bad in a totally unfunny and unentertaining way, it's just plain and simple a waste of lifetime.