Review by Mari Lynne Rupp
I have been watching horror movies for almost 25 years. There's not much you can throw me that I haven't already seen, just dress it up differently to get my attention. There's slasher, monster, disaster, paranormal.
Forget-Me-Not is basically vengeful ghost story, kind of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" mixed with "The Grudge". Only...Different. Most vengeful ghosts kill you. Our vengeful ghost isn't yet a ghost and she not only kills you....She erases you. You cease to exist. Your parents don't remember you. You just never existed.
The synopsis is, (from IMDB)it's graduation weekend, and Sandy Channing,(Carly Schroeder) the popular class president of her small-town high school, should be enjoying the time of her life. But when her friends (Cody Linley, Brie Gabrielle, Micah ALberti, Sean Wing) start disappearing, Sandy discovers they have unwittingly awakened the vengeful spirit of a girl they wronged long ago. Fighting for her sanity, Sandy must unlock a dark secret from her own past before it's too late.
Written and brilliantly directed by Tyler Oliver, this movie grabs your attention right off, with a smack-you-in-the-face opening scene, and segues into the characters' lives and personalities. You don't have sympathy for all of them, but that doesn't water down the suspense when the action starts and the first few teens start disappearing. The changes of the "erased" lives are subtle but unnerving, and the climax, though a tad predictable, still leaves you cheering for a sequel. I'm a long-in-the-tooth horror groupie, but this has given a different taste in my mouth, and I have to give credit to Tyler Oliver and his co-writer Jamieson Stern, for giving me something new to see this year. 8/10.