| Forget Me Not | |
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| Directed by | Tyler Oliver |
| Written by | Tyler Oliver Jamieson Stern |
| Starring | Cody Linley Carly Schroeder Chloe Bridges Jillian Murray Micah Alberti |
| Music by | Elia Cmiral |
| Cinematography | Eric Leach |
| Editing by | Radu Ion |
| Distributed by | Vindicated Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 24, 2009 (Fantasy Filmfest) |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Forget Me Not is a 2009 American supernatural horror film. The film stars Cody Linley, Carly Schroeder, Chloe Bridges, Jillian Murray, and Micah Alberti. It is also written and directed by Tyler Oliver, and is a limited release.
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The film opens with a young girl (Courtney Biggs) running through a graveyard, crying, her face covered with skull paint. She makes it to her house and her parents ask her what's wrong. The little girl, named Sandy, responds by stating, "I don't remember."
Years later, Sandy Channing and her brother, Eli, are both academic students with scholarships to Stanford University. They go to a party at night, and they and their friends go to the graveyard to play a game. As they are about to start, a girl their age asks to play. They allow her, and they play a different version of tag, where one of them is a ghost, and whoever the ghost tags becomes a ghost until there is one left. Eli, who is the ghost, and the others tag everyone, leaving the girl the winner. As Sandy tells her that she's won, the girl asks if she remembers her. Sandy cannot remember, and the girl jumps from the cliff behind her. The police arrive but are unable to find a body.
The next day, Layla, after getting dumped by Chad, disappears when she is pulled into a lake while trying to retrieve a ring. The group goes on a trip without Layla, whom no one seems to remember. When T.J. dies mysteriously, no one but Sandy remembers him. The group leaves on the trip in two separate vehicles, and Chad is attacked and killed when his car explodes, causing Sandy to realize that there is now one vehicle.
Sandy and her fellow teens then see Chad's car, battered and dirty in a junkyard. However, for some strange reason, no one but Sandy knows who Chad is, and soon they drive to T.J.'s house, which is vacant and ruined. As Sandy goes into the house with her boyfriend Jake and Eli, the other girls, Lex and Hannah, get into a fight. On the other hand, Sandy begins to remember the girl from the graveyard as her friend when she was little, but nothing more. Later, Lex is killed by what appears to be undead versions of her murdered friends, with Sandy witnessing her demise. The other three think Sandy is losing her mind, as none of the others remember Lex anymore.
Sandy and the others go to the police station, where they learn the mysterious girl's name is Angela Smith and she lives in a convent. Sandy begs her friends to go with her, and they agree, but also agree to wait until morning. At a local hotel, Sandy sleeps due to a sleeping pill in her drink while Hannah and Eli go to the pool and make love. Eli goes back up to the room to find Jake trying to contain Sandy who is throwing herself around in the room. Hannah is killed, and Sandy and Jake are now alone in the hotel room. Eli calls Sandy and tells her he can no longer cover for her. She then tells him to meet her at the convent. She and Jake then discover Angela is in a coma. At the convent, Jake is killed. Eli, who doesn't remember Jake, picks up a shaken Sandy. Sandy cries over her dead boyfriend, and Eli begins to realize that they are being erased in time. After heading home, Sandy, whose parents thinks she has gone insane, is sedated and taken to the hospital. While there, Eli is attacked (and, presumably, killed) by the undead versions of his murdered friends.
Later, Sandy dreams of a time where she and her friends played a scary prank on Angela, who has a seizure in front of the convent. It is later revealed that the girl at the beginning of the film is also Angela. Sandy wakes and goes to Angela's room where she turns off her life support. She then leaves the room but then turns around to see Angela sitting up in her bed. Sandy then chased up to the roof by the ghosts of her friends, and encounters a young Angela. Despite a failed attempt to reason with her, Sandy falls from the roof of the hospital. The film then ends with Angela waking up from her coma, while Sandy takes her place in a coma of her own.
Forget Me Not was released at the Fantasy Filmfest on August 24, 2009. The film grossed $1,852 on its opening weekend. It has a grossed a total of $7,550 to date.
The film has received mostly negative reviews from film critics. It has mainly been criticized for non-credible acting, a predictable plot, and lack of scares. The film has been praised for showing teenagers in a more realistic light, however.
Forget Me Not was released on DVD on May 24, 2011.