Ian West’s review published on Letterboxd:
The Forsaken is a solid early 2000’s road movie vampire jam with some decent gore (nice headshot), lots of nu metal, tons of glitchy editing, and plenty of dusty desolate sun drenched Arizona highways. I don’t really think this really feels like From Dusk Till Dawn or other post Scream horror movies (despite the setting, poster, and time frame) but more so hits a Near Dark/Badlands/J-Carp’s Vampires vibe... which it kinda pulls off in its own in its own doofy and fun way.
I actually saw this forgotten movie in theaters in 2001 on a Friday night at a mall and was a pretty big fan of it for years... and I don’t think it, it’s cast, or it’s headache inducing editing aged very well which is always a bummer... but hey... while it might not be as good as i remember (or as any of those movies I mentioned earlier), I still think it’s a fun late night watch—a decent little slice of slightly above average vamp cinema before the late 2000’s Twilight boom oversaturated the market. I mean where else will you find a vampire road movie with homoerotic subtext AND vampire Johnathan Schaech singing enter sandman?
In this 2001 movie with a Coal Chamber needledrop, that’s where!