The Forsaken (film)

The Forsaken is a 2001 horrorthriller film written and directed by J. S. Cardone. In Australia, its promotional title was The Forsaken Desert Vampires.

The Forsaken are a group of French Knights that during the First Crusade made a pact with the demon Abaddon to live forever. There were nine knights eight were turned into vampires and became known as the Forsaken the ninth was a sacrifice to Abaddon to seal the pact. Of the eight, four are dead, one is in Europe, one in Africa and two in the United States including the one Nick is tracking, Kit. Nick was bitten by a vampire but, thanks to an antiviral drug cocktail, the vampire virus is kept at bay. Each of the Forsaken carry a unique strain of the virus and killing the Forsaken kills the entire strain of virus killing all the vampires descended from it, and stopping anyone just infected from turning, which is why Nick is hunting this particular Forsaken. He believes him to be the one that his strain of the vampire virus is descended from and that if he kills him, he will not eventually turn into a vampire as the drug cocktail eventually will lose effect. At first Sean is less than willing to indulge his new acquaintance, but then they find Megan Izabella Miko, a girl Sean finds he is attracted to, bitten and left for dead by the vampires. Nick also proves he is telling the truth by killing a vampire, Teddy Alexis Thorpe, by exposure to sunlight.When Sean is infected with the vampire virus Megan bites his hand while hes covering her mouth, their only hope is to kill the vampire leader before it is too late. The Forsaken must be slain on hallowed ground, so the three head for a Spanish mission 60 miles away chased by the vampires and their day driver Penn Simon Rex. After a battle on the road Penn is killed and the car is running out of gas as its tank was shot so they are unable to reach the mission. They stop at a gas station where an old woman named Ina Carrie Snodgress lets them in after seeing Megan. She shows them a newspaper connecting Megan to a bloodbath in Arizona when Megan wakes up and is coherent enough to talk, she explains she was a victim of the va

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