The Lost Future

Did You Know?

• The film premiered on Syfy on 13 November 2010.
• The DVD release includes a making-of featurette and cast and crew interviews.
• The film was intended as a 12A rating but was rated 15 due to an explicit sex scene.

Plot

In a post-apocalyptic world, a tribe of survivors lives in a primitive society without technology in a small village within the former Grey Rock National Park. They hunt animals and avoid the "beasts," bestial human mutants who transmit a disease that turns victims into mutants. The tribal leader is Uri, whose son Savan is the best hunter and his father's successor. Kaleb, the best tracker and an under-appreciated hunter, and his sister Miru are the only literate survivors, taught by their father Jaret before he went missing. Jaret believed other survivors might exist outside the park and went searching for them. Kaleb is secretly in love with Savan's woman, Dorel. When mutants attack, the surviving tribe members, including Miru, flee to a cave and block the entrance with logs. Some young hunters want to fight, but the tribal elder says they should pray and accept God's will. Trapped outside, Kaleb saves Dorel from a mutant, and they and Savan leave to find help. A stranger, Amal, approaches them and invites them to his home across a river, explaining that mutants fear water. He tells them the disease is airborne and they will all turn into mutants. Amal reveals he knew Jaret, who discovered a yellow powder formula that cures the infection and grants immunity if taken before transformation is complete. Amal, Jaret, and others formed a brotherhood to distribute the powder, but Gagen killed Jaret and stole the remaining yellow powder, setting up a base in a ruined city where he gives it only to those who serve him. The group travels downriver toward Gagen's city. Amal lights a signal fire atop an old monolith to summon other brotherhood members. Mutants attack; Amal is injured and trapped in a crevasse, and the others continue without him, believing him dead.

Reception

Scott Foy of Dread Central rated the film 2/5 stars, calling it "a classier piece of cinema than the typical schlock Syfy produces" but noting it is too rushed, has too many characters and dangling storylines, and the action sequences cannot compensate for the shortcomings. Rod Lott of the Oklahoma Gazette wrote that the film "should be 'Lost' forever" and concluded, "Yeah, I hated it." The Daily Sun praised the acting, writing, and special effects but found the cast too clean and pretty to be convincing.