The lost 1982 sci-fi film finds it's soundtrack of analog synth darkness and primitive drum machines resurrected. Synthesizer mastermind Antoine Lemieux has his masterpiece remastered and rereleased.

Forget the Future: synopsis by Brian Theiss of Scarecrow Video Guide

Radical scientists invent a method of time travel and decide that it is their moral imperative to journey to the past and prevent humanity's greatest atrocities. Assembling an elite team of warriors and historical advisors they set their sights first on the obvious target of Adolf Hitler. After a non-violent method (curing his brother's measles) fails to send the Führer on a more peaceful path, they assassinate him in Vienna, leaving the young man splattered in his watercolors. Emboldened by their success, the team heads to Palos de la Frontera circa 1492 for a naval ambush of the Santa María, and then to Jerusalem, 30 AD, to rescue Jesus from the cross in a daring act of swashbuckling. But, as these things go, there are unintended consequences in the future. Jesus's rescuer finds herself worshipped as a Savior and decides she must now erase herself from the timeline in an ironically Christlike measure of self-sacrifice.

This would've been the story of Forget the Future, we think, had we ever seen it. The legendary 1982 b-movie is believed to have only been screened twice before the workprint was destroyed in a projection booth electrical fire in Santiago, Chile. Meanwhile, the negatives were stored so poorly as to be unusable, rendering the film, like many of its characters, lost to time. To speculate about the film's contents beyond what we know from remaining script excerpts and notes would be an act of historical revisionism not unlike those performed by the film's protagonists.

An independently financed international co-production, Forget the Future was filmed primarily in Rome, Manila and Concepción Bay with a largely unbilled cast. Alessandra Simonetti, the Italian beauty queen who played the heroine, has no other film credits. Claims have been made of on-set photographs showing American character actor Lance Henriksen in costume as Christopher Columbus, but this seems impossible as he would've been with James Cameron in Jamaica filming Piranha II at the time.

What remains is the psychedelic analog synth score by the mysterious French-Canadian composer and electronics wizard Antoine Lemieux. Though little is known of Lemieux himself beyond what can be ascertained from his patent applications, this soundtrack gives us our best clue about what the movie may have been like. Wisps of John Carpenter and Wendy Carlos twist through driving beats and ominous, gurgling bass tones, marching steadily toward a future that remains unwritten. Perhaps it's best that this is all that survives, the present day leftovers from a deleted past.