The Forgotten

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07/16/2020 For a small British horror film, I was really impressed with what it manage to achieve and the tension created. See more r 9 02/29/2020 Uneventful. 'The Forgotten' is a rather dull horror flick. It builds a little bit of tension in parts, but ends up just sleepwalking to a crescendo which concludes before it even gets going; which leads to a somewhat abrupt finish. Elarica Gallacher and Clem Tibber do give solid enough performances, I will say that. See more 11/30/2017 A struggling father and meek teenage son move into an abandoned apartment complex and begin scrapping and selling for income. The mother is absent, and where she is we don't know immediately, though presumably she's alive. While scrapping, the teenager discovers a left-over token of St.Jude, the patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes. The teenager doesn't have much to do all day, no school, wandering around the streets, sketching in his journal, hanging around the apartment, but he meets an older teen girl who helps him against some local ruffians. Eventually he begins seeing things in the flat. His father has too many problems to cope with his son's claims, and the father gets into trouble. Luckily, the UK has free medical care, and the father finds himself in the hospital, leaving his son alone in the flat with its unusual occurrences. The mood is haunting, and the setting is deteriorating. The teenager elicits the help of the teen girl who pities his situation. The performances are natural and convincing. The writing is natural, and the dialogue feels as defensive and reluctant as a normal conversation between two young people who've just met each other in that situation. Sure they seem to each need a friend, but the relationship isn't rushed, and the haunting atmosphere keeps the interaction repressed. The haunting elements are a bit underscored, and they're not very frightening or good for a jump scare. There's less intrigue for the audience about the haunting than there is for the other subplots. Plus there's the question of why, when she's in the room the first time, the ending didn't happen then? The subplots progress, and as the movie goes on, the stories intersect for an ending that's unsurprising, peculiar, sedated, and melancholic. See more 09/23/2017 This was a great, engaging film without all of the goofy CGI that ruin most Hollywood horror films today. Definitely worth a watch! See more 06/22/2016 Unfortunately I'll never forget what a dull fizz 'The Forgotten' is or how flat I feel having wasted 90 mins watching it drearily approach it's timely and pathetic end. See more 06/21/2016 Great ending. Not a scary horror movie, but would definitely classify it under psychologically chilling. Not a thriller, but not really a drama either. See more Read all reviews

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