The Forgotten

If you want a gory slasher then this isn't for you. If however, you like a traditional unsettling ghost story then this is for you. The acting is superb, each character draws you in to the plot. You actually give a damn about each and every person involved. There's no annoying, spoiled teenagers or jock type males, just ordinary folk. The pace is such that it builds suspense and tension. The use of music is subtle and unobtrusive. There's no annoying or overly dramatic screaming or shouting, over use of unnecessary violence or terribly executed gore. I genuinely can't think of another modern day story of phantasms told in such a perfect way. Had me on the edge of my seat from beginning to end.

The slasher people won't like it, the jiggly bimbo people won't like it, but the psychological horror people will probably enjoy it.

It is a rather slow-moving film, not a lot of yacking, and you have to pay attention to impressions because they're doling out facts with an eye-dropper.

The protagonists, though, are sympathetic, and the acting is good, and there are some genuine chills along the way, especially toward the climax.

I admit, I'm still chewing on the ending to make sense of it, but still recommend.

This movie is extremely restrained, minimalistic, "slow-burning" as another reviewer puts it. It's in fact too restrained. Far too restrained.

Ostensibly the movie is about some sinister ghostly going-ons in an ugly run-down flat in England. For the vast majority of the run time, we follow a lonely kid living in this run-down flat with his distant father. Late at night he hears odd thumpings and thudding sounds in the flat next to his. He suspects maybe it's someone stuck in there or something. His only friend and companion is a girl named Carmen, the only person around his age who s attention to him without bullying him.

This eats up the majority of the playtime, and if you're interested in the characters, good for you. Unfortunately there's very little that is compelling about this story at all. The supernatural elements come in so sparingly that it seems almost goofily out of place in an otherwise straightforward, realistic film. It's restrained to such a degree that it becomes a distraction, sticking out hard from the rest of the film.

Once we finally do get the plot to unfold, it's very late in the film, and the resolution is rushed along to such a degree that, being bored as I was by much of the first 2/3rds of the film, I missed something very quick and suddenly the last 10 minutes made very little sense to me. Looking at the other spoiler-filled reviews helped me to understand, but this movie left so little a mark on me that I just didn't care.

There is zero atmosphere to this so called suspense horror the performances are lack lustre at best, the tilt is laughable because there is absolutely nothing to be afraid of! 96 minutes of my life I wasted and will never get back, domt do it to yourself

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.