The Forgotten

This film is slow, there is no real storyline, no real action, no horror at all.

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

A decent ghost story in the tradition of MR James, the Ealing studios spooky portmanteau Dead Of Night, and the Woman In Black, set on an abandoned council estate scheduled for demolition where a father and son are forced to squat. The movies teenage protagonist is awoken each night by strange noises coming from the flat next door, and witnesses his fathers behaviour becoming ever more bizarre and disturbing. Befriended by a local girl, they start to explore the empty flat together and discover its dark history. This 2014 British horror film was the directorial debut of Oliver Frampton, and premiered at that years FrightFest in London. There are one or two hiccups along the way, and the loose ends are all tied up a little too neatly to bring about the finale, but it is genuinely affecting and chilling in parts, and is an impressive and mournful debut marking Frampton and writer James Hall as ones to watch.

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.

Well......this was a well written story with a great twist towards the end n a brilliant plot. There was some quite tense n suspenseful moments throughout the movie.

The acting was superb n the characters were full of charisma.

The ending was totally unexpected n unpredictable with a good twist.

I recommend this movie especially if you like suspense n high drama.