Review #48: The Forgotten (2014)


This review was originally written in October 2017.

Horror Movie October day 22: The Forgotten

Now don't get this movie confused with the 2004 Julianne Moore film; this one is from 2014 and is British. It's about a kid who goes to live with his dad in an abandoned apartment complex, and he starts hearing noises coming from the flat next door. He meets a girl who helps him investigate it, and long story short not really ghosts but sort of ghosts.

This was a fairly slow-paced movie with very little dialogue, but for the most part it works. The atmosphere is super strong in this movie- it even gives me a slight Silent Hill vibe (old-school Silent Hill, like the first game and parts of the second) during all of the portions where the characters are walking around in the dark with lanterns. It was pretty spooky and it kept me interested, though in the end it didn't amount to much.

Speaking of the end, I don't understand the ending at all. The girl turns out to be the child of the couple that were murdered in the apartment next door, and when she goes there she sees a ghost of her mother and then the main character's dad shows up possessed by the spirit of her father... or something... and then she vanishes and everyone starts forgetting she even existed? I don't really get where that came from or what it's supposed to mean.

All in all it was an enjoyable movie but the ending kind of took a turn straight into a brick wall.

Final Rating: 7/10 Strangely coincidental familial connections

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