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.
Review of The Forgotten
The Forgotten
(I) (2014)
A creepy British ghost story from 2014 in the tradition of MR James
16 June 2020