The Forgotten (1973)
1/10
To avoid fainting keep repeating....it's only a movie...it's only a movie....it's only a movie...
7 February 2004
That was the tag line used to sell this movie back in 1973. It played at mostly drive-ins along with "Last House on the Left" and "The House That Vanished". This triple feature was so incredibly popular it kept playing at drive-ins into the mid 80s! Never saw "House That Vanished" but "Last House..." was sadistic trash. This is boring trash!

A "horror" film about inmates at a sanitarium who are getting a little out of control. Young, beautiful nurse Charlotte Beale (Rosie Holotik) comes to work there. She finds a new administrator under control--Dr. Masters (Annabelle Weenick). The former one had been killed by one of his patients. But things are fine now...or are they?

There is a plot twist in this which you'll probably see coming from a mile away--but I still won't reveal it.

This has a nice murder at the beginning and turns into an all out bloodbath at the end---but everything in the middle is dull! It just has a bunch of horrible bad actors portraying mental patients--and very badly too. Padded endlessly with repititous scenes, pointless dialogues, horribly unfunny "humor" and some really gratuitous nudity. Basically a 30 minute feature dragged out to 90 minutes.

There is some good acting by Holotik and Weenick and also Betty Chandler as Allyson--but that's about it. ALMOST worth seeing for the incredible gore at the end...ALMOST.

For drive-in cultists only. Otherwise avoid.
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