Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Backlash007 ~Spoiler~ The Forgotten One has been forgotten indeed. And regardless of the praise it has got on here, I was reluctant to watch it. According to the box it's an "erotic thriller." I wasn't sure I was ready to see the great Terry O'Quinn in an erotic thriller. After about 10 minutes or so into the movie, my fears were soon displaced. The Forgotten One starts off on a high note. O'Quinn plays a writer who buys an old house to shut himself up in and get his next novel written. He soon has some blood-chilling encounters with one of the previous owners of the house: a ghost. These scenes are shot brilliantly and creeped the hell out of me. I can't give the director enough praise for his old school approach to raising the hairs on my arms. It really reminded me of a lot of the things we are seeing from Asia right now (Ringu and Ju-on namely). However, the second part of the film is very drama-heavy and loses all of the horror. It's almost like a ghost movie you would find on the Lifetime channel. It's still a good movie, but not the spook classic it could have been. So I can't give it the raving recommendation that others have. I can say that if you enjoy a good ghost story, check it out. Just be warned that it easily could have been a genre classic but fell short.

Woodyanders The always outstanding Terry ("The Stepfather," "Pin") O'Quinn gives a typically vivid, intense and beautifully wrought performance as Bob Anderson, an affable and eccentric novelist who smokes raunchy cigars, wears a fedora and suffers from writer's block because of the recent untimely death of his wife. Bob moves into a creepy, decrepit old Victorian house that's haunted by the dangerously seductive and melancholy spirit of murdered, adulterous 19th century housewife Evelyn James (a fine, sultry debut performance by Blair Parker, a voluptuous, raven-haired brunette beauty who looks quite delectable sans clothes). Evelyn wants the troubled, on edge Bob to kill himself and join her in the after life so she won't be lonely and unloved anymore. Writer/director Phillip Badger does an adept job of creating and sustaining an appropriately brooding, spooky atmosphere, the story may not be especially novel, but it's constantly absorbing throughout, the ever-spunky Kristy McNichol contributes an appealing turn as a concerned neighbor, grossly underused late, great flash-in-the-pan 80's scream queen Elisabeth ("The Howling," "Deep Space") Brooks has a nice cameo as a foxy night club torch singer, the movie offers an almost painfully poignant, trenchant and accurate examination of how maddening loneliness can become, and the startlingly bleak conclusion packs a potent emotional punch. Eerie, erotic and refreshingly offbeat, "The Forgotten One" qualifies as an extremely well-done and undeservedly neglected little fright film sleeper.

Paul Andrews The Forgotten One starts as novelist Bob Anderson (Terry O'Quinn) drives into Denver, Colorado to begin a new life after the death of his wife several months earlier. He rents a nice house where he thinks he will be alright but he will be anything but alright as he begins to experience dreams which rapidly turn into nightmares & he has the worst case of writers block he ever has, he can't get past the word 'the' on the first page (now that's what I call writers block!). However Bob strikes up a relationship with one of his neighbours Barbara Stupple (Kristy McNichol) whom seem to like each other. One night Bob has a one night stand with a singer named Carla (Elizabeth Brooks) who, while walking around Bob's house, sees a ghost with empty eye sockets & falls out of a second storey window badly injuring herself. This is just the start as Bob himself is witness to the ghost, he hears voices & he sees her in his basement. Upon closer inspection Bob discovers a grisly secret in the basement & a tragic past that surrounds it that threatens his very life...Written & directed by Phillip Badger I thought The Forgotten One was going to be crap but as it turned out I actually quite liked it, it ain't perfect but it's a decent supernatural thriller/horror that probably deserves to be more well known. The script is sort of divided into two, the first half of the film is all about ghostly goings on & this is the horror part of the film with a nice creepy mysterious atmosphere to it but then during the second half it changes into a Fatal Attraction (1987) clone as our ghost Evelyn (Blair Parker) suddenly turns into a beautiful young woman who tries to seduce Bob & even ends up killing his cat. Obviously the first half is far superior to the second as it tries, & succeeds, to be a spooky horror film that builds itself up. Unfortunately the whole beautiful ghost, sex, piano tune, back story type themes that emerge during the slower second half just don't work as well & seem at odds with what has gone on previously but it still manages to both maintain interest & entertain, you can't really ask for more than that I suppose. It's slightly slow & sedate pace may put some people off as will the lack of any significant action or special effect scenes. There are only four character's in the entire film worth mentioning so it's a very character driven story which some may like while other's may not, the very downbeat ending won't sit well with those who like happy 'everythings worked out perfectly' Hollywood ones.Director Badger tells a pretty good tale although I wish the film as a whole was more consistent & he had gone for genuine creepiness & scares throughout the entire duration rather than letting things degenerate into a love story between the ghostly Evelyn & Bob. There's a nice atmosphere running through the film & it has some nice sequences. There is no blood, gore or violence as The Forgotten One relies on storytelling for it's effectiveness. There is however a fair amount of nudity & sex during the latter stages as our ghost Evelyn isn't scared to get her bits'n'pieces out for all to see.Technically The Forgotten One is fine, there's no flashy camera work or special effects but it's generally well made. The acting is pretty good & I don't have any complaints here.The Forgotten One was a lot better than I had expected but at the same time didn't quite do enough to totally impress, it's well worth a watch for sure but I doubt many would want to see it more than once & if only the second half had been as good as the first this could have been a little gem of a film, unfortunately it isn't so it ain't.

Rish Outfield I had never heard of this film, and didn't think this would be too great. But this movie was pretty damn good. Who knew? I am a little biased, because I really like Terry O'Quinn (from those good old "Stepfather" movies). But I'm also biased in the other direction, since I really dislike Kristy McNichol. In this film, a recently-widowed writer moves into a house in Denver, only to find it haunted by a blood-curdlingly scary (at first) ghost. When he collects enough courage to investigate, he finds that the ghost is actually a blood-warmingly hot woman, who died in the house. His neighbour (McNichol), first believes him crazy, then tries to save him as he falls in love with the occasionally bare-naked and occasionally homicidal ghost. The first half was very scary, and by the end, it actually got pretty sweet. In the end, I was very glad I watched it, and a pleasant surprise is the best surprise of all.