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mariocki · 6 months ago

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The Forgotten (Don't Look in the Basement, 1973)

"Perhaps I shouldn't have come here at all."

"I don't think there's any point in our talking about your leaving, Miss Beale. You forget, you were very anxious to take this job. I made special provisions for you to be here."

"I realise that, but I don't know what to do!"

"I'm the doctor and you're the nurse, and what I do decides what you will do!"

#the forgotten #don't look in the basement #blood tw #horror film #american cinema #video nasty #s.f. brownrigg #tim pope #rosie holotik #bill mcghee #annabelle weenick #gene ross #betty chandler #harryette warren #jessie lee fulton #robert dracup #michael harvey #jessie kirby #hugh feagin #camilla carr #rhea macadams #properly dingy DIY horror filmmaking. when you consider this was just the year before Texas Chain Saw Massacre‚ the gulf in ability and #execution between two contemporary indie horror shockers that both ended up on the video nasty list is.. staggering really #pretty clearly shot on short ends‚ this suffers badly from just what a budget production it is; real shoddy cheapo hours here‚ and it #bleeds through in every scene and in every aspect of this film. an obvious plot and a plodding script do nothing to help and honestly this #is low grade stuff but if it has one saving grace it's the spirited performances of an almost entirely unknown cast. these actors are #giving it everything and honestly they deserved a better project to be a part of: Holotik is a little shaky at first but comes into her own #during the frantic madness of the final act‚ McGhee manages to make something genuinely likeable and sympathetic of a potentially very #tactless role as a victim of lobotomy; most of all it's Gene Ross as the disturbed Judge‚ whose desperate struggle with his own repressed #humanity and discomfort with human interaction is actually beautifully played in a series of affecting moments

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