The Forgotten (1973 film)

The Forgotten also known as Dont Look in the Basement is a 1973 horror film directed by S. F. Brownrigg, written by Tim Pope and starring Bill McGhee, former Playboy model Rosie Holotik, and Anne MacAdams.

The only remaining doctor appears to be Dr. Geraldine Masters Anne MacAdams, who is greeted by Charlotte Beale Rosie Holotik, a pretty young nurse who informs Dr. Masters that Dr. Stephens had hired her a week ago. Dr. Masters begrudgingly allows her to settle in. The young nurse meets the patients, including a lobotomized and childish man named Sam Bill McGhee who enjoys popsicles and his plastic toy boat, a nymphomaniac and schizophrenic named Allyson Betty Chandler, an emotionally dependent woman named Jennifer Harryette Warren, an octogenarian woman named Mrs. Callingham Rhea MacAdams who spouts bizarre poetry and mistakes flowers in the garden to be her own children, a juvenile prankster named Danny Jessie Kirby, a shellshocked Sergeant Hugh Feagin who lost his mind after accidentally killing his men in Vietnam, and the crazed judge who seems incapable of speaking in anything other than courtroom jargon and the repeated phrase My name... is... Oliver... W... Cameron...Dr. Masters becomes disturbed when a telephone man comes to investigate the faulty phone system at the institution. Mrs. Callinghams tongue is ripped out of her mouth during her sleep, although Dr. Masters tells Charlotte that Mrs. Callingham did it to herself. The audience later discovers that Dr. Masters is actually a patient at the institute, and that Dr. Stephens had allowed her to pretend to be a doctor. Dr. Masters burns the Sergeants hand after he disobeys her, and murders Jennifer for stealing medicine. After a frantic conversation with Allyson, Charlotte discovers Dr. Masters secret. Mrs. Callingham indicates to Charlotte that it was Masters who cut out her tongue, apparently to prevent the elderly woman from disclosing the secret. Charlotte then discovers the body of the telephone man in the kitchen closet, presumably murdered by Masters to make sure he would not report the institutions location to anyone on the outside. Allyson is distraught, as she thought the man was going to marry h

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