The Forgotten is a 1973 American horror film directed by S. F. Brownrigg in his directorial debut, written by Tim Pope, and starring Bill McGhee, Rosie Holotik, and Annabelle Weenick (credited as Anne MacAdams). Its plot focuses on a young nurse, Charlotte Beale, who takes a job at a rural sanitarium plagued by a series of mysterious murders.

Plot

Stephens Sanitarium is a secluded rural mental health institute whose chief doctor, Dr. Stephens, believes that the best way to cure insanity is to allow the patients to act out their realities freely. After a patient threatens her life, an elderly nurse decides to retire. Meanwhile, in the process of therapy (chopping wood with an axe), Oliver W. Cameron, the crazed former magistrate known as Judge, lands the axe into Stephens's back, apparently killing him. The nurse finishes packing and is attacked by Harriett, a patient who accuses her of stealing her "baby" (a plastic doll). The patient kills her by crushing her head in the nurse's suitcase.