On his first official day of retirement, Detective Shaw (Josh Duhamel) is called back to the precinct when a blood-drenched teenager named AJ (Dylan Sprouse) surrenders with a chilling ultimatum: he has buried Shaw's teenage son alive. Plunged into a living nightmare, Shaw is forced to revisit a trail of grisly homicides as the oxygen in his son's remote grave runs out. In a pulse-pounding race against the clock, Shaw must navigate a precinct on the brink of mutiny and a suspect who thrives on psychological warfare, as his investigation unearths a devastating truth: Shaw wasn't chosen at random. — Inaugural Entertainment
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Fun Facts
Principal photography took place entirely in Clinton, Mississippi, and wrapped in a remarkably tight 12-day shoot in December 2024.
Co-writer Adam G. Levine penned the first draft back in 2021 while studying at Toronto Film School, then spent the next three years developing it with director David Lipper before it went into production.
he film features both Jeremy London (Mallrats) and Jason London (Dazed and Confused) in the cast — a rare big-screen appearance together for the real-life acting brothers.
The film debuted at the 2025 Newport Beach Film Festival under the title The Neglected, but was later shortened to simply Neglected when Inaugural Entertainment acquired North American distribution rights ahead of its May 2026 theatrical rollout.