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  • 2007
  • R
  • After Dark Films
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • After Dark Films
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary An American woman searching for her birth parents learns she has inherited a house in the middle of a forest in a remote area of Russia. It is the house where she was born. Abandoned and uninhabited for 40 years, it stands in total disrepair and neglect. What she finds is more than an old house. She meets a mysterious man who claims to b...

Directed By: Nacho Cerdá

Written By: Karim Hussain, Richard Stanley, Nacho Cerdá

  • 2007
  • R
  • After Dark Films
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • After Dark Films
  • 1 h 39 m

The Abandoned

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
42
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary An American woman searching for her birth parents learns she has inherited a house in the middle of a forest in a remote area of Russia. It is the house where she was born. Abandoned and uninhabited for 40 years, it stands in total disrepair and neglect. What she finds is more than an old house. She meets a mysterious man who claims to b...

Directed By: Nacho Cerdá

Written By: Karim Hussain, Richard Stanley, Nacho Cerdá

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
42
38% Positive
3 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
50% Negative
4 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
42
38% Positive
3 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
50% Negative
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75
The Abandoned is a rare horror film that moves from the real world into a kind of psychic space, and slowly suffocates its characters inside their own heads.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
75
By the film's downbeat climax, Cerda's dread of death and uncertainty about digging too deeply into what's better left buried have become palpable, and The Abandoned lingers beneath the skin as any decent horror movie should.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
70
Minimally plotted but beautifully atmospheric nightmare.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
30
It's no "Dellamorte Dellamore," but neither is it "Uwe Boll," a smallish favor we should all be thankful for.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW
30
Cerda's striking creep-show atmospherics, desaturated palette and off-kilter editing rhythms are a style in search of a movie: The muddled "Twilight Zone" payoff here is hardly enough to justify a sluggish two-character round-robin of "Don't look in the basement!" The last thing a filmmaker named Nacho needs is more cheese.
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25
With a "Lost"-meets-"The Haunting" plot and a handful of convoluted thematic twists involving family, history, murder, and death, The Abandoned limps into a nebulous kind of horror netherworld, peppered with painfully long tension-building sequences and unimaginative dialogue.
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The gimmick in The Abandoned is that people battle their zombie doubles, whom they can't kill, since they'd be killing themselves. But the movie sinks so deep into deathly atmosphere that there's no life to it.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW

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6.0
36% Positive
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27% Negative
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27% Negative
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Production Company Castelao Producciones, Filmax International, Filmstudio Bojana, Future Films, Radiovision
Release Date Feb 23, 2007
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Death never runs out of time.
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Awards

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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