Abandoned

Name: Abandoned
Genre: Horror
Released: June 17, 2022
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 38
Cast: Addy Miller, Christian Michael Pates, Emma Roberts, John Gallagher Jr., Justin Matthew Smith

2022

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Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: June 17, 2022 | PG-13

Starring: Addy Miller, Christian Michael Pates, Emma Roberts, John Gallagher Jr., Justin Matthew Smith, Kate Arrington, Marie May, Michael Shannon, Paul Dillon, Paul Schneider, Paxton Pope

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Digital/VOD release: June 24, 2022.

Summary: Sara (Emma Roberts), her husband Alex (John Gallagher Jr.), and their infant son move into a remote farmhouse, which harbors a dark, tragic history. As their home’s past is revealed, the mother’s fragility escalates to a state of psychosis that jeopardizes her own safety and that of her newborn son.

Director: Spencer Squire

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 102 min

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Rob Rector

Jun 23, 2022

Abandoned delivers tension with a more nuanced approach to a particularly emotionally vulnerable stage of life. Read full review

The Playlist Oliver Weir

Jun 15, 2022

Ultimately, neither Squire nor Roberts nor Gallagher Jr. really puts a foot wrong in this movie, but that’s chiefly because the whole thing is standing still. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Jun 15, 2022

This is a very slow-moving work that leans heavily on auditory scares rather than visual ones, the whole akin to sleep-deprivation torture. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Jun 15, 2022

A listless thriller that can’t find its footing, Abandoned does occasionally rouse itself enough to suggest a better movie that never comes to pass. Read full review

Alexander Harrison

Jun 17, 2022

Abandoned has a few things in its favor, but the disappointing conclusion obscures them while making the movie's flaws even more prominent, which ultimately makes it difficult to recommend. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Jun 17, 2022

Instead of ratcheting up tension, Squire seems content to sustain a minor-stakes atmosphere that, well, abandons his leading lady in a film that doesn’t do anything interesting with her predicament. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jun 16, 2022

The Erik Patterson and Jessica Scott script is laughably generic, and even the potentially alarming moments are given a cut-rate handling by director Spencer Squire, who hopefully resented the fact that the production didn’t even have money for spectral effects. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Apr 10, 2023

It's been a while since I've seen a film so lacking in suspense and fear, especially when it's advertised and sold as a story of both genres.

Yes there is also something in the plot about postpartum depression, but clearly this was intended just to be about a haunting and it failsIt's been a while since I've seen a film so lacking in suspense and fear, especially when it's advertised and sold as a story of both genres.

Yes there is also something in the plot about postpartum depression, but clearly this was intended just to be about a haunting and it fails miserably.

And what a bland actress Emma Roberts is. Almost 95% of her films are utterly meaningless, but I still don't understand how she lands so many leading roles.… Expand

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