The Abandoned R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 19, 2007
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Valentin Ganev, Karel Roden, Annastasia Hille, Paraskeva Djukelova & Jordanka Angelove | |
Directed by | Nacho Cerda | |
Edited by | Jorge Macaya | |
Written by | Richard Stanley, Nacha Cerda & Karim Hussain | |
Director of Photography: | Xavi Giménez | |
Executive Production by | Carlos Fernandez & Julio Fernandez |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/5 --
And at the end of the equation, things just don't add up.
Filmcritic.com
Rating: B --
Director Nacho Cerdà succeeds in pushing the haunted-house movie into an abstract realm where the past and present fold into each other.
AV Club
Rating: D- --
The movie sinks so deep into deathly atmosphere that there's no life to it.
Full Review
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 1.5/5 --
Through the murk and gloom of The Abandoned; a mystery emerges: Why didn't this go straight to DVD?
New York Times
"This horror flick is atmospheric and often frightening, but the lack of a solid narrative creates a lethargic pace."
Full Review
Cinefantastique
Eerie frights here are more a matter of sheer dread-soaked atmosphere.
Variety
The relatively tame horrors on display here may disappoint fans of the director's gut-spelunking short Aftermath, which made him an underground hero on the abra-cadaver circuit.
Village Voice
Product Description:
The expertly crafted 2007 haunted-house movie THE ABANDONED puts an original sheen on the well-worn tradition of the haunted house flick. Shot in Bulgaria but set in Russia, the movie centers around Marie (Anastasia Hille), an American born in Russia and abandoned as an infant. Marie returns to Russia 40 years later to visit the family estate with her brother, Nicolai (Karl Roden), who was also abandoned, but raised in Russia. Together they explore the old homestead in the hopes of rediscovering their pasts and unearthing the truth about the family they never knew. Like any haunted-house movie worth its salt, THE ABANDONED is all about the psychic residue left in the house following a tragedy. In this case, the spirit of Marie and Karl's father has summoned them back to the family home in order to finish the foiled infanticide he was attempting decades ago.
The manifestations of the past--i.e. the things that go bump in the night--are terrifying. Director Nacho Cerda's cinematic "boo!s" come at the least expected moments and in unique forms, and his unflinching shots of Marie and Karl's decaying yet persistent doppelgangers offer some of the most chilling images in the movie. Ultimately, THE ABANDONED works because it takes viewer by surprise on so many levels. Thrills and chills abound, but they are delivered in unexpected ways. While the premise isn't entirely original and the script isn't completely free of holes, it is expertly made from a purely filmic standpoint, and there is something unavoidably chilling about the idea of never escaping one's past, particularly when the past is as horrific as the one depicted in THE ABANDONED.
The manifestations of the past--i.e. the things that go bump in the night--are terrifying. Director Nacho Cerda's cinematic "boo!s" come at the least expected moments and in unique forms, and his unflinching shots of Marie and Karl's decaying yet persistent doppelgangers offer some of the most chilling images in the movie. Ultimately, THE ABANDONED works because it takes viewer by surprise on so many levels. Thrills and chills abound, but they are delivered in unexpected ways. While the premise isn't entirely original and the script isn't completely free of holes, it is expertly made from a purely filmic standpoint, and there is something unavoidably chilling about the idea of never escaping one's past, particularly when the past is as horrific as the one depicted in THE ABANDONED.
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