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The Abandoned
2006
Horror
1h 39m
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 be her brother, a twin she never knew... (imdb)
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The Abandoned
2006
Horror
1h 39m
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Rated 13 Oct 2008
69
50th
Very brooding and has a very thick atomsphere. Best out of the 8 Films To Die For.
Rated 13 Oct 2008
Rated 25 Oct 2007
82
68th
The only worthwhile film in the train wreck that is the "8 Films 2 Die 4" series that was making its way around horror fests. Very atmospheric, foreboding, with unexpectedly solid acting. Doesn't spoon feed you or shower you with blood and gore, like most modern horror flicks.
Rated 25 Oct 2007
Rated 23 Sep 2018
50
8th
Top badass moment? Yes, good idea, let’s all get out of the nice, safe truck and go for a walk in the creepy forest at night on our own with just a torch; and then go in the spooky house we come across. No, actually let’s not; it’s stupid, bad and behaving like an ass. Still, along with the rest of this film it helped me complete almost an entire horror clichés bingo card. The movie had some good ideas too, but somehow it just doesn't quite work. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.
Rated 23 Sep 2018
Rated 25 Jan 2012
60
39th
Creepy and weird. That's the most reserved Nacho Cerda's ever been!
Rated 25 Jan 2012
Rated 30 Aug 2024
54
17th
There's some interesting things here, but the story and the logic of what happens don't mesh well enough, which ultimately adds up to an underwhelming haunted house movie.
Rated 30 Aug 2024
Rated 15 Feb 2012
24
25th
Lives up to its name in that it employs numerous tired and, for the most part, "abandoned" scare techniques to get a jump out of the audience. Your Honor, may I submit into evidence the following: sudden slamming of doors, sharp bursts of screechy violins, shots from behind characters, crying babies, hiding in closets, shaky camera, fleeing through woods, cloudy-eyed crones, flashlights as main source of lighting, decapitated doll head floating in lake...okay, that last one was pretty awesome.
Rated 15 Feb 2012
Rated 11 Sep 2010
60
35th
Kudos for the damn creepy atmosphere, but I felt the movie could have just relied on the more subtle means of scaring the audience and still remained interesting instead of making you go all WTF.
Rated 11 Sep 2010
Rated 14 Jul 2008
87
93rd
Extremely successful inner horror flick. Catches nicely duality of dobbelgänger: good/bad, man/woman, boy/girl, adult/child, Western/Eastern, mother/child, reality/fantasy, living/dead, past/now. Dualism is running through out the story. Circle is unbroken. Good atmosphere, well acted. In the end you want to rerun the beginning again. In this film the horror lives inside of you.
Rated 14 Jul 2008
Rated 18 Feb 2009
35
65th
"...to put it simply, a totally kick-ass horror movie that should be seen by every self-respecting fear film fan."
Rated 18 Feb 2009
Rated 28 May 2014
43
20th
God, it was just so terrible to follow? Half of it was in Russian, and the plot itself was disappointing, not to mention the characters.
Rated 28 May 2014
Rated 10 Feb 2008
70
46th
great stuff
Rated 10 Feb 2008
Rated 26 Oct 2012
70
56th
* Casting, Acting : 7
* Script : 8
* Directing, Aura : 7
* Ease of Viewing : 6
* Naked Eye : 7
Rated 26 Oct 2012
Rated 17 May 2008
85
89th
A horror mind-fuck that isn't hard to follow, it's just damned scary.
Rated 17 May 2008
Rated 21 Feb 2011
50
12th
lanet, gecmisin pesini birakmamasi, lanetli ev, psikopat baba, ölen anne, ailenin izini sürmek, rusya, ada, issiz ada, ciftlik, orman (ailesinin izini arayan iki kardes rusyanin issiz ormalarinin arasinda ki adada yer alan malikaneye giderler. kendi hayaletlerini görürler ve her sey 40 yil önceki haline döner. karisik bir film)
Rated 21 Feb 2011
Rated 23 Sep 2012
33
22nd
failed to draw me in or make me care about what was going on...not much worse than a boring horror flick
Rated 23 Sep 2012
Rated 28 Apr 2009
88
81st
Incredible atmosphere and sound-design which (at least for me) excuses the weak story Play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. if you like this movie
Rated 28 Apr 2009
Rated 15 Dec 2008
73
68th
I was too busy cradling my girlfriend to remember if this movie was scary or not.
Rated 15 Dec 2008
Rated 31 Mar 2009
40
68th
"A haunted house movie par excellence."
Rated 31 Mar 2009
Rated 11 Jun 2009
65
72nd
The encroachment of a death you know will happen, and will occur in a horrific fashion, is some freaky stuff.
Rated 11 Jun 2009
Rated 17 Dec 2010
58
5th
Looks like a horror movie, sounds like a horror movie, but there's no suspense, tension, horror, gore or shocks anywhere to be found. Please, Nacho Cerda, give us a reason to root for your heroine before sending her into the darkness. Also, I've seen paranormal but this is just paranonsensical. 94% style and 6% substance.
Rated 17 Dec 2010
Rated 20 May 2009
20
6th
Cheesy and unintentionally laughable, and what the beep is up with the ending?
Rated 20 May 2009
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