The Abandoned

Very brooding and has a very thick atomsphere. Best out of the 8 Films To Die For.

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.

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.

Creepy and weird. That's the most reserved Nacho Cerda's ever been!

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.

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.

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.

Nice

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.

"...to put it simply, a totally kick-ass horror movie that should be seen by every self-respecting fear film fan."

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.

great stuff

* Casting, Acting : 7 * Script : 8 * Directing, Aura : 7 * Ease of Viewing : 6 * Naked Eye : 7

A horror mind-fuck that isn't hard to follow, it's just damned scary.

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)

failed to draw me in or make me care about what was going on...not much worse than a boring horror flick

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

I was too busy cradling my girlfriend to remember if this movie was scary or not.

"A haunted house movie par excellence."

The encroachment of a death you know will happen, and will occur in a horrific fashion, is some freaky stuff.

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.

Cheesy and unintentionally laughable, and what the beep is up with the ending?

To quote the film, "It's better not to know. Better still to forget. Best of all to be abandoned." Oh, the irony.