Movie Review for Abandoned, The

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 be her brother, a twin she never knew. Together they find the house holds secrets to a past they don't remember. Together they are forced to relive a series of horrifying events and shocking murders that occurred just after they were born, in the place they were supposed to die.

                         Reviews of Abandoned, The
By Erin Meister of Boston Globe (7/0)
            Perhaps the worst offense of The Abandoned, however, is that so little effort is made by the scre...

By Scott Weinberg of Cinematical (7/0)
            This is coming from a guy who really enjoys a "slow burn" ghost story: The Abandoned is a grade-A...

By Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
            Cerdà quickly lets slip his woeful lack of skill with a curious, "arty" predilection for switchin...

By Garth Franklin of Dark Horizons (7/0)
            Despite some effective atmosphere at times, this multi-European produced supernatural thriller is...

By Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
            ...the movie sinks so deep into deathly atmosphere that there's no life to it.

By Blake French of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            If The Abandoned's answers were as complex and rewarding as its questions and calculations, i...

                         Reviews of Abandoned, The
By Blake French of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            the movie equivalent of a rookie algebra error

By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            Aside from a severely sagging midsection, the horror and suspense aspects are far from, er, aband...

By Mark Dujsik of Mark Reviews Movies (7/0)
            As the heroine wanders around her old, rundown childhood home, the movie itself wanders, trying t...

By Ken Hanke of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (7/0)
            At its best, it's an effective shocker with an atmosphere that seeps into your very bones. The pr...

By Frank Ochieng of Movie Eye (7/0)
            Alas, this is another faceless frightfest in which its so-called boisterous boo is not conducive ...

By A. O. Scott of New York Times (6/1)
            ...why didn¿t this go straight to DVD?

                         Reviews of Abandoned, The
By Brian Orndorf of OhmyNews.com (7/0)
            Abandoned is grim, incoherent, and about as thrilling as a college lecture.

By Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
            Abandon all hope of entertainment, ye who enter here...dreary as well as dull.

By Scott Tobias of Onion AV Club (7/0)
            Director Nacho Cerdà succeeds in pushing the haunted-house movie into an abstract realm where the...

By Linda Cook of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (7/0)
            A sort of haunted house story, "The Abandoned" has scary atmosphere, decent acting, an interestin...

By David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews (7/0)
            An admittedly stylish piece of work that's ultimately undone by an overly deliberate pace and inc...

By Jim Hemphill of Reel.com (7/0)
            [Director Nacho] Cerdà's craftsmanship and his overall sense of seriousness keep The Abandoned fr...

                         Reviews of Abandoned, The
By Jim Lane of Sacramento News & Review (7/0)
            ...inert and inept...

By Ken Fox of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
            By the film's downbeat climax, Cerda's dread of death and uncertainty about digging too deeply in...

By Brian Tallerico of UGO (7/0)
            Heralds the arrival of a new talent that every horror fan should keep their eyes on, if they're n...

By Dennis Harvey of Variety (7/0)
            Eerie frights here are more a matter of sheer dread-soaked atmosphere.

By Jim Ridley of Village Voice (7/0)
            The relatively tame horrors on display here may disappoint fans of the director's gut-spelunking ...

By A. O. Scott of New York Times (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
            Through the murk and gloom of The Abandoned; a mystery emerges: Why didn't this go straight to DV...

                         Reviews of Abandoned, The
By Jay Antani of Boxoffice Magazine (3/4) No reference
            If only [Cerda's] storytelling and filmmaking techniques were on par with his compelling subject ...

Movie Distributors
After Dark Films
Lionsgate

Production Companies
Radiovision Plus Ltd.
Castelao Productions
Future Film Group

Movie Studios