Fresh
Director Nacho Cerda succeeds in pushing the haunted-house movie into an abstract realm where the past and present fold into each other.
Scott Tobias, AV Club
The Abandoned
Death never runs out of time.
2006 · 1h 39m · R
Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Nacho Cerdá
Overview
Marie, a film producer, returns to her native Russia to find her birth parents. She quickly learns they are dead, and she has inherited their long-empty farmhouse. At the farm, she meets Nicolai, who claims to be her twin brother. Events take a terrifying turn when the two spot a pair of ghastly doppelgangers and the house itself seems to propel them toward a fate they should have met 40 years earlier.
Director and cast
- Nacho Cerdá Director
- Anastasia Hille as Marie Jones
- Karel Roden as Nicolai
- Valentin Ganev as Andrei Misharin / Kolya Kaidavosky
- Paraskeva Djukelova as Marie's Mother
- Carlos Reig-Plaza as Anatoliy
- Marta Yaneva as Natalya
- Jasmina Marinova as Patriarch's Wife
- Svetlana Smoleva as Bearded Patriarch's wife '1966'
- Anna Panayotova as Bearded Patriarch's daughter '1966'
- Monica Baunova as Emily
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
38%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The movie sinks so deep into deathly atmosphere that there's no life to it.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
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.
Jim Ridley, Village Voice
Rotten
Perhaps the worst offense of The Abandoned, however, is that so little effort is made by the screenwriters to make any 'sense' of it all.
Erin Meister, Boston Globe
Rotten
Through the murk and gloom of The Abandoned; a mystery emerges: Why didn't this go straight to DVD?
A.O. Scott, New York Times
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