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The Abandoned

  • 2006
  • R
  • 1h 39m
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
14K
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The Abandoned (2006)
HorrorMysteryThriller

An adopted woman returns to her home country and the family home that she never knew and must face the mystery that lies there.An adopted woman returns to her home country and the family home that she never knew and must face the mystery that lies there.An adopted woman returns to her home country and the family home that she never knew and must face the mystery that lies there.

  • Director
    • Nacho Cerdá
  • Writers
    • Karim Hussain
    • Nacho Cerdá
    • Richard Stanley
  • Stars
    • Anastasia Hille
    • Karel Roden
    • Valentin Goshev
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.5/10
    14K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Nacho Cerdá
    • Writers
      • Karim Hussain
      • Nacho Cerdá
      • Richard Stanley
    • Stars
      • Anastasia Hille
      • Karel Roden
      • Valentin Goshev
    • 162User reviews
    • 82Critic reviews
    • 42Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Anastasia Hille
    Anastasia Hille
    • Marie Jones
    Karel Roden
    Karel Roden
    • Nicolai
    Valentin Goshev
    • Patriarch - present day
    Valentin Ganev
    Valentin Ganev
    • Andrei Misharin…
    Paraskeva Djukelova
    Paraskeva Djukelova
    • Marie's Mother
    Carlos Reig-Plaza
    Carlos Reig-Plaza
    • Anatoliy
    Kalin Arsov
    Kalin Arsov
    • Bearded Russian Patriarch Man '1966'
    Svetlana Smoleva
    Svetlana Smoleva
    • Bearded Patriarch's wife '1966'
    Anna Panayotova
    • Bearded Patriarch's daughter '1966'
    Jordanka Angelova
    • Blind Woman 'present day'
    Jasmina Marinova
    • Patriarch's Wife
    Monica Baunova
    • Emily
    Marta Yaneva
    • Natalya
    • Director
      • Nacho Cerdá
    • Writers
      • Karim Hussain
      • Nacho Cerdá
      • Richard Stanley
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    5rivertam26

    horrorfest

    Make no mistake that unlike the previous film The Abandoned is polished, features stunning cinematography and a haunting score. What it doesn't have is any real entertainment value or true sense of logic. The film works best as horrifically beautiful sequences and hauntingly grotesque images. Some of which will be permanantly burned into your psyche. But Nacho Cerdas story of a young woman that returns to her native country to learn about her adopted parents and discovers horrifying truths just really isn't that involving. The film however does feature plenty of symbolism and subtext but feels like it goes on forever and doesn't feel as scary as it should've been. However, this is a respectable horror film the performances are soso and the pacing is off but the film looks gorgeous and works best as a piece of art. Certain scenes should be studied but as a whole just isn't completely successful. But the scenes that are effective and cringe worthy are disturbingly atmospheric and memorable, they just seem to drop the ball halfway through and keep teasing at some sort of payoff that never comes. Nonetheless the film makes for an interesting viewing.
    5claudio_carvalho

    Frightening and Creepy Film of Ghosts, with a Nightmarish Atmosphere but a Dull Story

    In 1966, somewhere in Russia, a wounded woman drives a truck to an isolated farm with two babies. Forty years later, the film producer Marie Jones (Anastasia Hille) leaves her daughter in California and travels back to her home land in the wilderness of Russia. Marie is one of the children and had received a phone call from the notary public Andrei Misharin (Valentin Ganev) that had told her where the farm of her family is. Marie arrives in the abandoned house and meets the stranger Nicolai (Karel Roden) that tells her that he had also received a call from Misharin and he is her twin brother. Weird things happen in the house and Marie and Nicolai are haunted by eerie ghosts of themselves. Further, they find that they are trapped in the house and can not leave the place.

    "The Abandoned" is a frightening and creepy film of ghosts, with a nightmarish atmosphere but a dull story. The unknown Anastasia Hille has great performance and the cinematography is very dark; but the story is very confused and predictable. Cristopher Smith used in "Triangle" (2009) a similar idea of people trapped in a location that can never leave the cycle. My vote is five.

    Title (Brazil): "Abandonados" ("Abandoned")

    Note: On 04 January 2021. I saw this film again.
    6tamannaearthman

    Jump Factor, you bet.

    This film is a solid 6, no it isn't going to win any awards or anything like that but what horror suspense film with 2 no name actors does anyway.. ever. What The Abandoned will do for you is keep you wondering what is down the hall or around the next corner. It is a suspense film, sprinkled in with some horror elements. I can't tell you how many times the audience jumped out of the room. It was great, the people were embarrassed for themselves because they got so scared. That to me is what going to these movies is all about, it is about the experience and the film and how it draws you in at 10:00 at night. I did think the movie had a lot of credits at the beginning, the writing caught me off guard, but I like how when the family was speaking Russian we didn't get subtitles, that was cool, we don't need to know every word these folks are saying, just know that something bad is about to go down and it did. Check out The Abandoned for a good time with friends, the movie is pretty solid in a day when a lot of these movies leave you wondering what you just wasted your darn money and time on, this one will keep you jumping and guessing the whole way through.
    amyisat

    What are we watching?

    Now I am not that old, early 30's but I have to say what is the movie crowd watching, I am afraid this film may fall in between the older group, older than me and the young crowd. It isn't Jack Ass and it is not Hills Have Eyes, The Abandoned is a well written and in my opinion an over all good suspense film that is getting over looked by the movie goer. I have seen the banners on the internet and some trailers but they don't even do this film justice. What I like is that it takes us on a journey to a part of the world where you know there was and is a lot of adoption abuse and other acts against humans going on and it tells a story of a home, a haunted past that won't rest until the family is all but gone. The spirits may be stuck in another place, who knows, the point is that the movie has a story, it has a life and I applaud the movie fan who like me can appreciate this, God I sound like my Mom, I give the movie a B and I encourage people not to over look this just because it doesn't have a flashy cast. Have fun, this movie will make you jump a few times and takes you on a few rides. I look forward to more films from Nacho Cerda, I will keep my ears open for his name in the future.
    7baserock_love

    This movie is criminally underrated. Yet far from perfect. Very much worth any horror movie fan's time!

    Reading over almost every single one star review on this, it would appear that every single person that ranked it as such cannot follow even a fairly simple plot as this (I see lots of "It makes no sense" and "Nothing is explained" comments.). Really sad to see good gems in the rough like this getting trashed by people that frankly shouldn't be reviewing movies, maybe I'm an elitist, I don't know, but I'm sorry, if you couldn't follow the story of The Abandoned, I really don't know what to say.

    This movie is kept from being a top tier creepy movie simply by pacing issues, that's probably my main problem with it which drags it's score into the 7 range (might as well be a 10 for the amount of drek horror made since the mid 90's). This movie has impeccable atmosphere, the kind you can cut through with a knife which is oh so important for any great haunted house film. The atmosphere itself was incredibly creepy, the director should have let the audience just stew in that a bit before getting right to the point so to speak within minutes of walking into the house, it really lessens the impact of the imagery and the antagonists in this movie, but doesn't destroy it by any means.

    What stood out the most to me is that it was a very original idea (as far as i know, I have never seen anything quite like it) and like The Baby's room, I love wildly original takes on my favorite horror genre, the haunted house movie. It's deliciously dark without relying on cheap gore, but if that's what you're looking for, there's some incredibly brutal and disturbing scenes in it. The story and acting and characters are good enough to be very compelling but at the same time, I think a little more character development couldn't have hurt. yet we have people screaming "TOO SLOW TOO BORING" and 1 starring it so this is why character development is sadly all but dead in horror movies.

    The imagery and photography was fantastic, sound appropriately creepy if severely overdone at times but only a few times.

    Just see it. Even if it doesn't scare you like it didn't scare me (i can count the movies on one hand that have achieved this, this is the holy grail of horror for me.), it's very creepy and quite unnerving and just an all around enjoyable flick. Definitely gets the thumbs up from me.

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    • Trivia
      Filmax wanted a name actress for the role of Marie and there were some executive negotiations with actresses like Nastassja Kinski and Holly Hunter. Director Nacho Cerdá insisted on an unknown because he wanted to bring more humanity to the character. Cerdà picked up Anastasia Hille after a casting session in London and Filmax finally went with the director's choice.
    • Goofs
      After the boat starts to float away, Marie has the gun with her, but the bag was left in the boat. As she's running through the woods, she's shown in various shots and angles, the gun is no longer with her.
    • Connections
      Features Faust (2000)
    • Soundtracks
      Chewing Wires
      Composed by David Kristian

      Performed by David Kristian

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    • Release date
      • February 23, 2007 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Spain
      • United Kingdom
      • Bulgaria
    • Languages
      • English
      • Russian
    • Also known as
      • Покинутий будинок
    • Filming locations
      • Sofia, Bulgaria
    • Production companies
      • Castelao Producciones
      • Filmax International
      • Filmstudio Bojana
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • €3,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,653,012
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $2,482,000
      • Nov 19, 2006
    • Gross worldwide
      • $4,529,892
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    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 39 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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