Abandoned Dead (2015)

A security guard, trapped in a run-down inner-city medical clinic, is terrorized by supernatural forces which threaten to overtake her.

Director:

Mark W. Curran

Writer:

Mark W. Curran

Stars:

Ivan Adame, Hannah Johnson, Sarah Nicklin

Cast

Credited cast:
Ivan Adame	...	Stranger in Street
Hannah Johnson	...	Young Rachel Burke
Sarah Nicklin	...	Rachel Burke
Judith O'Dea	...	Doctor Pamela Myers
Christopher Parker	...	Hank Simms
Carlos Ramirez	...	Detective Phillip Haggis
Stacy Snyder	...	Anna Logan
Jackson Stafford	...	Pizza Boy
Robert E. Wilhelm	...	Doctor Thaddeus Mayfield

Storyline

Rachel, a security guard who harbors a fear of the dark, is sent on assignment to secure an abandoned medical rehab clinic. It's a place with a supernatural history, where people have mysteriously disappeared. Alone and afraid, Rachel is tormented throughout the night by paranormal terrors, as she discovers the dead who reside here may be connected to buried secrets from her past.

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Plot Keywords:

rehab clinic | security guard | assignment | lygophobia | scotophobia | 

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Taglines:

Sometimes the dead come back.

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Genres:

Crime | Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 November 2015 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Artesia, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Nightwatcher Films, Pacific World Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

77 min 85 min (DVD)

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Not a 9 or 10, nor a 1 or 2; on an indie scale, it is overall a solid 7.

The flaws in this indie film are too obvious to belabor. Suffice to say that you should not expect to witness anything approaching Oscar winning or nominated acting, writing, directing, etc. But this, with rare exceptions, is what one should expect in what is obviously a low- budget production. It comes with the territory. So, if your central purpose in watching an indie film is to indulge a desire to carp and criticize, you easily will find faults in this film. However, if you are among those who subscribe to the standard of criticism enunciated long ago by none other than the undying Master of the Macabre, Edgar Allen Poe, you may discover redeeming signs of life in Abandoned Dead, which while not on the sublimely sinister level of any of Poe's classic creations, is in a consanguineous vein. The Procrustean 1,000 word limit for this present review precludes anything but a rough paraphrase of Poe's dictum: A creation should be judged on whether the creator accomplished what he set out to create. Judged by this standard, the film leaves a favorably impression of what Mark Curran, who happens to have produced a one-man "Poe" show presently on stage, while doing this other one man show as Producer/Writer/Director of Abandoned Dead, managed to squeeze out of a tight indie budget. His promising script explores dark, twisted psychological mine-shafts, and he wastes no precious production money on the gratuitous goo and gore that spray the sets of cheap thrillers. That he managed to cast (sans the services of a casting director) a few quite capable actors among the miscast misfits that somehow manage to make unseemly appearances in practically every indie film, is itself remarkable. Any indie film lover who has been thinking of having a go at production should first have a word with Mark Curran, who evidently knows how to do a lot with a little. In sum, while this film is by no stretch a nine or ten as some apparent partisans proclaim, neither is it a one or two as some slag-slingers say. All things considered in the indie genre, it is a solid six or even a seven.