The Abandoned

Name: The Abandoned
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: January 8, 2016
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 38

2016

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IFC Films | Release Date: January 8, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: Desperate to get her life back on track, the unstable Streak (Louisa Krause) takes a job as a security guard, working the graveyard shift at a once upscale, now abandoned apartment complex. But on her first night on duty, she discovers a horrifying presence lurking deep within the bowels of the decaying building. With her nerves already onDesperate to get her life back on track, the unstable Streak (Louisa Krause) takes a job as a security guard, working the graveyard shift at a once upscale, now abandoned apartment complex. But on her first night on duty, she discovers a horrifying presence lurking deep within the bowels of the decaying building. With her nerves already on edge, Streak must confront demons both real and imagined as she struggles to keep a grip on her sanity. [IFC Films]… Expand

Director: Eytan Rockaway

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 min

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Bobby LePire

Oct 18, 2021

It is an anxiety-inducing production that is bolstered by the astounding performances of Patric and Krause. While the ending is weak, two-thirds of the film works so wonderfully it is still worth watching. Read full review

Maitland McDonagh

Oct 18, 2021

First-time feature director Eytan Rockaway (also producer and co-author, with screenwriter Ido Funk, of the film's story) does a commendable job of ratcheting up the scary atmosphere and images. Read full review

Tirdad Derakhshani

Jan 26, 2016

Despite its formulaic structure, The Abandoned has a lot going for it. It eschews cheap scares, bloodletting, and gore. Instead, it works the audience with good, old-fashioned suspense. And it has heart. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jan 7, 2016

The Abandoned leaves us in the lurch, wondering at the nonsensical ending exactly what we wondered at the beginning. Jason Patric — Jason PATRIC? Man, what happened? Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Jan 23, 2016

Streak and Cooper are meagerly drawn characters, first-draft dialogue abounds, and the story proves more tedious and head-scratching as it goes. Read full review

Nick Schager

Jan 7, 2016

Despite the capable presence of Jason Patric in a thanklessly one-note role, this generic chiller clings so tightly to conventions that it fails to even moderately raise one’s pulse Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Jan 8, 2016

All goodwill from that first hour is dead and buried by the last scene, abandoned by a screenwriter and director who had no idea where to take this story. Read full review

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rahrizvi

Jun 24, 2016

This is an horror film. The film really manged to scare anyone without the gore & blood, and delivered twists and visual metaphors that i personally appreciated and found very original. I can see this becoming a cult classic.

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ebrahimufc

Jun 24, 2016

amazing ..............................................................................................................................................

3 of 4 users found this helpful31

Dave34

Jul 13, 2016

Its a art house horror film, not a regular genre film. Creepy and scary.
The music and cinematography were excellent and so was the pacing. Personally, I thought Jason Patric delivered one of his best performances.

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martinwolf

Jul 17, 2016

Really good atmospheric horror film with a great twist ending. The ambience in the movie is authentic and it gave me some decent scares. Acting was good, but I must mention a great performance by Louisa Krause, who was relatively unknown to me. I highly recommend this film to the audienceReally good atmospheric horror film with a great twist ending. The ambience in the movie is authentic and it gave me some decent scares. Acting was good, but I must mention a great performance by Louisa Krause, who was relatively unknown to me. I highly recommend this film to the audience who knows to appreciate the horror and mystery genre… Expand

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quincytheodore

Jan 18, 2016

Abandon hope for originality, all ye who enter.

There's no delicate way to say this, Abandoned is a husk made by imitating other horror movies, especially those with isolation theme, even down to the almost exact screenplay. Scene by scene comparison could be made to Keifer Sutherland'sAbandon hope for originality, all ye who enter.

There's no delicate way to say this, Abandoned is a husk made by imitating other horror movies, especially those with isolation theme, even down to the almost exact screenplay. Scene by scene comparison could be made to Keifer Sutherland's Mirrors to the most recent Last Shift. It matters not the level of sophistication replicated, it eventually comes down to silly characters running through plainly made corridors.

A troubled young girl has taken a job on secluded building as security. Right from the bat it follows so many conventional examples without adding anything. It uses backdrop of a psychological disease, the call from parent, the banter with rude co-worker. It creates a question of why such large building has only two people as security and these are not the most capable ones either, although this is an uninspiring effect of the dubious story, not intentionally done to set up mystery.

It doesn't create any engaging atmosphere as the few on-screen characters are highly unlikable despite the potential of the cryptic setting. They banter with mundane dialogues, almost equivalent to internet squabble. Their disabilities are merely there to enact stupid stereotypical jump scare moments. There's not much logic or structure to be had here, and it's even worse later on when the movie takes a dive with scrambled plot.

It also fails on producing any sense of dread. The beautiful setting promises a good clear environment for terror, yet it repeatedly shows only barren hallways. It's no understatement that it's one hour worth of plain tour of corridors with some possible haunted rooms in between. The progression is far too predictable, introducing vague entity as the characters are lost or confused if it's their minds playing trick at them.

The Abandoned is sloppy attempt at recreating horror from isolation premise, it starts poorly and ends with an implosion on itself as though the production value just abandoned any sense of coherency then pasted scenes from other movies.… Expand

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dajhorn

Apr 8, 2018

The Abandoned has nothing original in it, but I still need to write 75 characters.

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virginiaproud

Aug 30, 2016

The horror genre relies on characters with everything to lose making stupid choices. A locked door with instructions not to enter can only be an invitation to go straight down to that dark basement (alone) to take a look-see. But this one is absolutely stuffed full of genre cliches, cameraThe horror genre relies on characters with everything to lose making stupid choices. A locked door with instructions not to enter can only be an invitation to go straight down to that dark basement (alone) to take a look-see. But this one is absolutely stuffed full of genre cliches, camera angles, lighting, one note characters and a twist that managed to be somewhat predictable yet also totally ridiculous at the same time. Clearly the writer just gave up on plot. Bottom line, there's only so much wandering around in the dark looking scared and whispering "who's there" I can take, before I begin to fast forward. But to end on a positive note... an extremely short running time. Especially if you fast forward.… Expand

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