The Abandoned
After Dark Films | Release Date: February 23, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
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Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
1
Negative:
4
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75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
By the film's downbeat climax, Cerda's dread of death and uncertainty about digging too deeply into what's better left buried have become palpable, and The Abandoned lingers beneath the skin as any decent horror movie should. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
The Abandoned is a rare horror film that moves from the real world into a kind of psychic space, and slowly suffocates its characters inside their own heads. Read full review
70
VarietyDennis Harvey
Minimally plotted but beautifully atmospheric nightmare. Read full review
40
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
After a while, Mr. Cerdà exhausts his repertory of spooky effects -- too many dark hallways and illogical, foreboding point-of-view shots -- and you begin to hunger for exposition, always a bad sign in a horror film. Even worse is that, by the time the explanations arrive, you no longer care. Read full review
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L.A. WeeklyJim Ridley
Cerda's striking creep-show atmospherics, desaturated palette and off-kilter editing rhythms are a style in search of a movie: The muddled "Twilight Zone" payoff here is hardly enough to justify a sluggish two-character round-robin of "Don't look in the basement!" The last thing a filmmaker named Nacho needs is more cheese. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
It's no "Dellamorte Dellamore," but neither is it "Uwe Boll," a smallish favor we should all be thankful for. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeErin Meister
With a "Lost"-meets-"The Haunting" plot and a handful of convoluted thematic twists involving family, history, murder, and death, The Abandoned limps into a nebulous kind of horror netherworld, peppered with painfully long tension-building sequences and unimaginative dialogue. Read full review
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Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The gimmick in The Abandoned is that people battle their zombie doubles, whom they can't kill, since they'd be killing themselves. But the movie sinks so deep into deathly atmosphere that there's no life to it. Read full review
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