Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Nigel P Or, perhaps another title for this could have been 'The Perils of Marie Jones'. Anastasia Hille plays Jones, who inherits the haunted-est haunted house you ever saw. Director and co-writer Nacho Cerda is as persuasive as he can be in convincing us as to the sinister aspects of this house, which has a kind of sentience. And through its dusty, slimy corridors and broken windows and floorboards Marie travels, occasionally coming across blank-eyed wraiths.I can only think of 2014 film 'Across the River' that creates and spins such a deliciously sinister web of shabby, grotesque dilapidation - a study of decay. Here, the story-line is secondary to mood, with vague suppositions from Marie's twin Nicolai (Karel Roden) about the building recreating doppelgangers to recreate scenes of murder the house has previously borne witness to. This is suggested in the film's opening scene involving two abandoned babies found by a Russian peasant family.Perhaps it is best not to think too much about any structured storyline, but sit back and drink in the atmosphere, the sparse landscape, the vast open spaces drenched in moistened fog, the cadaverous spectres, the possessive nature of the building ... and other such delights. There is a very satisfying moment towards the end in which a seemingly irrelevant collision brings things full circle.Welcome to the family.

Fella_shibby I liked the story, the acting, the soundtrack (which is also very dark and mysterious, and it is great providing suspense to the film), but what I appreciated the most was the production, the dark ambiences, the surrealism, which turns this movie into one very obscure, weird n creepy flick. Another good thing was the house; it was very scary. I like how it was sort of alive, and in control. It's a very dark movie with shady and mysterious ambiences. The cinematography is excellent with a fantastic camera work (great camera shots and plans) and surreal imagery. The settings are also great, especially those beautiful landscapes. The plot is complex and non-linear, because it seems it goes in a kind of a looping form… Nacho Cerda manages to make an isolated farmhouse and forest incredibly creepy.The film is definitely one of the best technically executed horror films that I have seen in a long time with top notch sound design. Some of the locations were really isolated n beautiful.

grm009 The opening credits written in a hokey font that uses the Russian letter "Я" as an "R" was indicative of the mediocre production values that would become apparent. Also, the entire premise of the movie-that the main character needs to travel to Russia and attend to the farm she inherited shows an startling ignorance of modern Russian history. No one inherits real property in Russia! All land and houses were owned by the state during Communism, and after the fall of Communism, property was not given to anyone. (Yes, there are some cases of property being privatized now, but not inherited.) Also, anyone who is familiar with Russia will be struck by the absence of birch trees in the forest scenes. But these are minor flaws, and could be overlooked, except for the rest of the movie.The story starts out well enough with a Russian-born woman traveling from the US to Russia to look into her "property", but more, to look into her origins. The story grows darker, and the suspense is really well done, with very well-crafted frightening scenes. But, about a third of the way into the movie, the strange becomes outlandish, and the outlandish becomes idiotic. This could have been a great thriller, but it descends into an absurd horror movie. There are scenes that are truly unwatchable and I wonder about the humanity of the person who conceived them. Scary, yes, well-acted, yes, intelligent, no. It's as subtle as a sledge-hammer.

baserock_love 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.