foutainoflife Well, it is undoubtedly a creepy film. There were a couple jump scares but for the most part it is a slow burner. I am more of a slow burn person anyway. I think movies like that can really get into your psyche and stay with you long after the film is over. Torture porn is just cheap and forgettable.What I liked...I liked that this was set in Russia. I think that gave it a cold atmospherical tone and also allowed us viewers to connect with her sense of uncertainty. Different language and lifestyles really takes you out of your element and that can be frightening in itself.I also liked the house. It was beautifully creepy and I also liked that it was being narrated by her daughter.I liked that the brother ended up being seduced into his death by a naked girl!! Guys y'all are so gullible. Everything else was just sorta, meh, to me.What I didn't like ...I didn't care for being haunted by your future ghost. That seemed a bit confusing to me. I didn't like that we didn't learn more about the heroic actions of their mother.It wasn't bad but it's not the best. It's good for a rainy day.

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.

atinder I really like this movie much better than I expected, I really like the start of the movie , the opening scene was very good.The first 20 minutes of the movie are quite slow, not boring at all, then the movie picks ups a lot of stuff happened for the rest of the movie,.I don't think this movie was scary or even that creepy however this movie did want to confuse you as it messing with your head.I like how the movie came to an end and I got the acting was really good.I am going to give this movie a 7/10

Claudio Carvalho 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")