Marie, a film producer, returns to her native Russia to find her birth parents. She quickly learns they are dead, and she has inherited their long-empty farmhouse. At the farm, she meets Nicolai, who claims to be her twin brother. Events take a terrifying turn when the two spot a pair of ghastly doppelgangers and the house itself seems to propel them toward a fate they should have met 40 years earlier.
Marie Jones
Nicolai
Andrei Misharin / Kolya Kaidavosky
Marie's Mother
Anatoliy
Natalya
Patriarch's Wife
Bearded Patriarch's wife '1966'
Bearded Patriarch's daughter '1966'
I am honestly surprised that this film got such a high rating on this site and many other sites, for that matter. It seems like I may be one of the few who didn't like it and even though "The Abandoned" is a watchable horror/drama flick that can be mostly appreciated for the nice imagery, I mostly found it redundant and tedious. To me, it was like an hour and a half of pointless sequences and bogus scares and while I do appreciate creative and artistic dark imagery, it can become ineffective when the story is not held properly. I mean, directors like Dario Argento can get away with plain stori...
Status Released
Original LanguageEnglish
Budget$3,000,000.00
Revenue $4,529,892.00