Jun 28 2009
AFTER DARK HORROR FEST: THE ABANDONED
Kind of like a foreign flick.
PLOT
The movie opens with a scene showing a man driving a dead woman and two screaming babies to a house in the middle of nowhere. It then jumps to Marie, a woman who was tracked down by a notary. He tells her that her deceased parents left her their farm in Russia and she needs to go back to claim it, but it’s all news to her since she was adopted and could never find out about her birth parents. She decides to head to Russia where she meets Nikolai at her parents house who turns out to be her twin brother. As the two of them get drawn into the house, they realize that the night their mother died keeps replaying itself and they’re about to discover exactly what really happened.
TRIVIA
Part of the 2006 After Dark Horror Fest.
THOUGHTS
I don’t want to spoil the movie for anyone, but the ending of this really irritates me. It basically has a daughter saying she didn’t care what happened and that she’d never try to discover the truth. Gee, what a way to watch out for your parents! The Abandoned is an okay movie, but I have to admit that I barely remembered anything about it when I watched it recently. I remembered that the woman was heading back to Russia and she’d find her brother, but that was it. I wish I could pick out one really good thing from the movie, but it was really only just okay.
