Slow, moody haunted-house shocker; not for kids.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 2, 2010

And at the end of the equation, things just don't add up.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 2, 2009

"This horror flick is atmospheric and often frightening, but the lack of a solid narrative creates a lethargic pace."

| Mar 9, 2009

It is, to put it simply, a totally kick-ass horror movie that should be seen by every self-respecting fear film fan.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 17, 2008

The work of a master visualist trying to walk the line between narrative and visual spectacle. The story is there, but it just sits on the side of the visual experience.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 2, 2008

A definite fascinating and creepy mystery that leads up to a very surreal finale I enjoyed...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 11, 2007

A weird and wicked tale further emphasizing that you can never go home again, especially if you never lived at home in the first place

| Original Score: B- | Jun 21, 2007

Despite some effective atmosphere at times, this multi-European produced supernatural thriller is a tedious snoozer

| Apr 24, 2007

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 10, 2007

A sort of haunted house story, "The Abandoned" has scary atmosphere, decent acting, an interesting setting %u2013 everything but a coherent story line.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 9, 2007

Cerd quickly lets slip his woeful lack of skill with a curious, "arty" predilection for switching camera focus in the middle of a shot.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 2, 2007

...inert and inept...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 2, 2007

Director Nacho Cerd succeeds in pushing the haunted-house movie into an abstract realm where the past and present fold into each other.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 28, 2007

The movie sinks so deep into deathly atmosphere that there's no life to it.

| Original Score: D- | Feb 28, 2007

At its best, it's an effective shocker with an atmosphere that seeps into your very bones. The problem is it's not always at its best, and when it isn't, it really isn't.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 28, 2007

Heralds the arrival of a new talent that every horror fan should keep their eyes on, if they're not covering them with their hands.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2007

The relatively tame horrors on display here may disappoint fans of the director's gut-spelunking short Aftermath, which made him an underground hero on the abra-cadaver circuit.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2007

As the heroine wanders around her old, rundown childhood home, the movie itself wanders, trying to find its purpose, meaning, and even, it seems, a worthwhile starting point.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 26, 2007

Perhaps the worst offense of The Abandoned, however, is that so little effort is made by the screenwriters to make any 'sense' of it all.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 26, 2007

Through the murk and gloom of The Abandoned; a mystery emerges: Why didn't this go straight to DVD?

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 26, 2007