Monday, July 26, 2021

 'The Abandoned' (2006) - Nacho Cerdà.

'The Abandoned' is a conspicuously gloomy marrow-chiller by noted Spanish splatter mad hatter Nacho 'Aftermath' Cerdà who now aims his delectably skewed view upon the more conventional supernatural tropes of one especially desolated haunted house, and with its exquisite lighting flourishes, creepy, diabolically dilapidated set design, and zestfully committed performances by the terrorized siblings Marie (Anastasia Hille) and estranged brother Nicolai (Karel Roden) whose long, desperate search for any additional information concerning their birth mother's inexplicably brutal slaying augers an altogether gut-knotting, reality-twisting terror trip deep into the labyrinthine murder house's increasingly disturbing mysteries that grimly suggests the terrible secret of their uncommonly grisly family history is, perhaps, destined to repeat itself! While 'The Abandoned' is far from a unique affair, the pleasingly visual director Cerdà's supernatural shocker is eerily replete with a goodly number of genuinely disquieting images, the macabre, white-eyed spectres are skin-crawlingly sinister entities, with the ever encroaching sense of suffocating doom morbidly maintained until the nihilistic narrative's stiflingly depressing conclusion. 








 

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