Monday, July 26, 2021

'The Abandoned' (2006) - Nacho Cerdà.

'The Abandoned' is a profoundly gloomy supernatural marrow-chiller by noted Spanish splatter mad hatter Nacho 'Aftermath' Cerdà. Aiming his delectably skewed view upon the more conventional tropes of one especially desolated haunted house, replete with its exquisite lighting flourishes, creepy, diabolically dilapidated set design, and committed performances by the terrorized siblings Marie (Anastasia Hille) and estranged brother Nicolai (Karel Roden). Their desperate search for any 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. The Abandoned grimly suggests that the terrible secret of their uncommonly grisly family history is, perhaps, destined to repeat itself! Not altogether unique, yet the visually astute director's sinister shocker has a number of palpably disquieting scares! The macabre, white-eyed spectres are skin-crawlingly grim entities, with the ever encroaching sense of suffocating doom morbidly maintained until the nihilistic narrative's stiflingly depressing conclusion!

 


 

 








 

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