Description:An American woman searching for her birth parents learns she has inherited a house in the middle of a forest in a remote area of Russia. It is the house where she was born. Abandoned and uninhabited for 40 years, it stands in total disrepair and neglect. What she finds is more than an old house. She meets a mysterious man claiming to An American woman searching for her birth parents learns she has inherited a house in the middle of a forest in a remote area of Russia. It is the house where she was born. Abandoned and uninhabited for 40 years, it stands in total disrepair and neglect. What she finds is more than an old house. She meets a mysterious man claiming to be her twin brother and together they find the house holds dangerous secrets to a past they don't even remember. They are forced to relive a series of horrifying events and shocking murders that occurred just after they were born, and in the place where they were supposed to die.... (more)(less)
""When you've seen your twin it's time to die."
The Abandoned does try, and I guess that in the minds of the people who wrote it, it is a completely logical narrative whole. Too bad that it really, REALLY doesn't translate like that to the big screen. When you explain nothing, the film does not become mysterious and ambiguous. You can't expect me to watch a goddamn slideshow and assume that because you don't explain anything to me I'll give a shit. Give me something, characters, explanation, a"
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