Review – The Abandoned

As is sadly typical with many ghost stories, this tale simply doesn’t have enough material for a feature-length production. A woman returns to Russia to search for some answers about her family history. At the abandoned homestead she meets her brother and their ghostly doppelgangers, and things just sort of go from there. The picture has a good, eerie moment or two early on, but then it just keeps using the same shocks over and over. Further, the plot doesn’t do much developing until the last few minutes. And by then I was so thoroughly bored that I didn’t care much about what the dark family secrets actually were. Perhaps I should have just taken a hint from the title. Verdict: see if desperate.