The Abandoned

The Abandoned

Death never runs out of time.

R 2006 · 99 min · ★ 5.5 · Horror, Thriller

Marie, a film producer, returns to her native Russia to find her birth parents. She quickly learns they are dead, and she has inherited their long-empty farmhouse. At the farm, she meets Nicolai, who claims to be her twin brother. Events take a terrifying turn when the two spot a pair of ghastly doppelgangers and the house itself seems to propel them toward a fate they should have met 40 years earlier.

Directed by Nacho Cerdà · Written by Richard Stanley

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