The Abandoned: A truck crashes into a Russian farmyard in the 1960s, the farmer finds a dead woman and two wailing babies in the cab. 40 tears later, Marie (Anastasia Hille) returns to Russia to try and trace her family history, having inherited a property she makes her way to an isolated house. Things turn strange straight away - we have the obligatory peasant woman warning her not to go there and a surly driver who disappears once they arrive island farm. The house is dilapidated but Marie encounters a zombiesque woman, fleeing the house she falls in the river. Coming too she encounters Nikolai (Karl Roden) who claims to be her twin brother. Zombies or solid ghosts who are all too familiar to them attack.
Poltergeists, evil spirits, timeslips and timeloops abound in this dark film. Deaths are reenacted, Marie and Nikolai go out of phase with eachother as the house rejuvenates itself to its 1960s state. But time flows backwards and forwards in a storm. A creepy film, horror but not too many out and out scares, it depends a lot on atmosphere and camera work by Xavi Gimenez. The story is convoluted at times,,some scenes could have been shortened and the suggestion that experiments were carried out in tunnels under house expanded on. Directed and written by Nacho Cerdà. 7/10. On the Horror Channel.