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Scott Tobias, AV Club: Director Nacho Cerda succeeds in pushing the haunted-house movie into an abstract realm where the past and present fold into each other. Read more
Erin Meister, Boston Globe: Perhaps the worst offense of The Abandoned, however, is that so little effort is made by the screenwriters to make any 'sense' of it all. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The movie sinks so deep into deathly atmosphere that there's no life to it. Read more
Jim Ridley, L.A. Weekly: The last thing a filmmaker named Nacho needs is more cheese. Read more
Dennis Harvey, Variety: Eerie frights here are more a matter of sheer dread-soaked atmosphere. Read more
Jim Ridley, Village Voice: The relatively tame horrors on display here may disappoint fans of the director's gut-spelunking short Aftermath, which made him an underground hero on the abra-cadaver circuit. Read more