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Metascore®42 out of 100 | Mixed or average reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott Tobias

    The Abandoned is a rare horror film that moves from the real world into a kind of psychic space, and slowly suffocates its characters inside their own heads. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Dennis Harvey

    Minimally plotted but beautifully atmospheric nightmare. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    After a while, Mr. Cerdà exhausts his repertory of spooky effects -- too many dark hallways and illogical, foreboding point-of-view shots -- and you begin to hunger for exposition, always a bad sign in a horror film. Even worse is that, by the time the explanations arrive, you no longer care. Read full review

  • 16
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The gimmick in The Abandoned is that people battle their zombie doubles, whom they can't kill, since they'd be killing themselves. But the movie sinks so deep into deathly atmosphere that there's no life to it. Read full review

Avg. Fan Rating:
Average Rating = 2.8 out of 5

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