Review of Abandoned Dead (2015) by Saiful S — 12 Jan 2017

Review: Abandoned Dead (2017).

If you are not too cynical with every little detail, you will realize Mark Curran's Abandoned Dead is actually an overall decent work.

To comment without spoiler, I must say the plot is overall simple. A very sacrificing and responsible police officer Rachel Burke is positioned as a guard in an inner-city rehab center. But things do not go as they are supposed to and the watch turns into a sinister end.

The film was good enough to keep me terrified for a good extent of time. The main relief was that its simple and beautiful in its simplicity. Some horror films are all just sound manipulations. Abandoned Dead didn't betray me in this way.

This is not all. The most amazing thing is how it switches the whole category of this film switches at the end. The whole plot takes a shutter-island like twist and the semi-zombie abandoned-house film turns into a psychological thriller. Adding more information will destroy your pleasure of watching it.

Well, it is definitely not a flawless work, I must say. In some of the scenes, the dialogues sounded a little forced and speedy to me. The use of full healthy sentences are not the usual way people talk. Most of the time, we use fragment expressions. Another thing is some horror clichés, doors shutting down, and furniture moving on their own like stuff. Maybe, we've made so many horror films already that they keep coming back.

To conclude, I want to say that I myself was a cynical at first before I started working on my first film project. I started to realize that its not easy to get your things together as you make and learn at the same. People make unwatchable videos in their first try. Compared to that, I must say Curran scored and he scored very well.