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29 March 2009 3:56 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

With a screenplay credited to Karim (Subconscious Cruelty) Hussain, Richard (Hardware) Stanley and Nacho (Aftermath) Cerdà, and direction by Cerdà himself (making his long-awaited feature debut), you might expect The Abandoned to be some transgressive cinematic act of war, two hours of mind-twisting, boundary-smashing, subversive content that pushes the envelope until the screen actually bleeds.

In fact, the most shocking thing about The Abandoned is that it’s not just accessible, but it’s almost (gasp) mainstream. Its early scenes—in which film producer Marie (Anastasia Hille) is summoned to Russia on the eve of her 40th birthday by a peculiar solicitor (Carlos Reig) with information about her mysterious roots—wouldn’t play a note differently if they featured Julianne Moore and Bob Hoskins. So has Cerdà, the man who once made an entire film dedicated to necrophilia and postmortem mutilation, sold out and gone Hollywood?

The good news is that the answer is no. »

1 article from 2009