Abandoned movie movie#
The film falls apart by the end partly because it doesnt fully commit to being either a predictable haunted house movie or a metaphorical modern thriller. They might not be the easiest to get to (like the one that’s underwater) or find, but they’re certainly worth a visit for any movie fan. Abandoned is a run-of-the-mill haunted house flick on the surface that attempts to add elevation with metaphors but ends up creating a confused and undercooked story. No matter your favorite genre, there’s an abandoned set for virtually every type of film. Some, like District 12 from Hunger Games and the mall from Blues Brothers lay in ruins, while others, like the signs from M*A*S*H or Angelina Jolie’s Girl Interrupted, are just hints of what once was. If that piques your interest, you're in luck: there are other vestiges of movie sets all over the world you can visit. Some of the houses even include props original to the film to impart a true sense of movie magic. It’s open seven days a week and features shows, rides, museums, and children’s play houses where kids can meet the main characters from the show-such as Popeye, Olive Oyl, Bluto, and Wimpy. Now called Popeye Village, tourists can visit the leftover pieces of the Hollywood film and even host weddings there. Since wrapping almost 30 years ago, the locals have repainted it, making it a colorful scene. The final product included 19 wooden buildings painted very bland colors so the actors could pop against them. Built on the water’s edge of Anchor Bay, the original set took seven months and a crew of 165 to complete. Starring Robin Williams, the flick featured the fictional village of Sweethaven, where Popeye arrived in search of his long-lost father. But there’s another draw on the Mediterranean island that’s one of the most popular among tourists: the abandoned set of the 1980 film Popeye. 5/10.Malta has become increasingly popular over the years, with its crystal blue waters and numerous historic sites.
On a visual and atmospheric level, it's fantastic, but, as I said, the script doesn't match up with the film's aesthetic strides. Overall, "The Abandoned" is a middling supernatural horror film it is far from revolutionary, and is at times frustrating in its employment of routine plot devices, but the synergy between Krause and Patric is great, and the film is at times legitimately creepy, even in its conventionality. Both provide solid performances that are better than the material demands. Louisa Krause and Jason Patric have great chemistry on screen here, and play off of one another quite well. At times the film reminded me of 2011's "The Innkeepers" due to the sparse cast and nightshift setting, though a far less subtle version at other times, it seems inspired by 1999's "House on Haunted Hill" remake. It is not necessarily as cliché-ridden as many have seemed to paint it to be, though it is most definitely clichéd. The script is where this film is truly weakest, although this mostly lay in the hodgepodge resolution, which is where the film really begins to come apart at the seams.
The film is worth viewing for this reason alone, as it is truly engrossing on just a visual level. It's well-photographed and the sprawling Renaissance-meets-art deco interiors are profoundly creepy. Newspaperman helps girl find her sister's illegitimate baby, gets mixed up in baby-adoption racket. Previous reviewers are astute in their observance of the film's atmosphere, which is laid on thick and is really the central reason that I stuck with the film from beginning to end. With Dennis O'Keefe, Gale Storm, Jeff Chandler, Meg Randall. Perhaps it's because I went into this film with relatively low expectations, but I found "The Abandoned" to really only be half-bad. Training her on the job is a cynical longtime employee (Jason Patric), but what should be fresh on-the-job jitters becomes a living nightmare when she discovers something sinister lurking in the building. "The Abandoned" has a young troubled woman (Louisa Krause) working as a night patrol at a massive abandoned luxury apartment building in New York City.