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  • THE ABANDONED (2006)....good supernatural horror film.

    Watched this again last night. Caught it during After Dark's HORRORFEST last November, and was floored. You can watch it for free too, and at your leisure.

    It's under FEARnet in your OnDemand cable menu. Go to Free Movies, then FEARnet, then HORRORFEST. (6) of the (8) Horrorfest films are available, and as Horror goes--some of these are really good efforts for this genre's recent bad-rap with the Cinemedia.

    The writer for one of the good films(Unrest), posts on here sometimes. Did a great job, as did the Director. Very original and fresh if you like real cadavers as antagonists. This one was penned by a darn good Horror writer. Perhaps the best script of the 8 films....no, I'll say that it is the best.

    The Abandoned is the crown jewel of the bunch. I dare say the mood and pacing was almost brilliant. There's some issues audio-wise(the boom guy must've been scared to get in close), but the plotting is kicka$$! Dialogue wasn't over-the-top and far from excessive, so I'd love to get my hands on a copy of the script(bet you $20 it was under 80 pages); although, the Directing stood out the most.

    We're discussing Directors, NACHO CERDA is an outstanding talent.

    If you like good Horror, as in...original and un-conventional compared to recent releases outside of 1408, then both of these will be entertaining. Not complete classics, but I think you'll appreciate the effort, and enjoy the ride.

    The Abandoned
    Unrest
    Wicked Little Things(if you like zombies)
    Gravedancers(cool looking ghosts...silly set-up, but somehow it works)
    The Hamiltons(a bit like the torture porns...directed by The Butcher Brothers, who are remaking APRIL FOOL'S DAY...they're okay)
    Reincarnation(cookie cut from The Grudge, but still decent...Haunted Hotels=Good)
    Penny Dreadful(awesome trailer...couldn't have been written by an experienced writer..oddly enough, this is probably what my first will turn out like )
    Dark Ride(my bulldog Mandrake could have done better while pooping...seriously...unacceptable)
    Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horrors(I bet it would be fun to smoke chronic while making a Horror fizzilm....why not? Snoop's always got his ho's with him)

    Watch the bolded ones. The others might make your head explode...you've seen those stories done already.
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    Re: THE ABANDONED (2006)....good supernatural horror film.

    do you really have a bulldog names mandrake? that's awesome.

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      Re: THE ABANDONED (2006)....good supernatural horror film.

      All I've seen of the bunch was Gravedancers, which was a little disappointing. I really liked Mike Mendez's first film. The Convent was a fun little send-up of eighties-style horror, about a bunch of kids that end up overnighting in the haunted convent, being picked off one by one by demon nuns and turned into jibbering zombies. It had one of my favorite openings ever, and late in the game Adrienne Barbeau roars in on a Harley to help kick some ass.

      Gravedancers makes me think that The Convent was more writer/producer Chaton Anderson's vision than Mendez, 'cause the flick isn't all that much fun. It's not bad, just something that I'm not all that curious to watch a second time.

      I'll go ahead and give The Abandoned a try. I was leery of it because all I've seen of Cerdà's work was a short called Aftermath... which was thirty minutes of nothing but an autopsy of a young woman that gets progressively more twisted as it goes along. Yeah, it goes there.

      Well shot, though.
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        Re: THE ABANDONED (2006)....good supernatural horror film.

        Originally posted by Adam Isaac View Post
        Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horrors(I bet it would be fun to smoke chronic while making a Horror fizzilm....why not? Snoop's always got his ho's with him)

        Hope that was sarcasm and if not.... As far as the first After Dark series of films goes, "Unrest" was the best film I've seen thus far. The worst? Without a doubt "The Gravedancers" although I'm sure "Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror" as well as others are probably even worse.

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          Re: THE ABANDONED (2006)....good supernatural horror film.

          It was a nice little shocker.

          But Unrest and The Hamiltons were my fav out of that After Dark festival.
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            Re: THE ABANDONED (2006)....good supernatural horror film.

            Originally posted by Adam Isaac View Post
            Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horrors(I bet it would be fun to smoke chronic while making a Horror fizzilm....why not? Snoop's always got his ho's with him)
            Watch yo schnizzle, before yo pizzle.

            Translation: Lay off the chronic bro.
            @TerranceMulloy

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              Re: THE ABANDONED (2006)....good supernatural horror film.

              Originally posted by Arroway View Post
              do you really have a bulldog names mandrake? that's awesome.
              Yeah. I had two, but he got sick(common with those guys-always happy-but rarely completely healthy after 5-6 years)...his name was Alfred Hitchcock.
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                Re: THE ABANDONED (2006)....good supernatural horror film.

                Originally posted by j over View Post
                Hope that was sarcasm and if not.... As far as the first After Dark series of films goes, "Unrest" was the best film I've seen thus far. The worst? Without a doubt "The Gravedancers" although I'm sure "Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror" as well as others are probably even worse.
                Dude, most of my posts are sarcastic.

                Chronic's a drink right?
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