2015 · thriller · horror · mystery
The Abandoned
Directed by Eytan Rockaway1h 26m2015
A troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with a brusque rent-a-cop as her partner, she tries to not let her mind play tricks on her while she patrols the empty halls. But as the night progresses strange things begin to happen - and she realizes it may not all be in her head.
Our read: The Abandoned (2015) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded thriller · horror · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured thriller / horror, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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