The Abandoned Page #2

Synopsis: In 1966, somewhere in Russia, a wounded woman drives a truck to an isolated farm with two babies. Forty years later, the film producer Marie Jones leaves her daughter in California and travels back to her home land in the wilderness of Russia. Marie is one of the children and had received a phone call from the notary public Andrei Misharin, who told her where the farm of her family is located. Marie arrives at the abandoned house and meets the stranger Nicolai, who tells her that he had also received a call from Misharin and he is her twin brother. Weird things happen in the house and Marie and Nicolai are haunted by zombie-like ghosts of themselves. Further, they find that they are trapped in the house and can not leave the place.
Director(s): Nacho Cerdà
Production: Lionsgate Films/Afterdark Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
42
Rotten Tomatoes:
38%
R
Year:
2006
99 min
£1,255,524
Website
90 Views


Nothing creepy.

I had to get you out

of those wet things before...

I mean, we are brother

and sister, right?

- Come on.

- Hey.

You never said

how you got here.

I walked.

Took me a few days.

My unit trained in this area.

See that door?

I heard something moving

back there on the first night.

Where does that lead to?

I don't know.

Come on, Nicolai.

I don't like it down here.

Give me a minute.

What the hell is that?

Sounds like a truck.

- Jesus, it's him.

- Who?

Hey.

Hey, wait!

Wait! Marie!

It's Anatoliy.

Hey, I don't like this.

Wait a second!

Yeah, let my go, Nicolai.

I've had it with this sh*t.

The bridge is down, Marie.

Whoever that guy is,

he's part of it.

What do you mean?

You have a gun, don't you?

Wait!

Hey.

Anatoliy!

Damn.

- Hey.

- Hey.

Are you crazy?

Where the hell is it?

You...

You saw it too, right?

Is this what you were looking for?

This hasn't moved

anywhere for years.

This is the same truck

I came here in.

- It worked.

- Don't be silly.

It can't be the same one.

What was that?

Hey, these aren't animal bones.

Looks like a bullet wound.

A shotgun maybe.

Kaidanovsky.

I think we've just found

another member of the family.

What are you doing?

Move away.

Get behind me.

What the f*** are they?

Just shoot them!

Nicolai, shoot them!

What are you doing?

For God's sake,

Nicolai, shoot them!

Oh, God!

- Come on, Nicolai!

- The gun.

- Get the gun!

- Okay.

Come on.

Come on!

Sh*t.

Here.

- Sh*t.

- Where's our stuff?

The barricades.

Someone's been here.

Someone must have been here.

Look, you're bleeding real bad.

- You're bleeding real bad.

- I'm fine!

Jesus.

What were those things back there?

Who? Our friends?

I guess whatever...

whatever happened to them

happens to us.

Oh, sh*t.

It makes it hard

to kill them, doesn't it?

What are you talking about?

I saw your double

a couple of days ago.

When I saw the real you,

I didn't know what to believe.

Oh, my God.

Oh, sh*t.

Mine was soaked,

soaked through

like I fell in the river.

Sh*t!

So you will drown, then.

They're our deaths,

Marie, our futures.

Oh, God.

We are haunting ourselves.

Hey, what are you doing?

- If I die, I'm doing it my way.

- Stop! Don't!

- Don't leave me here!

- Let me go!

They caught you.

F***!

No.

No f***ing way.

Come on.

Don't do this to me!

God!

Oh, sh*t. Okay.

This is not happening

to me, right?

This is not

happening to me.

What are you looking at,

you f***ing b*tch?

Nicolai! Is that you?

Are you there?

Nicolai, come on!

Are you there?

Son of a b*tch.

Okay.

Come on.

The bridge.

Okay.

Nicolai?

Hey.

Is that you?

Oh, sh*t!

Sh*t.

Please.

B*tch!

Oh, f*** this.

Sh*t.

Oh, sh*t!

No.

I knew you would turn up.

Don't let the decorations bother you.

I found it like this.

You're dead, Nicolai.

You fell into a black hole.

I fell in the tunnel,

in the basement.

But it was black enough.

You tried to cross

the river, didn't you?

Don't tell me.

You didn't get far, right?

Just who are you?

You should be asking you

the same thing.

- I know who I am.

- Oh, no.

You have no idea

who you really are.

What happened to you?

The house wants us back.

What the hell happened here?

What did they do in this place?

You saw it, didn't you?

I saw someone upstairs,

a man, in our parents' room.

I saw what he did to her, Nicolai.

Like watching a f***ing home movie.

We were never meant

to leave this place.

See the cake,

the decorations?

It's our homecoming.

We don't belong here anymore.

Jesus, that thing tried to kill me.

I don't think they can.

Not until midnight.

Why midnight?

What happens then?

It's our birthday.

They say when

you see yourself,

your doppelganger...

that it's time to die.

What happened to you down there?

I saw the past.

Mama.

Marie?

Marie.

Don't go any farther.

What is this place?

- Do you really want to know?

- Yes, I really want to know.

We were supposed to die

in this house in '66.

Now our father is going

to get his wish.

Our father?

Yeah, Kolya Kaidanovsky,

the man you saw upstairs.

At midnight everything

will be recreated as it was

on the night of the murders.

Only this time, we'll die

as we were always meant to.

We'll become our destinies,

our doppelgangers.

We don't have much time.

What is that?

Let's get out of here.

So, how do you want to spend

your last few minutes?

Ever been to Disneyland?

You have a daughter, don't you?

Yeah. Emily.

I guess I'm here

because of her.

What do you mean?

Well...

I watch her grow up every day

and...

I know that eventually

she'll walk away,

live a life of her own.

I'm frightened.

Of what?

Being alone.

Dying.

I thought it would

make me feel better,

but it doesn't.

Having a child, I mean.

How about you?

There must be someone out there.

Natalya.

I did a matching design

for her many years ago.

And now, I'm afraid

to touch another woman.

She said that she...

She said, "You have

come back from hell."

"I'll save you."

But she couldn't.

She left me.

I guess this is it.

It's not over.

It stopped.

What are you doing?

Mother of God.

It's her.

It's our mother.

It's all going to happen again.

- Just like before.

- Marie?

- What?

- You're back in '66.

The truck.

The truck in the pig sty.

It might work.

Hey.

Come on!

That's him.

That's our father.

Nicolai, we've got

to do something.

There's nothing we can do.

What do you mean?

We're just going to stand by...

Nicolai, we can't stand by

and let him go upstairs

- and f***ing kill her.

- It's too late.

Hey, come on.

We can get the truck now.

- No!

- Come on!

Oh, sh*t.

Leave us alone,

you son of a b*tch!

It's all been done.

You can't stop it.

Yeah, but maybe

we can change it!

It was all over

- Stop hurting her!

- It's not real!

- Yeah, the f*** that isn't real!

- Stop. We've got to get the truck.

We've got to get the truck.

You must go if you want to live.

Go!

Go!

Go! Run!

Run!

Natalya.

Motherf***er!

Papa.

I'm so sorry this happened.

I gave your mother

everything I could...

a life...

a home.

When she tried to take

my children away from me,

to take you away...

to break the circle...

It wasn't easy

bringing us back together,

but it was worth it, you know,

just to see you again.

You belong with me

and the family...

at home.

No!

Why, God?

Mr. Misharin?

Please.

I thought your birthday

would be a suitable time.

You know...

I was your age

when she killed me.

Come on!

We're still missing

one member of the family.

Emily, your daughter.

Nicolai.

Don't be afraid.

Your brother is with us now.

I love all of you.

I always will.

Yes! Come on!

Yes!

Please let me go!

Where are you going, Milla?

I need you.

I need all of you.

Don't you think your mother

tried to leave before?

There's no way out of this.

Come back.

Shut up!

Shut the f*** up!

No matter where you go...

...will be with me together forever...

- Shut the f*** up!

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Karim Hussain

Karim Hussain (born July 16, 1974 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian screenwriter, director and cinematographer. He is best known for his 2000 film Subconscious Cruelty, and as co-writer of Nacho Cerdà's The Abandoned. In 2006, he adapted French-Canadian writer Marie-Claire Blais' work, La Belle Bête. For it, he won the Director's Award at the Boston Underground Film Festival. more…

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