This is what a decent haunted house movie should be like. That right sense of mystery and horror and of light and dark. The plot that drags in the viewer and doesn't offend you with unsightly images. A woman flees her murderous husband to save her children but dies herself. Her daughter grows up then goes in search of her ancestral home and ends up at the scene her story began but discovers her brother and ghosts; unfortunately, that's not where the story ends. Where the story loses me is in its time warp sub-plot where the siblings discover the house restoring itself as well as the ghosts of their future counterparts. They end up back in time and trapped reliving the events of their childhood, and when the woman tries to escape, she just ends up back to the house. It's scary, atmospheric and suspenseful, but it also becomes tedious, confusing and unbelievable at time. It is not just a simple haunted house movie and that's the shame, but still, it is worth watching if you don't mind a lack of logic in your story-telling.
Review of The Abandoned
