New mother Emma Roberts moves into a home that's either haunted by the ghosts of neighbour Michael Shannon's past or her own depressive delusions. Either way, the low-stakes nature of the film assures us that it's nothing a bit of trauma-bonding (or anti-psychotics) can't fix. Emma Roberts is my favourite actress and I'll watch her in anything, but I'd rather watch her in something more substantial than "Abandoned", which could have been over and done with in thirty minutes considering how the film pulls it's punches as a feature. The acting from Roberts and Shannon is fine; they almost make the movie good by sheer force of will. Ultimately, however, there's no denying that we've seen this all before -- and we've seen it gorier, sexier, scarier.
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