***Spoilers Ahead*** Abandoned Dead started off GREAT & had my full attention.It was GOOD & CREEPY.The long, dark hallway, the hospital equipment moving by itself, the stuffed doll come to life, the creepy caretaker, somebody or something calling out the security guards name, etc, etc, etc. Even the pizza guy was a creep.I was on the edge of my seat until the scene where the security guard went into the room that had the corpse laying there, looking like she once was wearing a sleeping mask that somebody used as a stencil, cut around it & removed the skin.After this, I got a feeling the movie was going downhill & it did.It took a straight nosedive from there.It's like somebody hit a switch & it went from GREAT to garbage, it went from being a Horror flick to....... I don't even know what to call it.If they would've kept the story going about the creeped out security guard rather than switching to a hypnotized mental patient, Abandoned Dead would've been perfect.Another thing I really liked about the movie was that it was set in an addiction clinic (1st time I've ever seen that) Every movie I've seen where a security guard is watching over a building overnight, it's set in a mental hospital, hospital or a huge building.Maybe that's what made it so scary as well, it wasn't set in a HUGE building.Abandoned Dead started off with GREAT potential.The 1st half was awesome but the 2nd half completely falls apart so I wouldn't recommend anybody go see it unless you want to be disappointed like I was (HUGE, HUGE, HUGE disappointment) 1 star just for the 1st half of the movie

Directed by Mark Curran, Abandoned Dead is a pretty great suspense thriller. When first watched as a horror film, I would have rated this lower, but despite the name and couple of goryish scenes, it's more of an introspective look into the life of a security guard who is working an extra shift, and has to deal with some psychological mystery surrounding the place she is guarding. There is some nice camera-work and lighting, some good acting, and everyone involved did a great job from cast to crew. Sarah Nicklin does a great job as the main character Rachel, who plays the security guard the movie focuses on. The atmosphere was great for what they were trying to accomplish with this film. I would definitely give this a watch if you are into suspenseful thrillers, and keep an eye out for more films from Mark Curran and team.

watched this the other night and I thought it was awesome. I thought for its budget it really did well. music was great! if your a horror fan you need to watch this :) wont give anything away but it is full of some creepy moments :) really like the actual story line with the security guard out of her comfort zone at night. it has a great twist at the end but all the way though I couldn't get what was going to happen or how things would turn out. didn't like the pizza guy, as in his attitude not him being in it, ha ha. if you get a chance I would recommend giving this a go. as I said it is for any true horror fan. hope you enjoy

If you are not too cynical with every little detail, you will realize Mark Curran's Abandoned Dead is actually an overall decent work. To comment without spoiler, I must say the plot is overall simple. A very sacrificing and responsible police officer Rachel Burke is positioned as a guard in an inner-city rehab center. But things do not go as they are supposed to and the watch turns into a sinister end.The film was good enough to keep me terrified for a good extent of time. The main relief was that its simple and beautiful in its simplicity. Some horror films are all just sound manipulations. Abandoned Dead didn't betray me in this way. This is not all. The most amazing thing is how it switches the whole category of this film switches at the end. The whole plot takes a shutter-island like twist and the semi-zombie abandoned-house film turns into a psychological thriller. Adding more information will destroy your pleasure of watching it.Well, it is definitely not a flawless work, I must say. In some of the scenes, the dialogues sounded a little forced and speedy to me. The use of full healthy sentences are not the usual way people talk. Most of the time, we use fragment expressions. Another thing is some horror clichés, doors shutting down, and furniture moving on their own like stuff. Maybe, we've made so many horror films already that they keep coming back.To conclude, I want to say that I myself was a cynical at first before I started working on my first film project. I started to realize that its not easy to get your things together as you make and learn at the same. People make watchable videos in their first try. Compared to that, I must say Curran scored and he scored very well.