The movie is worth watching because Brittany is in it, otherwise it's just so so. Some scenes she has tremendous bags under her eyes, and her hair sticks out like hair spray was dumped on her. Her make up/character didn't warrant this effect, and she should have looked better kept. Make up on her eyebrows and her hair needed the roots done, and a good shampoo would have helped. She already has big lips (botox?), but the lipstick applied was over extended and she looked like the Joker from Batman. POOR choice again by the casting personnel. Then to find in the end credits her husband, Simon took credit for it. Maybe the director's fault? My only complaint was Brittany's make up and hair. Their acting ability was poor and it brought down some of the scenes. Some of the actors didn't fit the rolls and came off kinda dumb. I really enjoyed seeing Brittany in this film, but think some of the casting was off. But once you realized what was happening, the movie was a little better going. The character seems annoyed at being there, quick to judge Sara and quicker to suggest medication.I enjoyed the movie, although the plot took some time to settle in and drug out in the beginning. Is that meant to be a pun, Mom abandoning her kid? I don’t know, any more than I can make heads or tales out of bland husband Alex’s pig farmer client concerns, a subtext that doesn’t have enough correlation to what’s going on at home to merit inclusion.Īn interesting cameo by Paul Schneider, as a psychotherapist who makes house calls, might be the movie’s “tell.” The “ghosts” are just actors in a little more makeup than the leading lady, who never convinces us she’s that scared of them or anything going on in this not-exactly-“Abandoned” house.
The Erik Patterson and Jessica Scott script is laughably generic, and even the potentially alarming moments are given a cut-rate handling by director Spencer Squire, who hopefully resented the fact that the production didn’t even have money for spectral effects. Afterwards, the player may enter the abandoned JojaMart and find the.
Roberts shows no sign of having that skillset. The Movie Theater is a building that allows players to watch movies, alone or with.
Horror movie acting is a particular skill, an Oh-MY-GOD buy-in that she’s got to accept before we buy in to her in this role and by extension, this movie. Any suspense, rising sense of terror and manic reaction to her veterinarian husband’s underreaction to the house’s shenanigans and over-reaction to her disinterested mothering, is missing. Roberts doesn’t make that journey as an actress. Roberts’ mother is meant to lose her wits, not knowing if she’s seeing things that cannot be, if she will never connect with her baby before whoever or whatever’s in this house threatens that baby or takes little Liam away. But this house and its history, and the creepy neighbor ( Michael Shannon) next door, are sure to harsh her “change of scenery” mellow. Sara’s “I don’t mind a little haunting” isn’t exactly what we’d expect her to say. I mean, how many real estate agents would keep the place’s ugly “murder suicide” history in mind, and even have the crime-scene photos on hand when she’s asked that question they all hate answering (honestly)?
plays the husband - who ignore the warning signs and make their “escape to the country” in a house full of red flags. Whatever subtlety Roberts brings to that moment, and a few others, are essentially wasted in this tepid tale of a young city couple - John Gallagher Jr. Sure, it’s almost certainly a happy accident on the set, but working with babies, you take what you can get. You can feel a bit of “What am I missing here?” in her eyes as baby Liam gawks back with whatever emotion you want to read into a baby’s eyes. There’s a mutual curiosity in what turns into something of a stare-down. She picks the toddler up and regards him, and he regards her. There’s an almost magical acting moment early in the haunted house thriller “Abandoned.” It’s a scene in which new mom Emma Roberts, playing a new mom with post-partum depression that’s keeping her from bonding with her baby.