Movie Review: Abandoned Dead

Rachel is afraid of the dark. She's a security guard or something and her boss needs her to cover the Mayfield Addiction Clinic overnight. She wants a replacement by midnight, but he says promising her that would make him a liar. The clinic is closed for the weekend so it's super empty and creepy. The girl that works there says that it's a bad neighborhood, there are stabbings and shootings. She gives her the quick tour of the place and tells her that it's an old building so there'll be noises, don't be alarmed. It's a one-story office building so... I don't think there's a lot of settling going on.

There's a detective dude who's investigating some murders that happened at Mayfield Addiction Clinic. There were only five patients there at the time the murders started so "how hard could it be".

Greg, Rachel's boss, calls to tell her he couldn't find anyone to relieve her at midnight. She'll just have to

She hears something and suddenly forgets that the building has electricity, opting to use her flashlight as her only source of sight. She goes into one of the unlocked rooms to check and finds a machine. She moves it out of the way with her baton. As she's walking to another room, the machine rolls into the hallway. Needless to say, she's a bit freaked out. There's a loud knock on the door and she opens it she finds the skinned body of a cat. She meets the caretaker, an odd country fella who I don't know is adorable or creepy.

Detective guy is simply sitting a diner spinning his ring on the table and eating.

Rachel orders food, which apparently upsets the building. Faux Google informs her that there's a Mayfield Addiction Clinic murderer.

Detective stares off into the distance as he stands by a cliff.

Rachel's pizza shows up and the delivery boy is offended that she only gave him a $3 tip. He offers to come back later to keep her company, she rightly closes the door in his face.

Detective gets a note telling him to meet with someone at Mayfield. He walks by a payphone and it rings. There's a person on the other end saying, "She is insane."

Glass breaks at Mayfield, Rachel finds the window in the kitchen shattered. Still forgetting that the building has electricity, she opts for her flashlight. Weird noises - not the old building settling - are coming from down the hall. There's a light on and what looks like a heat lamp overhead. A girl sits on the bed inside, dirty and creepy with icy blue eyes. Not like a husky, but like Kane.

The first time in the entire movie Rachel goes to turn the lights on, they electrocute her and send the entire building into a blackout. Her batteries are probably going to go out soon because she was using her flashlight the whole fudgin' time! She finds another flashlight in the good doctor's office, but inexplicably leaves it there. AH! Called it! Her flashlight died! Now she's using her flashlight app on her phone. She finds a lamp just in time to see some creepy guy crawling toward her. His face is all scarred up or he's a zombie, I can't tell.

I'm just going to stop mentioning the detective.

Rachel's freaking out. She's running from room to room with no real reasoning. She goes into one room and finds a body covered in a sheet. She pulls back the sheet to find a woman with her eyes ripped out. Rachel takes off. Well, she tries. The door is locked. A doll has the key around it's neck and she uses it to get out. Her car won't start. She runs to the caretaker, who turns out to be dead. No one's car will start. Someone's walking toward her with a large knife and she runs back into the clinic. No flashlight, phone's don't work and now she's practically in the fetal position with a candle. The knife guy has the speed of Michael Myers, but somehow manages to be behind her when the locks the door - ala Michael Myers. She's chloroformed and wakes up strapped to a table in a room covered in plastic, mouth duct taped.

We see a little girl hiding in a closet as someone fights to get her door open.

I saw the murderer a mile away, so easy. The good doctor with all the locked doors is a psycho with a God complex. Rachel has super strength now apparently escaping after breaking the tape and hitting the doc, throwing the jar of acid he had sitting there in his face. Why a jar of acid? Some old lady nurse appears to Rachel and tells her to listen to the voices. She finds some files and she's all like, "No, this can't be!" What? What can't be? We see her stabbing a guy who was trying to have sex with her, but I'm still confused.

The detective, who I vowed not to mention again, has actually made it to the clinic.

Rachel goes outside and finds her lamp. She's checking out the electrical boxes when the doctor comes up behind her. He says she can't escape him. She throws him into the electrical boxes, electrocuting him to death.

The detective finds a toolbox with a knife on it, presumably the murder weapon. O.M.G. Rachel is a psychiatric patient and the old lady nurse is actually her doctor. She's been a patient for ten years. The nice lady doctor tells her that the clinic was a dreamlike escapism and she's trying to escape her childhood trauma. Doctor Mayfield was the character she created to take the place of her father, who did horrible things to her when she was a child. She gives Rachel her childhood diary and tells her that when she has moments of clarity to try to read it.

Back to the detective, who literally has done nothing to further this story. He reads her diary and it's revealed that she killed her father by cutting out his heart and ripping out his eyes. I'm still not sure why the detective needed to be here.

The closing shot of the movie is Rachel standing by the sea.

It wasn't the worst I've seen, not by a long shot. It had a lot of elements I didn't understand or things that weren't needed in the slightest, like the detective. All in all, an okay movie. I liked the concept of projection caused by childhood trauma, as it touches a large part of my soul.

Moral of this movie: Well... really nothing bad happened in this movie except for her childhood trauma so... I don't have any sarcastic comments for this one. Sorry.