The Abandoned Page #2

Synopsis: Take a terrifying plunge into the warped mind of a disturbed young woman. Desperate to get her life back on track, the unstable Streak takes a job as a security guard, working the graveyard shift at a once upscale, now abandoned apartment complex. But on her first night on duty, she discovers a horrifying presence lurking deep within the bowels of the decaying building. With her nerves already on edge, Streak must confront demons both real and imagined as she struggles to keep a grip on her sanity.
Director(s): Eytan Rockaway
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.0
Metacritic:
32
NOT RATED
Year:
2015
86 min
72 Views


- Yeah.

Yeah, I do kickboxing.

Yup. You have to for this job.

- Ho-ho. Yeah?

- Mm-hmm.

- Is that what Dixon told you?

I must've missed that one.

I can't kickbox.

Guess what?

You don't.

I don't think I've seen

one of these since 1982.

My grandma had one of these.

- Do not touch my stuff!

- That's quick... kickboxer.

[BURPS]

Where you goin'?

- Patrol.

- Not without this you're not.

Goes on like this.

[MOUSE CLICKING]

[CLANGS]

[BEEPS]

[RATTLING]

[CLANGING]

[MOUSE CLICKING]

Um..

Do you miss me yet?

- What are you doing?

- Me?

I'm not doing anything.

Just a little, uh

welcome ceremony,

a little initiation..

To the security world.

[BUTTONS CLICKING]

- Open the door, Cooper.

- Cooper, this is not a game.

- Games?

I don't play games.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[FOOTSTEPS]

[INDISTINCT WHISPERING]

[WHISPERING CONTINUES]

- Cooper, let me out!

Cooper, let me out

of the elevator!

Please, Cooper, let me out!

Please, Cooper!

Please open the door!

Cooper!

Open the door!

- Relax. I'm just testing

the cut-off switch.

- Please open the door! Cooper!

- Seems to be workin' fine.

[GASPS]

[WHIRRING]

[PANTING]

[EXHALES HEAVILY]

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[FOOTSTEPS]

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

- I can see-e-e you-u-u.

- I can't believe how huge

and beautiful it is.

- That's what she said.

- This place is amazing.

- You wanna see something

even better?

- Why should I trust you

all of a sudden?

- 'Cause I'm all you got

tonight, babe.

Go over your left

and exit through there.

Then your right,

go down that corridor.

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[PANTING]

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

- They really spared no expense.

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

And nobody will live here?

- They never finished it.

- It's so dark in here.

Uh! What is that smell?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[SCREAMS]

Uh!

- First night,

you found an intruder.

Very promising, Ms. Streak.

- Jerk.

- This way.

- Hey, Cooper,

did you hear that?

- Hear what?

[INTENSE MUSIC]

- Never mind.

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[BEEPING]

Ah!

[HUFFS]

- Complimentary

first night meal. Enjoy.

- This looks like hospital food.

- You know why hospital food

tastes the way it does?

- Why?

- 'Cause it makes you wanna get out of the hospital.

Think about that.

- Uh, why are you

being so nice to me?

- I'm not being nice.

- That's company policy.

In a few hours, your stomach's

gonna be grumbling

and you're gonna

wanna fall asleep.

You need that fuel.

- She's pretty.

- Is that your daughter?

- Yup.

- Are you guys close?

- Hey.

Enough.

- You know,

I have a daughter, too.

- Good.

- Her name's Clara.

[KEYBOARD KEYS CLACKING]

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