The Abandoned vs The Home

The Home has the higher audience score (9/10 against 5.5/10 for The Abandoned). The Home is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 1h 39m. The Abandoned is the older of the two (2006 against 2025). Both are horror, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

The Abandoned posterThe Abandoned2006 VS The Home posterThe Home2025
The AbandonedThe Home
Audience score★ 5.5/10★ 9.0/10
Year20062025
Length1h 39m1h 27m
GenresHorror, ThrillerHorror, Thriller
CountryBulgaria–
DirectorNacho CerdáMattias J. Skoglund
Main castKarel Roden, Valentin Ganev, Anastasia Hille, Carlos Reig-Plaza, Paraskeva DjukelovaBengt C.W. Carlsson, Anki Lidén, Philip Oros, Gizem Erdogan, Lottie Ejebrant

Synopsis

The Abandoned

Marie, a film producer, returns to her native Russia to find her birth parents. She quickly learns they are dead, and she has inherited their long-empty farmhouse. At the farm, she meets Nicolai, who claims to be her twin brother. Events take a terrifying turn when the two spot a pair of ghastly doppelgangers and the house itself seems to propel them toward a fate they should have met 40 years earlier.

The Home

Many years after leaving the small town behind, Joel returns to move his mother Monika, a home for the elderly struggling with dementia. However, Monika’s health takes a turn for the worse soon after her arrival. She experiences terrifying visions of her late husband, Joel’s abusive father, and begins exhibiting violent behavior. Joel begins to believe that something malevolent and supernatural has taken control of his mother. But with his own…

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