“On the early draft for THE ABANDONED: It was a very strange, obsessive little script; inspired by many trips I took to my father’s farm in my youth. The layout of the farm in the movie is still a bit similar to the layout of that farm. In the night, that place was one of the most fantastic, terrifying and ghostly places imaginable. So much black space, so much darkness where anything could happen. Many of the buildings were in bad shape, rotting. It was so beautiful. I grew up going there practically every weekend and my imagination would run wild.”