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Festival coverage

Abertoir

15 November – 20 November 2016

Kiyoshi Kuroswa's Creepy
Kiyoshi Kuroswa's Creepy

Wales' top horror film festival returns for another year with lots of ghoulish goodies, including some of the hottest properties on the horror festival circuit this year, plus a collection of treasures from the vaults.

The festival runs from 15 to 20 November.

Other years (12)

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Latest reviews

  • A Dark Song
    Review preview for A Dark Song

    Walker's performance as a woman mentally imprisoned by the strength of her own feelings is painful to watch, in a good way.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A grieving mother sets out to contact her dead child.
  • The Void
    Review preview for The Void

    Gillespie and Kostanski's real talents become visible when it comes to the special effects work, and here the film excels.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    An officer helps a blood-soaked figure on the road but the trip to the hospital turns into a nightmare.
  • The Autopsy Of Jane Doe
    Review preview for The Autopsy Of Jane Doe

    Øvredal takes a handful of old tricks - a cheery song playing unexpectedly, lights blinking out in a corridor one by one, the tinkling of a bell - and uses them to chilling effect. The result is a film you really won't want to watch alone.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Father and son coroners get more than they bargained for when they examine a cadaver.
  • I Am Not A Serial Killer
    Review preview for I Am Not A Serial Killer

    I Am Not A Serial Killer strikes rhythmic beats with precision as the story progresses.

    Paul Risker · 4 out of 5
    A teenage sociopath tries to hunt down a killer.
  • The Wailing
    Review preview for The Wailing

    There is less concern here with logic than with mood.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    When a stranger arrives in a village, a sickness begins to spread.
  • Creepy
    Review preview for Creepy

    To assume it's just another routine serial killer yarn is to miss the emotional subtlety and sharp analysis of contemporary Japanese mores that underlie the greater horror.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    An ex-cop is drawn into a missing persons case.
  • The Love Witch
    Review preview for The Love Witch

    There is smoke, there is a cauldron, there is an altar of sorts and there is a not very Grand Wizard who looks like someone who has crawled out from inside a bin lorry.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Sixties-style film sees a witch use spells to win the hearts of men.
  • Maniac
    Review preview for Maniac

    It’s flashy and glossy where the original was fetid and grubby, winking at the audience where Lustig wallowed in the misery to memorable effect.

    David Graham · 3 out of 5
    First-person perspective chiller about a serial killer with a fetish for scalping.
  • The New York Ripper
    Review preview for The New York Ripper

    Lucio Fulci's audaciously sleazoid slasher is designed to provoke as much outrage as possible, but it also just about cuts it as a classically-styled giallo thriller.

    David Graham · 3 out of 5
    The surviving victim of a serial killer becomes embroiled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
  • The Beyond
    Review preview for The Beyond

    The inventiveness of the crew and Lucio Fulci's singular vision raise it well above most genre work of the period and make it well worth checking out.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A woman inherits a New Orleans hotel with a sinister secret, and horror commences.

A–Z of Abertoir 2016 reviews