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Abertoir — A–Z of films

2018

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  • Anna And The Apocalypse
    Review preview for Anna And The Apocalypse

    Any film that has both a fight director and a dance choreographer is probably doing something right.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    When the zombie apocalypse hits the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - teenager Anna and her high school friends have to fight, sing and dance to survive, with the undead horde all around them.
  • Assassination Nation
    Review preview for Assassination Nation

    Older viewers may find it too much but it's spot on for what it's trying to achieve.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    This is a 1000 percent a true story about how the quiet, all-American town of Salem, absolutely lost its mind.
  • Blue My Mind
    Review preview for Blue My Mind

    An astonishing debut.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    When a teenager who has trouble with her parents moves to Zurich with them, she starts to walk on the wild side.
  • Bloody Moon
    Review preview for Bloody Moon

    It is notable that for every slasher trope there also seems to be a giallo one.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 2.5 out of 5
    A killer targets the students at a language school.
  • Cam
    Review preview for Cam

    Screenwriter Isa Mazzei is a former camgirl herself and it shows in the film’s focus on the business side of proceedings, but director Daniel Goldhaber extends her work in a much stranger direction.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A sex cam worker finds that her identity has been appropriated by a mysterious doppelgänger.
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  • Friday the 13th
    Review preview for Friday the 13th

    Friday The 13th is a well made but fairly unremarkable film. What about it could so incense the white male American critic?

    Donald Munro · 3 out of 5
    A series of vicious murders occurs at a summer camp.
  • Friday The 13th: Part 3
    Review preview for Friday The 13th: Part 3

    Has a lighter tone and different feel from the others.

    Gator MacReady · 4 out of 5
    A teenage adventure yarn, masquerading as a horror flick, with hillbilly Jason doing the honours.
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  • In Fabric
    Review preview for In Fabric

    You might not think you're in the mood for buying, but his extravagant sales pitch is likely to win you over by the end.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Two stories about a cursed dress and its victims.
  • The Last House On The Left
    Review preview for The Last House On The Left

    A deliberately cruel and vicious experience.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    The attackers of two teenage girls inadvertently take refuge with their parents and face a terrible revenge.
  • The Last Man On Earth
    Review preview for The Last Man On Earth

    Well established as a player of scholarly roles with a hint of madness, Price fits the original character of this story better than anyone else.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
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  • One Cut Of The Dead
    Review preview for One Cut Of The Dead

    A film that understands its audience exceptionally well.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Shooting a zombie movie in one take is harder than you think...
  • Piercing
    Review preview for Piercing

    Without a doubt, Pesce is one of the most exciting young directors to emerge in recent years.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A man seeks out an unsuspecting stranger to help him purge the dark torments of his past. His plan goes awry when he encounters a woman with plans of her own. A playful psycho-thriller game of cat-and-mouse.
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  • Tumbbad
    Review preview for Tumbbad

    If we have, ourselves, become greedy to know exactly what the secret is by this point, Barve certainly does not disappoint.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A greedy boy seeks out hidden riches in the dungeon beneath an ancestral house guarded by a terrifying deity.
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  • The Wind
    Review preview for The Wind

    Teresa Sutherland's script finds Gothic tensions in a landscape where the imaginary has as much power to harm as the real.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    On the Western frontier of the United States of America in the late 1800s, a plains-woman is driven mad by the harshness and isolation of the untamed land.