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Wales' number one horror festival is back for another spooktastic November with Friday The 13th director Sean S Cunningham as its special guest and a selection of scary films that's guaranteed to please. This year's big focus is on classic slasher movies but it also features some of the most highly acclaimed horror films found on the festival circuit this year.
The festival runs from 13 to 18 November.
View previous years coverage of the Abertoir festival:
Abertoir Latest Reviews
Shooting a zombie movie in one take is harder than you think...
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.
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.
This is a 1000 percent a true story about how the quiet, all-American town of Salem, absolutely lost its mind.
A greedy boy seeks out hidden riches in the dungeon beneath an ancestral house guarded by a terrifying deity.
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
Two stories about a cursed dress and its victims.
A sex cam worker finds that her identity has been appropriated by a mysterious doppelgänger.
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.
When a teenager who has trouble with her parents moves to Zurich with them, she starts to walk on the wild side.
Abertoir Features
Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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