Canadian Film Collective RKSS’s (François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell), Summer of ’84 proved to be a popular entry on the UK festival circuit throughout 2018. With its comparisons to Stranger Things despite the film rumoured to have been in production first, the adolescent thriller carved itself an instantaneous appeal to genre audiences and […]
Blue My Mind opened the third day of the festival. A beautifully mesmerizing yet complex coming-of-age tale from Switzerland. Blue My Mind captured the hearts of the Abertoir audience coming in at fourth place in the audience vote for new feature films.
Jerome Pikwane’s astonishing debut feature, The Tokoloshe (AKA. Repression) opened the second day of the festival. A slow brewing fable mixed with dark realism, The Tokoloshe is one of 2018’s most interesting and culturally bound genre films. Having previously covered the film for the site back in August 2018, my full review can be read, […]
Appropriately announced on the 13th August 2018, plans are now in full swing for The Abertoir Horror Festival’s 13th Year…and you guessed it…festival organisers Gaz Bailey and Nia Edwards-Behi are treating festival attendees to six days of Slasher Movie Mayhem for this year’s theme.
A lesser-known giallo movie kick-started the third day of the festival. Antonio Bido’s ‘The Bloodstained Shadow’ is a worthy entry into the notable Italian sub-genre despite its little known status. Made in 1978, ‘The Bloodstained Shadow’ contains the expected bizarreness that avid giallo viewers have become accustomed to, including a serpentine plot, dodgy characters, questionable […]
Instead of watching films on the big screen first thing on the second day of the festival, I made my acting debut in an independent short shot down on Aberystwyth’s iconic sea front. Widower, directed by South Wales based filmmaker Tom Hughes will be available online by December the 12th.
