Abattoir

Name: Abattoir
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Released: December 9, 2016
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 40
Cast: Dayton Callie, Jessica Lowndes, Joe Anderson, Lin Shaye

2016

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Momentum Pictures | Release Date: December 9, 2016 | R

Starring: Dayton Callie, Jessica Lowndes, Joe Anderson, Lin Shaye

Summary: An investigative reporter works to solve the mystery behind a mysterious man who has been buying houses where tragedies have occurred. Set in a world where it always feels like night, even in daylight hours, real estate reporter Julia Talben’s life is turned upside down when her family is brutally murdered. It is believed to be an open andAn investigative reporter works to solve the mystery behind a mysterious man who has been buying houses where tragedies have occurred. Set in a world where it always feels like night, even in daylight hours, real estate reporter Julia Talben’s life is turned upside down when her family is brutally murdered. It is believed to be an open and close case, but Julia quickly realizes there is much more to this story when she returns to the crime scene to find the murder room deconstructed and physically removed from her sister’s home. This ignites an investigative pursuit that eventually leads her and ex-lover Detective Declan Grady to the town of New English where they find the enigmatic Jebediah Crone and the Abattoir - a monstrous house stitched together with unending rooms of death and the damned. Julia comes to realize that her sister’s soul is trapped inside, but the Abattoir isn’t just a house - it’s a door to something more evil than anyone could have ever imagined. Julia and Grady are ultimately faced with the question: How do you build a haunted house? One room at a time.… Expand

Director: Darren Lynn Bousman

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 98 min

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Kim Newman

Dec 8, 2016

Abattoir gets past its clunky storytelling with a great look - dark, shadowed, with a 1940s hardboiled feel - along with some well-staged shocks and scares. Read full review

John DeFore

Dec 8, 2016

While Bousman's climax is a not terribly original effects-laden haunted house, the house's builder, and his motives, have enough of their own flavor to please a hardened horror fan. Read full review

Martyn Conterio

Dec 8, 2016

Abattoir doesn't have a jaw-dropping...shock scene, but the ending does pack an emotional punch, of a type so few and far between in the annals of horror cinema. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Dec 10, 2016

Thankfully Bousman’s endgame does deliver the supernatural slaughterhouse of the title to great effect with inspired spectral victims looped in suspended animation. It’s so memorably jarring that you wonder if the whole was just sloppily reverse engineered from this massive undertaking. Read full review

Noel Murray

Dec 8, 2016

Ultimately, this film has a memorable villain and a stunning location, and not much else. Read full review

Matt Donato

Dec 7, 2016

Abattoir feels like it should still have an "Under Construction" sign warning viewers of the unfinished business to come. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Dec 9, 2016

The dialogue isn’t just awkward and unbelievable — it’s as if it was written by a teenager raised on only bad horror movies. Read full review

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