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  • 2016
  • R
  • Momentum Pictures
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2016
  • R
  • Momentum Pictures
  • 1 h 38 m

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 a...

Directed By: Darren Lynn Bousman

Written By: Christopher Monfette

  • 2016
  • R
  • Momentum Pictures
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2016
  • R
  • Momentum Pictures
  • 1 h 38 m

Abattoir

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
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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 a...

Directed By: Darren Lynn Bousman

Written By: Christopher Monfette

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60
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.
By Kim Newman FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
50
Dec 8, 2016
Though it’s handsome enough to look at, Abattoir can’t quite seem to decide just how supernatural it wants to be or how meta its horror content should play
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
42
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.
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW
40
Dec 8, 2016
Ultimately, this film has a memorable villain and a stunning location, and not much else.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
38
Dec 6, 2016
The germ of an interesting idea was here, and the collection of murder rooms makes for a dazzling third act setting. But the movie flatlines every time a chewy supporting player (Michael Pare is another) isn’t on the screen.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
12
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.
By Brian Tallerico FULL REVIEW

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4.4
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33% Negative
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Production Company Dark Web Productions, Les Enfants Terribles, Backwell Productions, Luminary Entertainment, Pacific Bridge Pictures, SunJive Studios
Release Date Dec 9, 2016
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline He's been expecting you
Website https://www.facebook.com/Abattoirpage
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Awards

Hot Springs International Horror Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Los Angeles Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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