
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 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 decons... (Full plot summary below)
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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 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.
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| The Film StageJared MobarakThankfully 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. |
| Dread CentralStaci Layne WilsonAbattoir offers a smart story, compelling performances, and a great blend of talent and technique. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyThough 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 |
| Little White LiesAnton Bitelan unwieldy property, coming with its assembly work exposed, but "what a magnificent structure" it turns out to be. Prepare to get lost in its multi-levelled madness, & to have your familiarity with horror's ever-revenant tropes deconstructed. |
| Eye for FilmJennie KermodeThis feels like an episode of Mystery Theater and will charm fans of old radio horror. |
| CineVueMartyn ConterioAbattoir 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. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeWhile 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. |
| The Hollywood NewsKat HughesAn intelligent and stylish macabre tale straight out of the world of Lovecraft or Poe, Abattoir will keep the grey matter working until the closing moments. |
| PopMattersMike WardThere's a reach on the part of Abattoir's makers that exceeds their grasp. |
| Screen InternationalKim NewmanAbattoir gets past its clunky storytelling with a great look - dark, shadowed, with a 1940s hardboiled feel - along with some well-staged shocks and scares. |