Films 2022
Abertoir 2022 Content Guide (Physical)
We want to make sure that everyone’s happy before diving into our programme of films and events. We appreciate that everyone’s different – some of you will want to go in cold, while others might…
Blacula
+Discussion with William Crain 50th Anniversary Screening
In the late eighteenth century, Prince Mamuwalde travels from Africa to Transylvania to seek Count Dracula’s help in ending the transatlantic slave trade. Instead of helping, Dracula condemns Mamuwalde to eternal life as a vampire.…
Blood Flower
UK PREMIERE
Iqbal, a teen apprentice faith healer, blames himself for the death of his mother. Crushed by guilt, he tries to ignore the supernatural powers that he failed to use to save her. Exploring the strange…
Bones
The time is 1979. Jimmy Bones is respected and loved as the neighbourhood protector. When he is betrayed and brutally murdered by a corrupt cop, Bones’ elegant brownstone becomes his tomb. Twenty-two years later, the…
Cerebrum
+Q&A with Cast and Crew
After waking up from a year-long coma, an insecure young man must fight his controlling father in order to discover what really happened to his seemingly absent mother, as the true consequences of his past…
Dark Nature
+ Q&A with Berkely Brady
After Joy leaves an abusive relationship, she needs to regroup. Stricken with flashbacks of her volatile ex six months later, her best friend Carmen encourages her to go on a special hiking retreat in the…
Dracula AD 1972
50th Anniversary Screening
It’s 1972, and in Chelsea Johnny Alucard, looking for kicks, organises a black magic ceremony in a desolate churchyard, where he seeks to rejuvenate Count Dracula from shrivelled remains. Alucard lures victims to the deserted…
Evil Eye
Nala, a 13-year-old girl from the city, travels with her family to her grandmother's home in the countryside to try to find a cure for her little sister's mysterious illness - but she'll soon find…
Gwaed ar y Sêr
A group of celebrities are scheduled to appear at a concert in a village hall. An elderly man and his choir of schoolchildren, fearing that the celebrities will steal their limelight, take drastic measures to…
Hypochondriac
Will, a young potter, has a terrible boss, but a great boyfriend and a great job. Behind the veneer of his happy present is a dark past of violence and mental illness that he is…
I Walked With a Zombie
Betsy Connell, a young nurse from Canada is sent to the Caribbean to care for the wife of plantation manager Paul Holland. The wife, named Jessica, is suffering from a mental paralysis, following a fever.…
Inferno Rosso
Who was Aristide Massaccesi, aka Joe D’amato? A genius of horror in the USA, a master of eroticism in France, the king of porn in Italy. A man with a thousand pseudonyms and many facets,…
Jethica
When Jessica's stalker suddenly surprises her in New Mexico, she seeks help from her high school best friend to get rid of him for good, with a little help from beyond the grave. Jethica is…
L'Inhumain
UK PREMIERE
Mathieu is a brilliant neurosurgeon whose perfect life is falling apart. Impending divorce, job loss, substance abuse, and a mid-life crisis are all factors that can cause him to go off the rails. The sudden…
Nosferatu
+Live Accompaniment by Neil Brand 100th Anniversary Screening
100 years ago, the silver screen bristled with terror as Count Orlok changed cinema history forever. Notoriously unauthorised, and hunted down to near extinction by Bram Stoker's widow and her lawyers, a print of the…
Satanic Hispanics
A police raid takes place on a mystery location where a brutal massacre has happened and only one survivor remains. Taken into custody, the mysterious man has some strange tales to tell whilst the clock…
Skinamarink
UK PREMIERE
Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished… We’re so excited to screen the UK premiere…
Slash/Back
Pangnirtung, Nunavut: A sleepy hamlet, nestled in the majestic mountains of Baffin Island in the Arctic Ocean, wakes up to a typical summer day. No school, no cool boys (well...except one), and 24-hour sunlight. But…
Sugar Hill
When a black nightclub entrepreneur gets taken out by the mob, his girlfriend, "Sugar" Hill, calls upon the voodoo high priest Baron Samedi to summon up the undead to carry out an unholy plan for…
The Beast Must Die
A wealthy game hunter invites a group of people to his remote mansion, suspecting one of them to be a werewolf. What follows is part-action thriller, part-gothic whodunnit, and the audience better be paying attention…
The Elderly
A heatwave has started in downtown Madrid. The sudden death of pensioner Manuel’s beloved wife becomes the catalyst for his progressive deterioration, prompting his son to take him into his home to care for him…
The Harbinger
Monique ventures out of quarantine to visit an old friend who's plagued by nightmares. She finds herself drawn into a hellish dreamscape where she must face her greatest fears - or risk never having existed…
The Menu
OPENING FILM
A young couple, Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Tyler (Nicholas Hoult), travel to a coastal island in the Pacific Northwest to eat at an exclusive restaurant, where the reclusive, globally celebrated Chef Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes)…
The Offering
+ Q&A with Oliver Park
In the wake of a young Jewish girl’s disappearance, the son of a Hasidic funeral director returns home with his pregnant wife in hopes of reconciling with his father. Little do they know that directly…
The Revelation
UK PREMIERE
Jacob, anxious and recently unemployed, moves in with his widowed mother at the start of the first lockdown, determined to protect her from the virus. Yet as his sister Magda looks on in disbelief as…
The Whip and the Body
The ghost of a sadistic nobleman attempts to rekindle his romance with his terrorized, masochistic former lover, who is unwillingly engaged to his brother. It would be remiss of us to mark Christopher Lee’s 100th…
Tombs of the Blind Dead
UK RESTORATION PREMIERE 50th Anniversary Screening
For its 50th anniversary, we’re absolutely delighted to be screening (for the first time in the UK) this brand new restoration of Tombs of the Blind Dead. Painstakingly created from a new high-definition scan of…
Venus
CLOSING FILM
A dancer steals a bag from the nightclub where she works. Pursued by a horde of thugs, she hides out in her sister's apartment. The problem is that the place where she has decided to…
Vincent Price’s Dracula: The Great Undead
FROM ORIGINAL VHS!
Raise a glass to Vincent Price as he dons his smoking jacket and invites us to join him at his castle, to learn all about the legend, the myth and the truth of horror’s most…
Voyage of the Rock Aliens
UK RESTORATION PREMIERE
A group of aliens in a guitar shaped spaceship are on the hunt to find the true source of rock ’n’ roll. After spotting teenage DeeDee (Pia Zadora) and her boyfriend Frankie (Craig Sheffer), each…
What is Buried Must Remain
When three young filmmakers set out to make a documentary about a French industrialist, accused of murdering his family, they are confronted by supernatural forces engaged in a war for the very soul of the…
Wolf Manor
+Q&A with Dominic Brunt and Joel Ferrari
Shooting a vampire flick in an old, abandoned manor house should have worked like a dream, but the film crew is out of their depth, over schedule, and desperate to get the shoot finished and…
xxxHOLiC
UK PREMIERE
Watanuki is a lonely high school student who wishes to rid himself of the ability to see spirits and lead a normal life. One day, a butterfly leads him into a peculiar shop where he…
