With just six weeks to go until this year’s festival, it’s about time we revealed a bit more of this year’s programme!

Dead Talents Society is easily one of the programming team’s favourite films this year and we can’t wait to share it with you all! This surprisingly moving comedy follows a rag-tag group of ghosts who have one talent in sight: to be the scariest. The film is already making waves at home in Taiwan and beyond, recently scoring 11 Golden Horse Award nominations, and already claiming a spot in Letterboxd’s top horror of 2024 list.

Frankie Freako is the latest film from Steves Kostanski (Psycho Goreman, Manborg), with Connor Sweeney taking the lead as an unsuspecting yuppie facing off with a rock’n’roll goblin invading his home. Taking ample inspiration from some of the best 80s horror puppetry, Frankie Freako is a delight from start to finish.

We’re delighted to include a double-whammy of Severin-produced documentaries at this year’s festival, Exorcismo and Suzzanna: The Queen Of Black Magic.

In Exorcismo, director Alberto Sedano explores the history behind ‘Clasificada S’, when sex on screen went from repressed sin to a cinematic expression of political freedom. A film that allows us to indulge in some of the real greats of Spanish exploitation while also being a rallying cry against the heavy hand of fascism.

Suzzanna is a portrait of  ‘The Queen of Indonesian Horror’, long-beloved by the Asian world yet virtually unknown outside it. Charting her incredible career as well as her dramatic personal life, David Gregory (Enter the Clones of Bruce) shines some much needed light on this compelling icon of cinema.

We have one more classic to reveal too, and our poster tease gave it away, so here’s confirming that this year’s Vincent Price classic is indeed Return of the Fly (1959)!

We’ve so much more in store – give us just a few more weeks and we’ll be able to unveil our full Abertoir 2024 line-up, as well as our Choice Cuts programme!