Join us on October 24 to celebrate Jimmy Sangster, one of the legends of classic British horror. Born in Kinmel Bay and educated in Cardiff, Sangster

It’s been several months since we shared the news that we’d be doing things a bit differently in 2026. We shared that we were taking it down a notch, that

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve joined forces with another of Wales’ great film festivals, Cardiff Animation Festival!

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We’re pleased to announce that we’ve joined forces once more with our good friends WOW Film Festival to bring a spooky bit of world cinema to the big

Team Abertoir’s been taking a breather after our massive 20th anniversary edition and we’ve made a decision: we’re taking it down a notch for 2026. We’re

Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani's kaleidoscopic mystery REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND dreams up the Eurospy genre as hallucinatory half-memory

Franju's Eyes Without A Face occupies uncharted territories somewhere between gothic horror, fairytale lyricism and the charnel-house realism.

Half-Japanese schoolgirl is inexorably pursued by her own sense of alienation, in this dirty gem of a horror debut - world premiere takes place at the 33rd edition of Raindance

Putting the gory in allegory, George A. Romero's The Crazies shows the madness of the Vietnam war in all its viral contagion.

Yuriyan Retriever's hilarious take on J-horror and the body myth MAG MAG insists you not spurn the implacable erotomaniac(s) at its heart

Dario Argento's favourite of his own films Phenomena (aka Creepers) is a phantasmagorical horror headtrip truly worth going ape about.

Josh Johnson & Grayson Tyler Johnson's doc THE DEGENERATE: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN places an outsider filmmaker centre stage

Addison Heimann's sort-of sex comedy sci-fi TOUCH ME is an allegorical account of circular addictions, needy narcissism & tentacular trauma