It might be November but the weather is still fine in Aberystwyth as their genre film festival, Abertoir, turns campsite in theme to celebrate their entry to teenagerdom. There are bound to be echoes of “Ki, ki, ki; ma, ma, ma” with a Welsh accent ringing throughout the Arts Centre venue as creator of the Friday the 13th, Sean S. Cunningham, attend as guest of honor. Amongst other camp counselor duties, he’ll be at hand for a Filmmaking Masterclass (free for Aberystwyth University Theatre, Film and Television students), In Conversation Event as well as influencing the programming of movie titles in selection. Take a look below at the full line up of films playing over the next few days and throughout the weekend. Don’t miss the legendary off-site movie excursion, which this year will be Friday the 13th Part 3 in 3D.
All the information around the film festival can be found at www.abertoir.co.uk or on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram.
Wednesday, 14th November
10:30 The Tokoloshe
12:20 Occult Bolshevism – UK PREMIERE
14:00 Do Serial Killers Really Exist? A Presentation by Gavin Baddeley
15:15 Offsite Screening: Friday the 13th Part 3 in 3D
19:40 Tumbbad
21:30 Pub Quiz
00:00 Slumber Party Massacre
Thursday, 15th November
11:30 Blue My Mind
13:30 Cut and Run: A Brief History of the Slasher – a presentation by Steve Jones
15:00 Short Films Competition Part 1 (see below for films screening)
18:15 Last Man on Earth with Animat Live Soundtrack
20:30 Cam
22:30 The Black Forest – UK PREMIERE
00:30 Bloody Moon
Friday, 16th November
11:00 Summer of 84
13:10 My Bloody Valentine
15:30 Short Films Competition Part 2 (see below for films screening)
18:00 Friday the 13th
19:45 Sean S. Cunningham in conversation with Stephen Thrower
22:45 The Last House on the Left
00:30 Party Hard, Die Young – UK PREMIERE
Saturday, 17th November
11:00 Sean S. Cunningham’s The Nurse with the Purple Hair
12:00 Sean S. Cunningham – Filmmaking Masterclass
15:00 Nicko and Joe’s Bad Film Club
17:30 One Cut of the Dead
19:30 Assassination Nation
21:45 Prom Night
23:15 Camp Abertoir Valentine’s Prom Night
Sunday, 18th November
12:30 Abrakadabra
14:30 Silent Shorts Vol IV
16:45 Scala Forever! A Presentation by Jane Giles
18:30 Anna and the Apocalypse
20:30 The Elvis Dead
Short Films Competition Screening Blocks
Screening Thursday, 15th November at 3pm
Baghead (Alberto Corredor Marina, UK 2017, 15 minutes)
Caronte (Luis Tinoco, Spain 2017, 15 minutes)
Reprisal (Mike Malajalian, Lebanon 2017, 10 minutes)
Miedos (Germán Sancho Celestino, Spain 2018, 9 minutes)
Post-Mortem Mary (Joshua Long, Australia 2017, 10 minutes)
Who’s That At The Back of the Bus? (Philip Hardy, UK 2018, 5 minutes)
FlyTrap (Connor Bland, USA 2018, 7 minutes)
Centrifugado (Mireia Noguera, Spain 2017, 11 minutes)
Sunscapades (Ben Mitchell, UK/Canada 2018, 6 minutes)
Screening Friday 16th November, 3:30pm
The Blizzard (Alvaro Rodriguez Areny, Andorra 2018, 12 minutes)
Clean As You Like (Theresa Varga, UK 2018, 15 minutes)
Home (Paul Gustavsen, Norway 2018, 9 minutes)
The Dollmaker (Al Lougher, USA 2017, 10 minutes)
Here There Be Monsters (Drew Macdonald, Australia 2018, 15 minutes)
Zombie Time (Alfonso Fulgencio, Spain 2018, 6 minutes)
Milk (Santiago Menghini, Canada 2018, 9 minutes)
La Noria (Carlos Baena, Spain 2018, 12 minutes)
Skickelsen (Jonas Gramming, Sweden 2017, 15 minutes)
