Abattoir (film)

Abattoir
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman
Produced by Jesse Berger
Brent C. Johnson
Written by Christopher Monfette
Starring Dayton Callie
Jessica Lowndes
Joe Anderson
Lin Shaye
Jay Huguley
Music by Mark Sayfritz
Cinematography Michael Fimognan
Edited by Brian J. Smith
Production
company
Distributed by Momentum Pictures[1]
Release dates
June 7, 2016 (Los Angeles Film Festival)
December 9, 2016[1]
Running time
98 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Abattoir is a 2016 American horror film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and written by Christopher Monfette based on the comic book miniseries.[2] It premiered on June 7, 2016 at the Los Angeles Film Festival.[3]

Plot

A real estate reporter investigates Jebediah Crone (Dayton Callie), a mysterious old man who is building a haunted house constructed from rooms where deaths have occurred.

Production

Production for the film began in 2014. It was announced in October 2014 that Joe Anderson, Dayton Callie, Jessica Lowndes and Lin Shaye had been cast. [4]

Comic book prequel

In 2010, Darren Bousman developed a comicbook prequel to the film from Radical Studios. The six-issue miniseries was written by Rob Levin and Troy Peteri, with art by Bing Cansino. Bousman outlined his plans with, "I want to create a universe, and this is the beginning of a universe. I don’t foresee using the comic book to be what the movie is. But it’s part of the world of what the movie will exist in, and everything will stand on its own. For example, the comic book will be its own world, its own movie, its own book, its own story. The movie will be its own world, its own story, but they will all connect. All pieces of this thing connect and tell a much bigger tale... think it’s important to lead into the movie. We came up with this as a script, as a feature film idea, but what we wanted to accomplish in the feature film was way, way, way too ambitious for a 90-minute movie. So we had to backtrack and set the world up that way." [5]

Sequel

A sequel to Abattoir titled The Dwelling was announced in May 2015, with Bousman set to write and direct and Callie to reprise his role as Jebediah Crone. [2]

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