ABATTOIR – FANTALK II

You’re welcome to another Fantalk episode. Really, I didn’t think that I would be writing this article because we already have a sneak peek article (https://witnessgospelreviews.movie.blog/2019/03/26/latest-mount-zion-film-abbatoir-sneak-peek/) and a review of the making of Abattoir (https://witnessgospelreviews.movie.blog/2019/06/06/a-review-of-abattoir-the-making/) published last year. You can click the links to read both articles.

So, I’d seen the poster picture uploaded online last Wednesday but you know, when I saw the trailer, I knew I had to write a more recent piece on it.

What makes this trailer more important is that it offers us more than what we thought Abattoir was about before. First, it has been stated that it would be a weekly episodic movie which would start showing from Sunday, July 5, and would continue for five Sundays after it – six parts in all. So, it’s not a single movie which we’ll watch at one sitting but something we’ll enjoy over a period of time.

Also, when I saw the movie poster, I fell in love with it. Three main characters are on it – Moses Korede Are, Kayode Owojori and Damilola Mike-Bamiloye, but guess who’s most prominent? Kayode Owojori. From the teaser released last year, it had looked as though it would mainly be about Damilola’s character but this poster suggests that their stories are intertwined and Abattoir may be about Kayode Owojori’s The Chief’s character as much as Damilola’s character. And then, look at the design of his portrait; it was kind of a live picture embellished with digital portraiture. More impressive was the fact that the shot in the trailer looks the same way.

And then on the side, we see Daramola Kayode Bablola’s Big Daddy and he seems to be in a certain cult with The Chief. We see him a couple of times in the trailer which shows he’s not merely a bit-part character. We also see that Folashade Airebamen is in this movie, probably as the wife of The Chief.

Lastly, the theatrical trailer reveals a definite tonal shift from the teaser released online last year. That one was so light-hearted but this one, dark, even scary. This just shows that there’s a lot to the Abattoir series. I’m really excited because it’s been a year or so that we first saw the teaser trailer; thank God, it’s finally here.
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Till the next article, stay blessed.