Abattoir is a 2016 American horror film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and starring Dayton Callie, Jessica Lowndes, Joe Anderson, Lin Shaye, and Jay Huguley.

[3][4] Real estate journalist Julia Talben (Jessica Lowndes) feels unsatisfied with her current writing assignments, more interested in crime reporting, but finds some comforts in her relationship with her sister Amanda and nephew Charlie, and maintains an amicable relationship with former lover and local detective Declan Grady (Joe Anderson).

Julia rushes to Amanda's house, finding the shocking scene in Charlie's bedroom, while Grady apprehends an oddly-compliant Renshaw.

However, Kyle recounts a similar sale earlier in his career where an elderly man bought a high rise with a recent murder and removed the room where the crime had taken place, selling the property at a loss shortly after.

Julia and Grady perform a title search, finding shell company named Revelation Holdings bought six other properties over a 50-year period, each with a room removed after a recent tragic event.

Julia interviews the current owners of the properties, confirming the stories took place in each removed room, and Crone was connected to each purchase.

The package contains a VHS tape that seems to depict her family's murder, but Julia notices the walls in the background aren't connected to the house.

Visiting the address, Julia meets current resident Allie, who informs her that her birth mother died of cancer three decades prior.

Crone calls to build "a house of many rooms" to restore New English, and Allie explains that the townspeople followed him, committing more atrocities and pledging themselves to his cause.

Realizing the town intends to take her as a sacrifice now, Grady and Julia begin to leave, but are stopped by a crowd of townspeople, including Crone himself.

They find jars containing written pledges from residents promising to offer their children as sacrifices, confirming their suspicions that a school fire that killed the child population was intentional.

The sheriff manages to physically overpower them, but rather than take them out of town, he brings them to the docks, claiming that by killing Julia there, he will spare her from Crone's plan in the forest.

At the front door, Crone offers Julia the opportunity to leave New English and share the story without an ending, or to enter of her own free will and find her family.

Julia enters the house, where she sees that each room is haunted by the spirits of the people who died inside, reliving their respective tragedies over and over.

"[12] A sequel to Abattoir, titled The Dwelling, was announced in May 2016, with Bousman set to write and direct and Callie to reprise his role as Jebediah Crone.