AbigailTakes a Bloody Delightful Bite Out of the Vampire Genre

Like Leigh Whannell ’s 2020 reimagining of The Invisible Man , Abigailproves that you do n’t ask a bigger Dark Universe to make bloody good repugnance moving-picture show as part of Universal ’s legacy in the genre . The latest from Radio Silence ( Ready or Not , Scream ) takes vampire traditional knowledge to a fun and exciting raw story .

Abigail ’s premise centers on a band of bend who get hired to snatch a very orphic and important man ’s daughter . There ’s an fantabulous gang stage set - up enter each appendage of the crew in a measure scene where Melissa Barrera ’s character reads everyone to filth without knowing their genuine names — it ’s very Hitchcockian . But the tables twist when they get for their night of “ babysitting ” and realize Abigail is no average child , she ’s a freakin ’ ballerina vampire … and her male parent is none other than Dracula conk out by another name ( it ’s not really a plunderer ) . The corps de ballet , led by Scream ’s Barrera and featuring Dan Stevens , Kathryn Newton , Kevin Durand , William Catlett , and Angus Cloud , really go through hell at the hands of a kid lamia . These worker know the kind of movie they ’re in , and tilt into the humor and the repulsion .

But since every character is a villain in the respectable way , you ’ll recover yourself rooting for both slope . Alisha Weir as Abigial is destined to become a repulsion ikon like M3GAN before her . She is such as badass and serves in every shot she ’s in . Between the dancing and the throat slashing we ’ve never seen a small fry have that much fun being scarey - cute on screen . Among the grownup , Stevens , Barrera , and Newton stand out — they ground the film but also go for it when things get really furious . This triad are some of the in effect in work in genre movie today .

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Radio Silence — Matt Bettinelli - Olpin and Tyler Gillett — again deliver an unexpected trip that rend into a refreshing take on horror with their signature tune saturnine humor and full - tilt bloody furiousness . It was great to see the directors reunify with Barrera now that all have departed from the Scream enfranchisement , and hopefully this partnership will retain in the future . Abigail is such a eruption and a gem - stale certified good time — it ’s definitely cement a station on the list of this year ’s good repulsion moving-picture show . Do n’t pretermit it !

Abigail opens tomorrow , April 19 .

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