The directing team behind the last two Scream films have revealed the first look at their newest horror film, Abigail, that puts an interesting twist on the Vampire story.
While I’m not big on horror, I’m big on monster/creature feature flicks, which vampire stuff typically falls into. Plus I really enjoyed Ready or Not and the recent Scream revivals. As such, I was interested to see what they did next with Abigail:
This looks like a certified hoot. I love a good vampire slaughter, and throw in the victim is actually the monster trope? I’m sold. Looks like a blast.
After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.
From Radio Silence—the directing team of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett behind the terrifying modern horror hits Ready or Not, 2022’s Scream and last year’s Scream VI—comes a brash, blood-thirsty new vision of the vampire flick, written by Stephen Shields (The Hole in the Ground, Zombie Bashers) and Guy Busick (Scream franchise, Ready or Not).
Abigail stars Melissa Barrera (Scream franchise, In the Heights), Dan Stevens (Gaslit, Legion), Kathryn Newton (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Freaky), William Catlett (Black Lightning, True Story), Kevin Durand (Resident Evil: Retribution, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Angus Cloud (Euphoria, North Hollywood) as the kidnappers and Alisha Weir (Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, Darklands) as Abigail.
Abigail hits theaters on April 19, 2024.
