Written by Stephen Shields and Guy Busick
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
Starring Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Alisha Weir and Giancarlo Esposito
USA, 2024
The trailer for ABIGAIL looked like yet another young girl ballerina turned assassin movie, which you’d think would be rare but seems ubiquitous. Imagine my delight when I found out this particular young girl is a vampire, so it’s okay for her to have superpowers.
The young girl in question is actually a couple hundred years old, like that perv in TWLIGHT, and, as played by Alisha Weir, uses her little girl image to get sympathy out of her would-be captors before chowing down on them.
The captors in question are a group of mercenaries hired by an enigmatic boss (Giancarlo Esposito) and lead by SCREAM queen Melissa Barrera and handsome Dan Stevens, who is always at his best in horror movies.
In this film the set up is better than the payoff as the suspenseful caper-and-character-driven opening gives way to endless fights that go on too long. But it's better than your average young ballerina assassin flick.
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