Abigail (2024)

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Abigail

Credits
Title:	Abigail
Directed by:	Matt Bettinelli-Olpin; Tyler Gillett
Written by:	Stephen Shields; Guy Busick
Produced by:	Ron Lynch; Macdara Kelleher; Paul Neinstein; Tripp Vinson; James Vanderbilt; Chad Villella; William Sherak
Music by:	Brian Tyler
Cinematography:	Aaron Morton
Edited by:	Michael P. Shawver
Production
Production:	Radio Silence Productions Project X Entertainment Wild Atlantic Pictures
Distributors:	Universal Pictures
Released:	April 7th, 2024
Rating:	R
Running time:	109 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
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Abigail is an American feature film of the vampire fiction subgenre of horror. It was directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett with a screenplay written by Stephen Shields and Guy Busick. It was produced by Universal Pictures in association with Radio Silence Productions, Wild Atlantic Pictures and Project X Entertainment. It premiered at the Overlook Film Festival on April 7th, 2024. It opened to nationwide theatrical release in the United States on April 19th, 2024. It opened in other North American, South American and European markets on the same day.

Plot[]

Abigail is a seemingly normal twelve-year-old girl who enjoys ballet dancing to "Swan Lake". She lives in a large mansion and is the daughter of a very wealthy and important individuals. A group of six criminals, none of whom have worked with one another, are hired by a mysterious employer to abduct Abigail. They break into the mansion, capture the girl and bring her back to a large estate where they meet their employer's agent - a man who calls himself Lambert. Lambert has Abigail bound and blindfolded and tucked away into one of the other rooms. He tells the six criminals that the hard part is done, and now all they must do to is wait until morning to collect their payment; $7 million for each of them. Lambert insists that none of them should share their real names with each other, so he gives them code names derived from the Rat Pack; Joey, Frank, Sammy, Peter, Dean and Don Rickles.

Lambert disappears leaving the criminals to their own devices. Joey is very intuitive and proffers forth an accurate profile of all of her confederates. She herself is a former junkie and Army medic. Frank is a former corrupt police detective. Peter is a Canadian thug, Sammy is a computer hacker, Dean is a wheel man and Rickles is a former marine.

Joey checks in on Abigail and takes a liking to the girl. This is owed largely to the fact that she has a son waiting for her at home that is roughly Abigail's age. She even loosens her bonds and removes the blindfold.

One of the others, Frank, has a take-charge attitude, and tries to maintain control over the others. He does not trust any of his confederates. Things grow tense between the group when they discover that Abigail is the daughter of an extremely powerful and immensely dangerous legendary crime lord.

Their tensions increase however as random acts of intense violence begin taking place in the mansion. They come to discover that Abigail is not a normal twelve-year-old ballerina, but is in fact a centuries old vampire. It was actually Abigail who arranged for her own abduction, and now she amuses herself by playing cat and mouse with her captors, murdering them one by one.

Cast[]

Actor

Role

Joey

Frank

Abigail Lazar

Sammy

Peter

Dean

Lambert

Kristof Lazar

Notes & Trivia[]

The tagline to this film is "Children can be such monster".
There are a total of eight credited cast members in this film.
Principal filming on Abigail began on June 30th, 2023. Filming concluded on July 31st, 2023. The movie was filmed in Dublin, Ireland.
Release of the film was delayed due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.
The setting for this film is the U.S. state of Massachusetts in the modern era. This is established by the license plate on Dean's getaway vehicle.
Actor Angus Cloud died of an accidental drug overdose on July 31st, 2023 at the age of 25. All of his scenes for Abigail had already been shot. A dedication to Angus is included in the film's closing credits.
This movie falls under the "Disproportionate black character death" film trope. While actors Melissa Barrera and Giancarlo Esposito are people of color, William Catlett is the only black actor in the film and dies fairly early on.
The ballet that Abigail dances to is Swan Lake, which was composed by Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky between 1875 and 1876. Swan Lake also appeared in the 1931 film Dracula, also by Universal Pictures, and is the only piece of music featured in the film until 1999 when an original score by Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet was added to the film.
The code names used by the criminals in this film are taken from the Rat Pack, which was a Las Vegas entertainment troupe that consisted of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. Comedian Don Rickles was considered an "unofficial" member of the group.

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Vampire films

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