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‘Abigail’ Review: Melissa Barrera And Dan Stevens Battle Dracula’s Child In Cheeky Vampire Flick
A review of 'Abigail' , a new take on Universal's Dracula franchise which sets the Vamipire's 12 year old ballerina daughter against her kidnappers
Alisha Weir, morphing into the most terrifying child since Linda Blair got an Oscar nomination for doing it in 1973’s The Exorcist, is the title star who becomes the victim of a kidnapping plot by a group of badass, but kinda dumb, criminals enlisted by Lambert ( Giancarlo Esposito in for a couple of scenes) who has been hired to bring them together by an unseen but fearsome crime boss in order to snatch Abigail and demand a $50 million dollar ransom to be paid by her very wealthy father. They include the intense and frenetic Frank ( Dan Stevens), the flighty blonde Sammy ( Kathryn Newton), Rickles ( Will Catlett), Peter ( Kevin Durand), and Dean ( Angus Cloud), all as it turns out with backgrounds that belie their collective lack of intelligence when asked to work as one on this mission. Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (aka Radio Silence), who managed to freshen up the tired Scream franchise over the last two installments and are also responsible for the original Ready Or Not, show a real flair for injecting humor and horror in equal doses into the proceedings and really keep this thing building to the inevitable crescendo required of such a premise.
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