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What If We Didn’t Know Abigail Was a Vampire Movie?
Oh, sorry, did I just ruin it?
The new horror film Abigail follows a group of kidnappers who capture a rich man’s daughter after ballet rehearsal and stash her away in a safe house, whereupon they discover that the little girl (played by Alisha Weir) is a vampire, and that they’re actually locked in there with her, not the other way around. The young Irish actress Weir (who made such an impression in the recent Matilda remake) strikes a convincingly helpless pose up until that point, and once Abigail lets go, her loose-limbed, surreally pirouetting savagery sends the picture spinning in a bloody new direction. There’s Frank (Dan Stevens), a former detective who went corrupt; Sammy (Kathryn Newton), a thrill-seeking rich-girl hacker; Rickles (Will Catlett), a former marine; Peter (Kevin Durand), a muscle-bound former mob goon who looks like someone tried to Brundlefly Elon Musk and an aging Arnold Schwarzenegger; and Dean (Angus Cloud), an intellectually challenged sociopathic getaway driver.
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