Abigail: Movie Review

Rating: 4 out of 5.

This movie is about a 12 year old kid who was kidnapped by wanna-be kidnappers who needed money that is why they take this job to kidnap the little lady in exchange of being paid 7 Million per person, but the job is too good to be true. Little did they know, they are kept in a house with a little vampire ballerina. The true challenge is, can they survive 24hrs alive, or be eaten alive by a little kid?

The story is so surprisingly interesting, considering that they are all strangers and don’t even know each other’s real name. Along the way, they discover little by little who Abigail really is and what she really is and they owe to themselves to live after they were thrown into a trap, making them little rats for the vampire to play with.

One by one, they face the horror of their choice to join this team and they will try to survive and save themselves or each other if they still can.

The Verdict

The whole thing was crucially thought about, yes, paying 1 person millions just to kidnap a little girl? Well, that could’ve been an easy job but hell, being kept in a house for 24 hrs, thinking that you are just trying to secure your million peso until the morning, well, that’s really a too good to be true thing. Eventually, these guys discovered that they have been locked in but it took them sometime to figure out that this was a trap and they were some kind of food for the vampire.

Well, I like the plot but I kinda don’t like how some characters died. I mean, yeah, it was gruesome but it could’ve been more realistic since it is modernize horror movie but who am I to judge, right? They just get hurt instantly, in a matter of seconds so I guess that means the ballerina vampire is kinda fast and a good killer or maybe, they are just too slow to think what they can do to kill a little vampire.

And also, I wanted to know more of a back story about Abigail because there were portraits of her in the house and I love vampire stories, they could’ve included some back story or some flashbacks which might have given us that totality of the whole story. I guess the movie isn’t really for flashbacks. Oh well, all in all, I kinda like the movie, not your usual vampire movies nor your horror story so yes, it passes the horror test. This is kinda a slasher, vampire kind of genre.

For the cast, Kathryn Newton has been in and out playing horror films and suspense thriller, and I think I wanted to see her more doing rom-com roles too. I still love her in The Society.

P.S. I hope they will give this a back story coz Abigail is a little interesting and to think, this is not her first rodeo.

I’d give this 82% wonderroanne rating!

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