Whereas we’ve lengthy recognized Radio Silence was engaged on the next film in the Universal Monsters revival, and that their Scream leading lady, Melissa Barrera, was starring—the remaining was simply rumors. Now, we’ve bought a title and a trailer that, frankly, seems to present an terrible lot away about its vampire kidnapping plot.
Even nonetheless, this trailer is superior. It has some NSFW language, however by no means has an f-bomb been extra required than when crooks are realizing they kidnapped “a fucking vampire… a ballerina vampire.” Step apart, M3GAN; it appears to be like like 2024 has its personal tween terror to reckon with.
Right here’s the official logline: “After a gaggle of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a strong underworld determine, all they should do to gather a $50 million ransom is watch the woman in a single day. In an remoted mansion, the captors begin to dwindle, one after the other, they usually uncover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no regular little woman.”
It’s a must to assume there’s extra to the film than what we see in that action-packed trailer—clearly, the kidnapping is a set-up to present Abigail some “meals” to play with, no?—and that Abigail’s “highly effective underworld determine” father (may it’s… Dracula?) will present up ultimately. It doesn’t matter what occurs, Abigail appears to be like like a ton of enjoyable, and we’d count on nothing lower than a gory good time from Radio Silence (administrators Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who additionally made Prepared or Not, 2022’s Scream, and 2023’s Scream VI). It’s written by Stephen Shields (The Gap within the Floor, Zombie Bashers) and Man Busick (Scream franchise, Prepared or Not), and as you possibly can see from the trailer has a incredible forged; apart from Barrera, it stars Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, William Catlett, Kevin Durand, and Angus Cloud, in addition to Alisha Weir because the blood-sucking ballerina, and Giancarlo Esposito as “man who organizes the heist however is undoubtedly as much as one thing extra sinister.”
Abigail hits theaters April 19, and even earlier than immediately’s large reveal it was on the very prime of our must-see record. Convey on that headless pas de deux!
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