A group of criminals kidnaps a teenage ballet dancer, the daughter of a notorious gang leader, in order to obtain a ransom of $50 million, but over time, they discover that she is not just an ordinary girl. After the kidnappers begin to diminish, one by one, they discover, to their increasing...
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Abigail (2024) - I'm actually offended this movie wasn't better. How do you screw up a premise like this movie has? Not spoiling anything, as all of the plot is given away in the trailer, but the quick synopsis is: A group of criminals kidnap a young ballerina, the daughter of a rich and powerful man. They hold her in a secluded mansion for 24 hours, enough time for their contact to get the $50 million ransom. The kicker: the tiny dancer is actually an ancient, powerful vampire!
That should be the basis for a really fun horror film. Either make it like the original Predator - a gang of highly skilled killers have to band together and fight against a seemingly unstoppable foe who is hunting them for fun and blood - or make it a brutal old-school slasher film, where Abigail delights in hunting down and killing off this band of child-kidnapping lowlifes in a series of gory spectacles. I guess they couldn't fully decide on which way to go, so they try to have it both ways at different points - leaving the film muddled and far less than it could be. 6/10 for failing to commit to a good horror premise and wasting some solid performances, neat ideas, and a few really great scenes (the dance scene to Danzig's Blood and Tears in particular).
