Abigail is a child ballerina from a prominent family.  One night, a team of bad guys, and girls, takes her hostage and secure her away in a secluded mansion.  Their only goal is to keep her safe until the following day and they collect a $50 million ransom. Sounds easy enough, right?

We can’t imagine the distress and fear this poor child must feel during this stressful situation.  The poor little girl must be so, so … oh wait, did we mention that she is a vampire?  A ballerina vampire…. Sorry, forgot to add that.  Today Universal Pictures released the first trailer for “Abigail“and as you can probably imagine, with our penchant for anything and EVERYTHING “vampire” related, we can’t WAIT to see this one on the big screen.

 

Children can be such monsters. After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.

From Radio Silence—the directing team of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett behind the terrifying modern horror hits Ready or Not, 2022’s Scream and last year’s Scream VI—comes a brash, blood-thirsty new vision of the vampire flick, written by Stephen Shields (The Hole in the Ground, Zombie Bashers) and Guy Busick (Scream franchise, Ready or Not).

Abigail stars Melissa Barrera (Scream franchise, In the Heights), Dan Stevens (Gaslit, Legion), Kathryn Newton (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Freaky), William Catlett (Black Lightning, True Story), Kevin Durand (Resident Evil: Retribution, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Angus Cloud (Euphoria, North Hollywood) as the kidnappers and Alisha Weir (Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, Darklands) as Abigail.

The film produced by William Sherak (Scream franchise, Ready or Not), Paul Neinstein (Scream franchise; executive producer, The Night Agent) and James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, Scream franchise) for Project X Entertainment, by Tripp Vinson (Ready or Not, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) and by Radio Silence’s Chad Vilella (executive producer Ready or Not and Scream franchise). The executive producers are Ron Lynch and Macdara Kelleher.

We love the late actor Angus Cloud so it is nice to be able to see him one more time and we’ll watch ANYTHING with Giancarlo Esposito regardless of how much time he is on the screen.  Universal’s “Abigail” flies into theaters on April 19th.