A young ballerina is kidnapped, but it’s the kidnappers who’ll need to find a way out.
From Universal Pictures comes a new horror movie from the team behind “Scream VI” and “Ready Or Not.” The trailer for “Abigail” shows a young ballerina being kidnapped from her home. For a handsome ransom of $50 million, the eclectic group of kidnappers must complete a single task – stay with the young child overnight, isolated in a mansion. However, they quickly realize who they’ve kidnapped is more than a young ballerina.
The official synopsis for “Abigail” is:
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.
Who is in the cast of “Abigail”?
The film stars Melissa Barrera (Scream), Dan Stevens (Legion), Kathryn Newton (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania), William Catlett (Black Lightning), Kevin Durand (Resident Evil: Retribution), Angus Cloud (Euphoria), Giancarlo Esposito (The Mandalorian), and Alisha Weir (Matilda the Musical).
“Children Can Be Such Monsters”
The trailer opened with a young ballerina coming home after ballet. As she settles inside her bedroom, an unsuspecting Abigail is kidnapped by a masked kidnapper.
Now inside an isolated mansion, the group of kidnappers are tasked with staying inside with Abigail for 24 hours and will receive the $15 million ransom once the task is complete. Joey (Melissa Barrera) has a conversation with Abigail, assuring her that nothing will happen to her as long as she behaves. Abigail innocently asks if Joey has kids, to which she answers she has a son. Then Abigail chillingly says, “I’m sorry for what’s about to happen to you.”
It turns out, Abigail is a child vampire, and now the kidnappers are locked inside the mansion with her. Things get bloody as Abigail leaps and pirouettes, taking down the kidnappers one by one.
“Abigail” hits theaters on April 19, 2024.
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The Team Behind “Abigail”
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).
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.
