Summary
Abigail is about a ballerina assassin who also happens to be a vampire. The movie starts out by playing its crime story straight. After they play their crime angle straight for the first half, they treat the vampire reveal like a shocking twist. The movie is more like Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s earlier movie Ready or Not than like any other vampire movie. The cast manages to sell even the lamest jokes with their perfect delivery. The one true weak point in the otherwise stellar cast is Melissa Barrera (Scream 6, In the Heights), who’s tasked with playing Joey. The soul of Abigail comes, ironically, from its vampiric title character, played with equal parts venom, cleverness, and vulnerability by Alisha Weir. Abigail’s most impressive quality is how perfectly measured it feels at every turn. Like Lina Leandersson in that movie, Weir is particularly good at selling a child vampire’S genuine pain.
