This week L and I watched a lot of stuff. We started off with this movie Abigail. It is about this group of people that kidnap the wrong damn girl. Abigail is just minding her business doing ballerina stuff and is picked up by her chauffeur. She heads home talking on the phone not realizing that her house is full of criminals of varying degrees of professionalism. They take her from her home and to another location where this dude Lambert tells them she is being held hostage by her wealthy father. He will have 24 hours to pay $50 million to get her back. The group get fake names and are all a hot mess in different ways.
I will be intentionally vague at the start of this. Dean is the driver and seems like he is on drugs and out of it. Frank acts like he is the leader. Joey is a medic of some kind. Sammy is a young girl that does the computer stuff. Rickles is a sniper. Peter is the muscle. They tie up Abigail and downstairs Joey gets a hundred bucks for everything she can guess right about everyone in the room but refuses to reveal anything about herself. Joey has to take care of Abigail and goes to speak to her. Abigail says that her cuffs and blindfold hurt so Joey removes the blindfold and moves her cuffs to the front. Nope. Abigail says they will get no money because her father doesn't care about her like that.
Frank gets pissed and puts a gun to her head after walking into the room with no mask on and demands to know who her dad is. She says Kristof Lazaar and Frank is like “Fuck this! I am leaving!” Turns out her dad is some insane criminal. Dean heads downstairs poking around and ends up getting his head ripped off by someone. Sammy finds him dead and they realize that they are locked in the house. Next Rickles gets killed. The ones that are still alive go to confront Abigail and she reveals that she is a damned vampire! They freak the hell out and Peter refuses to believe vampires are real. I get it.
The rest of the movie is everyone fighting to stay alive and/or kill this girl. They try to see what works like garlic, crosses, or sunlight. I really enjoyed this movie. It reminded me of 80s horror movies where even though there were a lot of assholes and it was cool to see the killer take them out, there was one or two people that I cheered for and wanted to survive. These days it is a group of assholes and you just want everyone to get killed in interesting ways. We watched this on Peacock which is why a lot of people aren't talking about it. That channel is ass and its hard to find something to watch.
Alisha Weir as Abigail
Melissa Barrera as Joey
Dan Stevens as Frank
Kathryn Newton as Sammy
Will Catlett as Rickles
Kevin Durand as Peter
Angus Cloud as Dean
Giancarlo Esposito as Lambert
Matthew Goode as Father
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