Film Review - Abigail (2024)

Abigail is the new horror film by the team called Radio Silence who directed the 2 most recent Scream films and 2019’s fun horror film Ready or Not and this movie concerns a group of people (Melissa Barrera, Kevin Durand, Dan Stevens, Angus Cloud and Kathryn Newton) who kidnap a little girl (Alisha Weir) from her wealthy father at the expense of Lambert (Giancarlo Esposito) but this little girl is not who her kidnappers think she is.

Abigail is a lot of fun and is much more in line with the tone and feel of Ready or Not than the Scream films Radio Silence made and more than once I had a big smile on my face as this movie has a lot of fun with its horror premise and its one location of a large house similar to Ready or Not and it really works well.

What also works well is the main cast, Barrera I have loved since In the Heights and while it was very disappointing to she her dumped from the Scream franchise recently she shows here why that decision was even more stupid as she does a lot with what could be a thin role on the page and she has a great screen presence with just her eyes and facial expressions, Durand really needs to play Elon Musk in the biopic about him because the likeness is uncanny and he too is good as are Stevens and Esposito in their roles though Cloud and Newton weren’t as good as their performances did very little for me.

But little Alisha Weir is the real standout here and she does a lot with this character and I won’t say too much more than that as the surprises with her character are fun to discover but she does a great job with them.

And so that was Abigail and horror fans will have a lot of fun with this one as I did, 3 and a half out of 5.