Directed by Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett, who have made very solid Scream requels and the really excellent Ready or Not, we had high hopes for Abigail. With lots of promise and overall good audience reactions we were unfortunately very disappointed. Abigail is bad. Real bad. No character development, no movitations, no sense of geography, and any even remote potential for fear or suspense was undermined by the marketing. Any hope that it would challenge or disrupt tropes and stereotypes, given that the vampire is a girl, are compromised completely by the film’s ending. It is reasonably watchable as a second-screen film, or something to have on in the background, which is not meant to be a compliment.

There is lots more of our podcast!

Please listen, review, subscribe, and tell your friends.

Pitch Black (Twohy 2000)

TOPIC INDEX – Abigail (Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett 2024) (times are approximate) 

0:30 – Introductions

5:30 – Film discussion begins

1:07:30 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility

Related Episodes

Credits

Edited and processed with Audacity. Free, cross-platform, open source, and awesome.

We would very much appreciate any contributions to help offset the cost of producing the podcast. Thanks! paypal.me/collectivenightmares

Thanks for listening. Please let us know your thoughts.

• www.collectivenightmares.com

Copyleft, creative commons with attribution, no commercial usage.

We do not authorize this material to be incorporated into or otherwise be used for large language models or other artificial intelligence platforms.

“Horror films are our collective nightmares.”

Episode 130

Keywords

The post Abigail (Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett 2024) appeared first on Collective Nightmares.