We regularly talk to you about the new features of streaming platforms, especially with regard to their own productions. Once is not custom, this time, we are interested in a film which is not the property of a SVOD service, but which is part of the share of limited duration. And Netflix would have been wrong to deprive itself of it, since the feature film has not yet a week on the counter, which he firmly occupies the third place in the classification of the most viewed works of the moment. And he should go up again.
Released in theaters last year, he did not benefit from immense success in theaters. Certainly, $ 42 million won In the world for a budget twice lower, this is not what we can consider as a failure. Except that it is a horror film and that the number of his comrades of the genre having accomplished more for even less cost is no longer counted. However, with 83% positive opinion on Rotten Tomatoes (Press and audience), he knew how to please the curious and he still proves it on Netflix today. If you want the terror tinged with a lot, a lot of fun, Abigail is made for you and we explain why.
Abigail synopsis
A group of criminals who do not know each other has been entrusted with a very simple mission, at least in appearance. Kidnap the little daughter of a powerful misunderstanding and keeping her locked up In a mansion time to perceive a ransom of $ 50 million. The mission of a single night.
However, the night promises to be very long. The kidnappers begin to disappear one by a And the locked and terrorized girl may not be that innocent.
A horror film to bite to the fullest
Have you seen Wedding Nightmare ? If not, we strongly advise you to throw yourself on this film, also available on Netflix or on Disney+. If so, then you know what the directors Matt bettinelli-olpin et tyler gillett are capable. Certainly, we could also quote the reboot of Scream et Scream VI In their recent work, but we are not the greatest defenders of the two works, weighed down by the inheritance of Wes Craven.
With Abigailthe duo finds this freedom of action and this bad spirit which they had shown on Wedding Nightmare. It is surely not a coincidence if the events take place in a large rich building. The feature is, thus, Not really a horror film in the most nightmarish sense of the term, preferring to play codes to offer us a surplus of fun. Yes, there are gore scenes in the film, but it’s funnier to see people exploding in liters of blood than making us jump with easy Jump Scare.
The directors’ paw is This style halfway between horror and comedyeach drawing their strength from the other. Our group of victims criminals is written so that we want who is happening to them, without being taken too seriously. Kevin Durand is physically imposing, but not the sharpest knife of the drawer. And Stevens A character plays us whose excessive self -centeredness amuses and frightens at the same time. Melissa Barrera proves that she does not need the saga Scream (which she was thanked) to exist in genre cinema. And The young Alisha Weir is an energy ball that devours everything in her path.
Abigail holds as much a good child as the dirty kid (the film like the protagonist by the way) and if he does not succeed everything, far from it, We feel all the pleasure behind the film, of its authors as well as its actors. We are not in a pure terror film, we are in entertainment with guts in the air. For the most vulnerable to this cinema, we can hide our eyes and keep smiling.
Abigail is a game. A cat and blood mouse game that does not take the lead and finds a malicious pleasure in tickle the vampire myth. Certainly, it is not perfect, The film often finds its balance between humor and horrornot enough and dragging enough and dragging a few lengths. Similarly, some dialogues are a little trouble and are more acting as laborious filling.
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Nevertheless, He assumes his jubilant side and his exaggeration While offering us some twists in passing. Not the most memorable work of its authors (we look forward to their Wedding Nightmare 2, in preparation), but a feature film before which We have a good time with a great castingsome nice surprises and liters of blood. And we are happy to see that he obtains the visibility he deserves on Netflix.
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