Remakes and reboots are very sadly an all to common occurrence with there being plenty of remakes , sequels and reboots coming out in just this very year alone. Yet what makes the film that i'm about to review for you all today stand out from alot of them is the fact that this film does something new and different with the film that it's rebooting and because of that it comes across as being fresh mew and different and so then join me as I review the film that sees the team behind the last two Scream films reunite with one of the stars from the last two Scream films with the film in question being called simply just "Abigail" enjoy.
The plot of this film is when a group of thiefs kidnap a young girl in the hopes of getting money from her rich father they soon discover that there's something evil larking within the girl something which they will fight of their lives against. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that;s actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as while yes the plot of the film is strikingly similar to that of Don't Breathe it does something new with the plot which does make it feel different altho the plot of this film wasn't as gripping as the plot of Late Night With The Devil was as the plot of that film had you hooked from the first minuet of the film where as it's the opposite that's true for this film with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Scream 2022 and Scream VI star Melissa Barrera as Joey and Dan Stevens as Frank. Also starring in this film is Matilda The Musical star Alisha Weir as Abigail , Will Catlett as Rickles , Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania star Kathryn Newton as Sammy , Kevin Durand as Peter , Angus Cloud as Dean , Giancarlo Esposito as Lambert and Downton Abbey star Matthew Goode as Abigail's Father.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in ll honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. Which is something that shouldn't come as surprise to absolutely anybody whatsoever as alot of this films cast have turned in some really good performances even in there bad movies there always good in them with the fact that this films directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett really knowing how to get a good performance out of all of their cast members something which they've proven to be true time and time again with the acting in this film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of all naturally with this being something that really does raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this film.
While this film is very much a vampire film the core idea of having the tables turned on the thiefs does make this film also feel alot more like Don't Breathe then it does a vampire film. With the film straight up copying the ore concept of Don't Breathe but also doing enough new things with it to make it feel new again when it really isn't and while Late Night With The Devil does get alot of love for being an original film that has it's own unique ideas this one doesn't have that going for it as it uses an idea from another film but it swaps out the blind man character with a vampire heck even one of the characters has a young relative that they have to look after but while the core idea is straight up from Don't Breathe it's what the films adds to that that makes it feel new all other again like the fact that now there's kind of a mob war going on and the fact that the person that there dealing with is a vampire yes there small things but there small things that add up to much more bigger thing that being the fact that the lead vampire is a possibly ten year old girl.
For those of you that don't know this film is very loose reimagining or reboot of the 1936 Dracula's Daughter. With the film not really having anything that makes it like the previous film apart from the fact that the main character is a vampire and that's really it which might be the smartest way for them to relaunch alot of this very unknown Universal classic as let's be real very little people would even have heard of Dracula's Daughter in the first film let alone seen it and as a result of that is the fact that nobody would turn out for a remake or sequel to it but if you were to do the film differently like they do here and put your own spin on it then you might be able to get away with it as the audience won't know the difference and who ever is making the film could then just do whatever it is that they want to do and do whatever it is that makes them a good director in the first place and not be beholden to what happened in the original film thus allowing your film to stand out more.
While the film Renfield proved that vampires can be funny and that it's possible to make a vampire movie that's both funny and scary. This film despite having directors who on there commentary tracks for there films can be funny here just don't make anything that's funny this is despite the fact that the films being billed as a horror comedy and yet it's really lacking in the actual comedy aspect of it and while yes we do get some darkly comedic funny moments in this film those are very few and far between with the film having alot more unfunny moments that just feel awkward and not needed then it does have some actually funny moments and as a result of that is the fact that we have a film that puts alot more focus on it's horror aspect then it does comedy aspect when both aspects of the film should have been treated equally and not have one being favored over the other much like what Shaun Of The Dead did where they balanced the absurd nature of that film and still gave us some really good and heartfelt scares and while this film has the scares going for it it still needs to the comedy aspect going for it and that's something that t really is lacking in.
What this film does have working in it's favor is the fact that it has some genuinely likable characters that you want to see survive until the end of the film. With even Abigail herself coming across as being a really likable character when she needs to be and being just straight up evil when she needs to to be this only makes the acting from young actress Alisha Weir all the more impressive as she has to go from extremely likable to unlikable at several points in the film and it could be argued that it's also true for Melissa Barrera's character as well as at time her character could also be seen as both likable and really unlikable as well but when the characters are meant to be really unlikable us the audience are really behind them and we want to see them succeed even when everything goes wrong and yet even when there acting really unlikable due to the reasons that they all give for them acting the way that they act they all still seem like really likable characters who have been put in a bad place and are just doing what they thing is the right thing to do at that point in time.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour ad forty four seconds and thirty two seconds. Which is a really solid running time for this film to have as the film really does have more then enough plot to cover that large amount of running time but at the same time tho there are alot of scenes in this films that don't add up to anything in the grand scheme of things and would therefor thus come across as being filler scenes when this film doesn't need padding out at all as the story itself is strong enough to carry the film with out adding anything to it but at the same time tho it's in alot of those pointless scenes that we get to see alot of those cool moments from the films trailer and that do give us alot of cool moments in this film but just because they give us a cool moment doesn't mean that there needed for this film as the film as the whole has to always come first and not just having cool moments for the sake of having cool moments but I will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a horror film that means that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really cool. With this film having alot of really cool kills which is where this films directors really do excel as as we know from their previous two films we know that they are capable of giving us some really cool kills and that's exactly what we get here and while in the Scream films you bound to it being done by a human here that's not an issue and as a result you can do alot more really cool kills that are just fun to watch and that's exactly what we get in this film as all of this films kills are not only cool looking kills but are also just fun kills to really watch to watch as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall out of the two Late Night With The Devil is the better of the two films as that films does have a fully engaging plot and really likable characters and while this film also has some really likable characters but it also doesn't have a fully engaging plot as well with both films having some really good kills in them both as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all f the images that I personally used in this very review ell then boys and girls and as well as ladies ad gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this episode up on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
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