15 Best Horror Movies Like Abigail

From previous films by Radio Silence to similarly blood-soaked vampire comedies like The Lost Boys, there are plenty of great horror movies like Abigail for fans to check out. Helmed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, known collectively as Radio Silence, Abigail puts a fresh comedic spin on the vampire mythology. It revolves around an elite group of crooks being sent to abduct the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful figure in the criminal underworld, only to find that she’s actually a bloodthirsty, centuries-old vampire. She’s not trapped in a mansion with them; they’re trapped in a mansion with her.

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Before turning their sights to the vampire genre, Radio Silence had put their own uniquely energetic and darkly comic stamp on horror cinema with Ready or Not and their Scream films. Abigail isn’t the first movie to wring pitch-black humor out of vampires having fun; this was previously seen in From Dusk Till Dawn. From other killer kid movies like The Omen and Children of the Corn to the 1930s Universal Monsters classic that it reimagines, there are a ton of great horror movies that fans of Abigail need to watch.

15 Renfield (2023)

Chris McKay

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In this horror comedy, Renfield, the lackey of Count Dracula, aids the famous vampire on his journey to the new world. Unfortunately, the long-suffering servant is committed to an insane asylum after being framed for the murder of several ship crew members on arrival. When given a second chance at life, he falls for a quirky and aggressive traffic cop named Rebecca Quincy.

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*Availability in US Director Chris McKay Release Date April 14, 2023 Cast Nicholas Cage , Nicholas Hoult , Awkwafina , Ben Schwartz , Adrian Martinez , James Moses Black , Caroline Williams , Brandon Scott Jones Runtime 93 minutes

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Despite there being so many Dracula movies that exist, the character continues to be of interest in Hollywood, with several recent movies bringing the iconic character back to the screen. While Dracula’s role in Abigail is a fun surprise, he gets a much more prominent role, albeit a supporting one, in Renfield. Nicholas Hoult stars as Renfield, Dracula’s loyal familiar for centuries. However, as his master awakens in the modern world, Renfield begins to question his life of servitude.

As fun as Matthew Goode is in his cameo in
Abigail
, Nicolas Cage delivers a hugely entertaining performance as Dracula, being hilarious as well as frightening.

Like Abigail, Renfield takes a more comedic approach to the vampire genre with an even more lighthearted energy, yet in a movie that is still filled with blood and gore. As fun as Matthew Goode is in his cameo in Abigail, Nicolas Cage delivers a hugely entertaining performance as Dracula, being hilarious as well as frightening. He is the highlight of this good, wild, and fun ride.

14 Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

Halina Reijn

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Bodies Bodies Bodies is a comedy/horror/thriller from 2 AM. When Bee (Maria Bakalova) travels to a hurricane party with her girlfriend Sophie (Amanda Stenberg), they find themselves surrounded by affluent 20-somethings with very different world views. When the party finally kicks off amidst the coming storm, the debauchery leads to a game of “Bodies Bodies Bodies.” However, when a power outage occurs during the game, and a murder occurs in its stead, the party takes a turn for the deadly.

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*Availability in US Director Halina Reijn Release Date August 5, 2022 Cast Pete Davidson , Maria Bakalova , Rachel Sennott , Chase Sui Wonders , Amandla Stenberg , Lee Pace , Myha’la Herrold Runtime 95 minutes
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Abigail is able to be a big and violent horror movie while still keeping its scale quite small thanks to the setup that finds the cast of characters locked in a mansion together. Many horror movies have also used the isolated and claustrophobic setting to great effect, but Bodies Bodies Bodies is one the most recent that shares a lot of similarities with Abigail. The movie follows a group of rich and privileged friends who are having a hurricane party at a mansion. When the power goes out and a dead body appears, they begin to turn on each other.

Bodies Bodies Bodies operates as a slasher movie as well as a whodunnit with the cast gradually getting picked off one by one, as with Abigail. It is also a film that embraces its comedy and the fun of the ensemble with many laugh-out-loud moments throughout the story. However, the ending of Bodies Bodies Bodies is the real treat as the carnage and chaos leads to an amazing payoff.

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13 Let The Right One In (2008)

Tomas Alfredson

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Based on John Ajvide Lindqvist’s 2004 novel, Let the Right One In is a romance horror/drama that follows Oskar, a kindly young boy who is bullied relentlessly upon moving to a new Swedish neighborhood with his mother. Oskar’s fortunes begin to change when he befriends the dour but enchanting Eli, despite her dark and deadly supernatural secret. 

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*Availability in US Director Tomas Alfredson Release Date December 12, 2008 Cast Lina Leandersson , Karin Bergquist , Kåre Hedebrant , Henrik Dahl , Per Ragnar Runtime 114 minutes

While there are many vampire movies out there, the little girl vampire approach in Abigail is something unique in the genre. It adds another layer of creepiness and makes Abigail a more compelling character. However, while little girl vampire movies are rare, Abigail was not the first one to do it, and the idea was best used in the Swedish horror movie, Let the Right One In.

It is a fascinating exploration of being a vampire and those who choose to live with them.

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The movie follows a young boy who is a social outcast in school and living a lonely life when he meets a young girl who has appeared in his neighborhood. The two children form a bond and he discovers this little girl is actually a vampire. Despite the similar ages of the vampire protagonists, Let the Right One In is a much darker and more serious movie than Abigail. It is a fascinating exploration of being a vampire and those who choose to live with them.

12 Predators (2010)

Nimród Antal

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The third movie in the Predator franchise, Predators follows a group of humans who find themselves stranded in a mysterious jungle and hunted by a powerful race of technologically-advanced aliens. Mercenary Royce (Adrien Brody) is a former member of a Special Ops unit, and he finds himself leading the group through the jungle and protecting them from the Predators hunting them. Lawrence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Danny Trejo, Walton Goggins, and Alice Braga all star alongside Brody in supporting roles.

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*Availability in US Director Nimród Antal Release Date July 3, 2010 Cast Adrien Brody , Alice Braga , Topher Grace , Oleg Taktarov , Laurence Fishburne , Walton Goggins Runtime 107 Minutes

The idea of putting a bunch of colorful and dangerous criminals together as the ensemble of a horror movie, only to have them hunted by something much more formidable and terrifying is a fantastic setup for Abigail. It is also the approach taken by Predators, the most underrated sequel in the Predator franchise. The movie takes place on an alien planet where a group of the most dangerous humans on Earth — mercenaries, warlords, and serial killers — become the prey during the Predators’ latest hunt.

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Much like Abigail, Predators excels thanks to its wonderful cast with the likes of Adrien Brody, Walton Goggins, and Mahershala Ali starring in the sci-fi horror. Seeing these ruthless and deadly people reluctantly having to work together to ensure their own survival makes for a fun time in the midst of the brutality of Predators as they slaughter their prey.

11 Don’t Breathe (2016)

Fede Alvarez

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In Don’t Breathe, three friends looking to escape their lot in life decide to act on information that could change their fortunes forever; a blind veteran with hundreds of thousands of dollars lives alone in a deserted neighborhood. When the trio decides to perform the heist on his home, who they thought to be a feeble aging man with no sight turns out to be far more dangerous and capable than they could have anticipated. 

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*Availability in US Director Fede Alvarez Release Date August 26, 2016 Cast Stephen Lang , Katia Bokor , Daniel Zovatto , Sergej Onopko , Jane May Graves , Jon Donahue , Jane Levy , Dylan Minnette Runtime 88minutes

Abigail opens with the cast of criminals kidnapping a young child. It immediately makes all the main characters hard to root for, but the movie does a fantastic job of gradually making the audience care about them and ultimately fear for them when the horror begins. This is another trick pulled off in the intense horror film Don’t Breathe. It follows a trio of friends desperate for money who decide to sneak into the home of a blind man and rob him.

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However, this despicable act is flipped on its head when the blind man proves to be much more capable than he seems as well as more sadistic. The sympathies in the movie quickly shift as the audience is rooting for the young burglars to get out of the house as they are locked inside with the deranged killer.

10 Dracula’s Daughter (1936)

Lambert Hillyer

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Dracula’s Daughter Unrated Director Lambert Hillyer Release Date May 11, 1936 Cast Otto Kruger , Gloria Holden , Marguerite Churchill , Edward Van Sloan , Gilbert Emery , Irving Pichel , Halliwell Hobbes , Billy Bevan Runtime 71 Minutes

Abigail is a modern reimagining of the 1936 Universal Monsters classic Dracula’s Daughter. Gloria Holden stars as Count Dracula’s daughter and fellow vampire, Countess Marya Zaleska, who seeks to break free of Dracula’s influence and lead a normal life following his death. After failing to break his curse by destroying his body, the Countess instead turns to psychiatrist Dr. Jeffrey Garth. She abducts Dr. Garth’s assistant, Janet, and brings her to Transylvania for a climactic battle.

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While Abigail bears little resemblance to its original inspiration, Dracula’s Daughter has the same sense of vampiric carnage and the same focus on character over horror. Like Abigail, Dracula’s Daughter offers a fresh take on the familiar vampire lore amidst a sea of similar Dracula adaptations. And they both have a playful sense of humor under all the terror.

9 Scream (2022)

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett

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7.2/10 Scream R

The 2022 incarnation of Scream is the fifth entry in the franchise, set twenty-five years after the brutal murders caused by Billy Loomis and Stu Macher shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro. Now a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and has begun targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past. Following the prior killers’ footsteps, a new Ghostface attacks a high school student named Tara Carpenter. When her sister learns of the attack, she returns and meets with Tara’s old friend group to check on her. However, Ghostface strikes again when they visit the hospital, forcing them to partner with series regulars Dewey Riley, Sidney Prescott, and Gale Weathers to discover the truth behind the original Woodsboro murders and stop the new copycats.

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*Availability in US Director Matt Bettinelli-Olpin , Tyler Gillett Release Date January 14, 2022 Cast Neve Campbell , Courteney Cox , David Arquette , Melissa Barrera , Jack Quaid , Mikey Madison , Jenna Ortega Runtime 114 minutes

Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett, the directors of Abigail, first became household names when they revitalized the Scream franchise with their 2022 “requel,” simply titled Scream. Before Radio Silence came along, it didn’t seem like anyone could direct a Scream movie besides Wes Craven, who directed the first four films. But Radio Silence brought their own unique sensibility to the Scream franchise, honoring Craven’s legacy while bringing the property into a new era.

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It mixes the two genres beautifully

Scream satirizes a whole new generation of horror filmmakers and their fans, poking fun at reverent franchise reboots and toxic fandoms. Much like Abigail, Radio Silence’s first Scream movie strikes the perfect balance between gory horror violence and goofy slapstick humor. It mixes the two genres beautifully because the scares never detract from the laughs and the laughs never detract from the scares – they complement each other.

8 Children Of The Corn (1984)

Fritz Kiersch

Children of the Corn (1984)

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Children of the Corn is now in the pantheon of classic horror movies and there is a lot to like about it. Based on a Stephen King short story of the same name, Children of the Corn is a supernatural slasher set in the fictitious town of Gatlin, Nebraska a small rural town which is surrounded by huge and devious cornfields. The Children of Gatlin are convinced by a particularly evil child, Isaac Chroner, that they need to kill all the adults in the town to appease the gods after a terrible harvest. Isaac, with help of his right-hand dude Malachi, indoctrinates the children into an evil cult that centers around an evil deity called ‘He Who Walks Behind the Rows’. Three years after the initial slaughtering of the town’s adults, the town is provoked back into action as Vicky and her boyfriend Burt stumble into Gatlin after mauling a child with their car whilst on their way to Seattle. Released in 1984, Children of the Corn is quite a low-budget slasher so don’t go into it expecting a huge blockbuster production, but there is a lot to love about it and at times, it is genuinely scary. The film is concerned with the loss of innocence and aspects of religious fanaticism which is a little on the nose considering most of the towns children have biblical names but different twists and turns as the story progresses really drive the point home. The corn fields are a constant reminder of the complete isolation and accentuates the loneliness and danger that Vicky and Burt have found themselves in.

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Part of the genre fun of Abigail is seeing an ostensibly innocent little kid – or, at least, someone who looks like a kid – effortlessly slaughtering a bunch of grownups. The mother of all killer kid movies is Children of the Corn, Fritz Kiersch’s film adaptation of the Stephen King short story of the same name. Children of the Corn takes place in the fictional rural town of Gatlin, Nebraska, where all the children have been influenced by a mysterious entity to ritualistically murder all the adults.

A young couple named Vicky and Burt are driving across the country when they stumble into the town and run afoul of the murderous children. Children of the Corn plays as a more or less standard slasher, with a conventional story structure and a boatload of blood-soaked violence. However, much like Abigail, the young children doing the killing put a fresh spin on that formula.

7 Freaky (2020)

Christopher Landon

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Freaky is a film directed by Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day 2U) and centers around a young girl in high school that swaps bodies with a deranged serial killer. When four teenagers are found dead, the Blissfield Butcher’s re-emergence has made the town somewhat on alert. While waiting for her ride home at the end of a football game, Millie Kessler is attacked by the butcher with a mysterious dagger called La Dola, which then swaps the two into one another’s bodies in a Freaky Friday-like fashion. Millie discovers that to get back to her original body, she needs to get her friends and family to believe that their bodies have swapped – and she needs to reverse the ritual in twenty-four hours, or the switch will remain permanent.

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*Availability in US Director Christopher Landon Release Date November 13, 2020 Writers Michael Kennedy , Christopher Landon Cast Misha Osherovich , Vince Vaughn , Celeste O’Connor , Kathryn Newton , Uriah Shelton , Dana Drori , Alan Ruck , Katie Finneran Runtime 102 Minutes
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Kathryn Newton is one of the standouts in the cast of Abigail as reckless hacker Sammy. Abigail isn’t the first horror comedy that Newton has starred in. She previously played the lead role of awkward high schooler Millie Kessler in Christopher Landon’s body-swap slasher Freaky. Best described as a cross between Freaky Friday and Friday the 13th, Freaky sees Millie unwittingly switching bodies with the Blissfield Butcher, a notorious serial killer played by Vince Vaughn. Millie desperately wants her own body back, but the Butcher wants to keep it, because it’s easier to lure victims in his new body.

Newton and Vaughn both give fantastic performances in this movie, nailing the body-swap acting trick of embodying each other’s roles. Newton is fully believable as a cold-blooded murderer and Vaughn is hilarious as a flustered teenage girl. Freaky is just as funny – and just as terrifying – as Abigail.

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6 Orphan (2009)

Jaume Collet-Serra

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Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, Orphan is a psychological horror film in which a couple adopt a mysterious 9-year-old girl named Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), only to discover that she is not who she appears to be. Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard star as Kate and John, her adoptive parents.

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*Availability in US Director Jaume Collet-Serra Release Date July 24, 2009 Cast Isabelle Fuhrman , Vera Farmiga , Peter Sarsgaard Runtime 123 minutes

The central conceit of Abigail is that the title character seems like a child, but is actually much older – and is actually a murderer. The same conceit was used in Jaume Collet-Serra’s psychological thriller Orphan. Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard star as a couple mourning the loss of their unborn child. As a way to process the grief, they adopt a nine-year-old girl with a mysterious past, played by Isabelle Fuhrman.

When the bodies start piling up, they realize their new daughter isn’t what she seems. Like Abigail, Orphan builds up its premise purely as an excuse to indulge in the grisly slasher thrills of a killer massacring unsuspecting victims. However, making the killer a kid and hiding a sinister twist both go a long way toward setting these films apart from their cinematic peers.

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5 The Omen (1976)

Richard Donner

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The Omen is a 1976 horror film directed by Richard Donner, starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as parents who discover their adopted child may be the Antichrist. The film explores themes of prophecy, paranoia, and religious fear, as a series of ominous events lead the family to confront a terrifying fate. Widely regarded as a classic, The Omen is notable for its chilling atmosphere and intense performances.

Director Richard Donner Release Date June 25, 1976 Cast gregory peck , Lee Remick , Harvey Stephens , David Warner , Billie Whitelaw Runtime 111 Minutes

After Roman Polanski imagined how the Antichrist might come to Earth in Rosemary’s Baby, Richard Donner imagined who might raise him in The Omen. When an American diplomat loses his newborn baby, a priest convinces him to secretly adopt a different baby whose mother just died in childbirth, leaving his wife none the wiser. They name that baby Damien and, as it turns out, he’s the son of the Devil who’s come to wreak havoc on Earth.

Much like Abigail, The Omen revolves around a seemingly harmless little kid who turns out to be a bloodthirsty killer. And much like Abigail, it has plenty of gnarly gore to go along with its kills. Although The Omen was met with unfavorable reviews on its initial release, it’s since been reappraised as a creepy, suspenseful, well-paced horror classic.

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4 Ready Or Not (2019)

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett

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In Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s 2019 black comedy Ready Or Not, newlywed bride Grace Le Domas participates in a violent game of hide-and-seek with her fiancé’s family, who attempt to kill her during her wedding night as part of a long-standing ritual. The film stars Samara Weaving as Grace, Mark O’Brien as Grace’s husband Alex, Adam Brody as Alex’s brother Daniel, Andie MacDowell as their mother Becky, and Henry Czerny, Melanie Scrofano, Kristian Bruun, and Elyse Levesque as other members of the murderous family.

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*Availability in US Director Matt Bettinelli-Olpin , Tyler Gillett Release Date August 21, 2019 Cast Nat Faxon , Kate Ziegler , Elyse Levesque , Chase Churchill , Elana Dunkelman , Andie MacDowell , Liam MacDonald , Mark O’Brien , Nicky Guadagni , Adam Brody​ , Henry Czerny , Ethan Tavares , Kristian Bruun , Melanie Scrofano , Samara Weaving , Etienne Kellici , John Ralston Runtime 95 minutes Expand

Before Radio Silence were entrusted with the keys to the Scream franchise, they put themselves on the map with their darkly comedic thriller Ready or Not. Whereas Abigail is a modern spin on Dracula’s Daughter, Ready or Not puts a modern spin on the human-hunting antics of the Richard Connell short story “The Most Dangerous Game.” Samara Weaving stars as a young bride whose husband’s wealthy family hunt her on her wedding night as part of a Devil-worshipping ritual.

Everything about Ready or Not works spectacularly. The direction is intense, the editing is razor-sharp, and the script is smart, funny, and full of surprises. Plus, Weaving is a total badass in this brilliant subversion of the “final girl” role. In this version of the story, the supposed “final girl” is all alone – and the supposed slashers will be lucky if she leaves any of them alive.

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3 The Lost Boys (1987)

Joel Schumacher

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8.3/10 The Lost Boys R

The Lost Boys follows Michael Emerson (Jason Patric) and his younger brother Sam (Corey Haim) after they move to the small California beach town of Santa Carla only to discover that it is overrun with teenage vampires. When Michael falls victim to the titular gang and joins their ranks, Sam enlists the help of young vampire hunters the Frog brothers (Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander) in order to save his brother from head vampire David (Kiefer Sutherland).

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*Availability in US Director Joel Schumacher Release Date July 31, 1987 Cast Corey Feldman , Kiefer Sutherland , Jason Patric , Jami Gertz , Corey Haim Runtime 97 minutes

Abigail has plenty of fun subverting the tropes and conventions of the vampire genre for dark laughs. In the ‘80s, The Lost Boys did the same thing. The Lost Boys opens with two teenage brothers and their single mother moving to the fictional seaside town of Santa Carla, California. After the initial culture shock of moving from Phoenix, Arizona, to the coast of California, the brothers begin to suspect that the town is crawling with the undead.

After decades of stuffy, gothic Dracula adaptations, The Lost Boys finally made vampires cool. The older brother, Michael, falls in with a gang of vampires led by Kiefer Sutherland’s creepy yet charismatic David, while the younger brother, Sam, teams up with a pair of amateur vampire hunters. It’s a perfect blend of coming-of-age comedy and vampire thriller, with an unmistakably ‘80s aesthetic.

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2 M3GAN (2023)

Gerald Johnstone

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5/10 M3GAN PG-13

M3GAN tells the story of a lifelike robotic doll who arrives in a little girl’s life to help her cope with the death of her parents. As the young Cady befriends the robot, its designer, Cady’s aunt Gemma, realizes her self-aware invention is too dangerous to be kept alive. Blumhouse’s 2022 horror phenomenon mixes Chucky’s creepy inclination for violence with the Terminator’s unstoppable nature to craft a terrifying look at the dangers of Artificial Intelligence.

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*Availability in US Director Gerald Johnstone Release Date January 6, 2023 Cast Amie Donald , Kimberley Crossman , Allison Williams , Ronny Chieng , Violet McGraw , Brian Jordan Alvarez Runtime 82 Minutes

With its campy tone and its killer kid, Abigail feels like this year’s answer to 2023’s sleeper hit M3GAN. Allison Williams plays a roboticist who finds herself unequipped for parenthood when her young niece is unexpectedly put under her care. Rather than doing the parenting herself, she creates a robot doll that will look after the kid for her. It’s a surprisingly incisive satire of lazy parents who put an iPad in their baby’s hands and rely on technology to raise their kids for them.

They even share the same pre-kill ritual

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Much like Abigail, M3GAN is all about an unstoppable killing machine with the appearance of a harmless little girl. They even share the same pre-kill ritual; similar to Abigail, M3GAN dances before slaughtering her victims. Whereas Abigail is tonally and stylistically similar to The Lost Boys, M3GAN is comparable to Chopping Mall.

1 From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Robert Rodriguez

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4/10 From Dusk Till Dawn R

From Dusk Till Dawn is a horror movie directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino. It follows criminal brothers Seth and Richie Gecko (George Clooney and Tarantino), who take a family hostage in a bar that turns out to be a haven for vampires. The film also stars Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, and Salma Hayek, and has since become a cult classic.

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*Availability in US Director Robert Rodriguez Release Date January 19, 1996 Cast Quentin Tarantino , Juliette Lewis , George Clooney , Ernest Liu , Harvey Keitel Runtime 108 minutes

Initially, Abigail sets itself up as a crime movie about a group of criminals carrying out a job that goes awry. It only turns into a horror movie when the titular ballerina reveals that she’s a centuries-old vampire. This twist would’ve been really effective, too, if the trailers hadn’t given it away. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino pulled off a similar twist in their own vampire movie, From Dusk Till Dawn.

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In its first act, From Dusk Till Dawn is set up as a crime caper about a pair of bank robbers taking a vacationing family hostage to get them across the Mexican border. But at the midpoint, when they stop off at a strip club, it suddenly turns into a horror film as everyone in the club is revealed to be a vampire. As a fun-filled, vampire-infested horror comedy, From Dusk Till Dawn is the perfect movie for fans of Abigail.

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