Abigail(2024)

Plot Summary

• Young ballet dancer Abigail is abducted by six criminals and taken to the secluded Wilhelm Manor. Before leaving, their leader Lambert instructs them to guard Abigail for 24 hours, at which point they will receive an equal share of a $50 million ransom paid by her father. The group, using aliases to avoid identifying each other, consists of former Army medic and recovering drug addict Joey, former NYPD detective Frank, thrill-seeking hacker Sammy, former Marine sniper Rickles, dimwitted mob enforcer Peter, and sociopath driver Dean.Though reluctant to continue with the plan as she was unaware Abigail was a child, Joey is tasked with managing Abigail. Joey is sympathetic to her, sharing that she has a son and promising to protect Abigail from harm. Abigail admits her father does not care about her and will not pay the ransom, before apologizing for what is going to happen to Joey. Perturbed by Abigail's words, Frank violently confronts her, learning that her father is Kristof Lazaar, a powerful, almost mythical crime lord.Dean enters the basement, where he is attacked by an unseen assailant. Investigating his screams, Sammy finds Dean's decapitated corpse. The group realizes that Lazaar's legendarily violent enforcer, Valdez, is inside the house while the security system prevents them from leaving. Searching for a way out, Rickles is mutilated and killed. The group confronts Abigail for information, but she transforms into a vampire, revealing she is Valdez. Frank shoots Abigail, but her injuries instantly heal. Frank, Sammy, and Peter attack Abigail with garlic, crucifixes, and other folkloric weapons said to ward off vampires to no effect. Her strength and speed allow her to easily overwhelm and prevent them from stabbing her through the heart. Abigail bites Sammy before being incapacitated by Joey with a tranquilizer and locked in a cage.Upon awakening, the centuries-old Abigail reveals that she knows the group's true identities and arranges for them to abduct her through Lambert so she can kill them for wronging Lazaar. Joey deduces that Abigail has killed dozens of her father's enemies in a failed effort to earn her his love. Abigail effortlessly escapes her confines and attacks Frank, but Joey exposes Abigail to sunlight, which severely wounds her. With hours before sunset, the group splits up to find an escape route, but Sammy transforms into Abigail's vampire thrall and kills Peter. Abigail has Sammy attack, Frank and Joey, forcing Joey to destroy Sammy with reflected sunlight.Lambert lures Frank and Joey to a hidden security room, where he reveals Abigail turned him into a vampire years earlier to help Frank avoid Lazaar's wrath. Frank allows Lambert to turn him into a vampire so they can kill Abigail and Lazaar, but following his transformation, Frank kills Lambert for leading him into Abigail's trap. Abigail attacks Frank, but he overpowers her and drains her blood, leaving her weakened. Cornered, Joey leaves a phone message for her son, apologizing for having been absent from his life for many years. Reveling in his power, Frank bites Joey, intending to turn her into his thrall and force her to kill Abigail and, eventually, her son. However, Joey does not transform because of Frank's inexperience with his new abilities, and she and Abigail team up to kill him.Abigail encourages Joey to leave and be present in her son's life, but Lazaar arrives and threatens Joey.[a] Abigail defends Joey for being present when she needed her while Lazaar was not. Although Lazaar angrily rebukes her, he relents for Abigail's sake and allows the bloodied and battered Joey to leave.

Storyline

• After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they're locked inside with no normal little girl. — Abigail movie The mission seemed deceptively simple for a gang of daring criminals: all they had to do was abduct the ballet-loving daughter of a powerful man, keep her under lock and key in a secret location, and then collect the ransom. After all, a father would do anything for his child. Instead, things take an unexpected turn when a hair-raising undercurrent of supernatural dread has everyone guessing. But something sinister lurks in the mansion's shadowy corridors. And before first light, the kidnappers will learn firsthand that evil has many faces. — Nick Riganas A six-member-crew kidnaps the twelve-year-old ballerina Abigail from her home and brings her to an isolated old mansion, expecting to receive a fifty-million-dollar ransom from her wealthy father. The abduction was organized by the mastermind Lambert and the identity of the father and the crew members are unknown by each other except Lambert. While in the mansion, he gives names to each kidnapper, and they are the former military addicted medic Joey; the former corrupt detective Frank; the former military sniper Rickles; the hacker and wealthy daughter that embezzled her family money Sammy; the dumb mobster bodyguard Peter; and the reckless sociopath and getaway driver Dean. The masked Joey is the contact with Abigail, and she promises that nobody will hurt her. She also removes her blindfold and moves her handcuff from her back to make the girl more comfortable. When Dean is found with a severed head in the kitchen, Frank goes to Abigail's room without mask and asks her who her father is. He learns that he is the dangerous crime lord Kristof Lazaar and certainly his notorious cruel right-hand Valdez has found Dean. Frank decides to leave the group, but soon they find that they are trapped inside the mansion. Further some evil creature is hunting them down. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil