Everyone in ABIGAIL is DUMB | Explained

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[@AmandaTheJedi]

Sammy and Pete deserved better 😔

[@mariacarolinef.santos7957]

I felt so bad for Sammy. She will be remembered

[@Jessidafennecfox]

Justice for Sammy and Pete

[@crazedsun]

Gods yes they do!❤❤

[@berryboba5068]

Ikr! They were my favorite characters! Another great movie with Kathryn Newton in it would be the comedy horror movie Freaky (2020). It also has Vince Vaughn in it!

[@Kozoku]

Did she at least get the money before she left?

[@Sharpe1502]

“Sammy, those are fucking onions!” DESTROYED me in the theater. 😂

[@christianwise637]

Pitch perfect delivery from Dan Stevens, dude seriously should do more comedic roles

[@SD-oi9gr]

Yeah I actually laughed out loud when that line came on. The delivery is so perfect lmao. I knew this movie would be good because it’s the guys who did ready or not which is probably the best comedy horror in recent years. This movie is basically a carbon copy of ready or not but with vampires instead. I really hope they make more movies like this.

[@LokTar_Ogar93]

and that stick worked on his fucking legs cracked me up lol

[@mst3KGf]

@@christianwise637 His tone is annoyed, but not surprised in the slightest. He's got the perfect "surrounded by idiots" attitude throughout the whole film.

[@dwellinginerised]

Dan Stevens is amazing. Loved him in Legion.

[@FilmsStuff]

I've been quoting 'Sammy, those are fucking Onions!' for the past month a little too much.

[@K0m30ng]

Alisha Weir was Matilda in Matilda The Musical and a vampire in Abigail, now that's incredible range. She's barely an adult yet but she already gave two excellent performances that justifies her talent properly. In addition to her small but solid role in Wicked Little Letters. She's brilliant! Can't wait to see what she does next 🙌

[@mrcritical6751]

And she did perfectly playing Abigail as a full blown adult

[@acemyname]

@@mrcritical6751she’s only 14

[@acemyname]

she’s 14 😭

[@garrickkthegreat5762]

she's not an adult.

[@mrcritical6751]

@@garrickkthegreat5762 I know, I was talking about when she switched into an adult like manner of speech during certain scenes

[@vadalia3860]

The thing that would cement my feelings about Joey going so far to help Abigail at the end is whether or not Abigail is an "eternal child"- someone who's lived for centuries but who still mentally and emotionally functions like a child. Which this movie doesn't answer definitively but the implications of Abigail still being upset about her father's neglect even though it has to have been going on for a while makes me think she is. In which case, I could see Joey still sympathizing with her as a child (for all her brutal violence towards them, it's not like Abigail was killing innocent people- every single one of them was okay with kidnapping someone and only Joey batted an eye when it was revealed to be a "kid" they were snatching) My biggest question however- who had the pool built? It looked fairly modern but since Abigail was turned in the house it must have been owned by her father prior to the pool being installed. So did they have a pool built in the house before or after they abandoned it? Did they have it built specifically for corpse storage or was Abigail just using it for that like my great-aunt uses her dishwasher to hold her "good dishes" because she never uses it? My headcanon is that before she was into ballet, Abigail was really into swimming. So, just like the father (or Abigail, but I'd prefer it being the father) had a little performance stage built for her in the house, he previously had a pool built for her. It's giving very divorced I'll-act-like-paying-attention-to-and-buying-things-for-my-child-are-equal-gestures-of-parental-love dad to me.

[@CrippledChaosClown]

I love movie breakdowns the more spoilers the better, I'm disabled and quite often housebound so this is how I get to enjoy movies that aren't on streaming. You're providing a service hunni xx

[@breakyourstory]

I liked seeing Matthew Goode popping in at the end as Father because he played a vampire in A Discovery of Witches, too, which if you haven’t watched you should totally do that (based on a book trilogy of another name). If you want lore, that will give you a lot of lore.

[@alexanon8345]

He also was notably not a vampire in Stoker but fulfilled the vibe of one, so I always associate him with being moderately malicious.

[@robertkeane9393]

I would love more, they definitely left room for more with that ending.

[@its99pm]

Ana Lucia's son wants distance as he's hurt by her actions, and Daddy Dracula drifts away again after a while... so Abigail calls up Joey/Ana Lucia and suggests [insert your favorite premise here]

[@Grabthar191]

I was highly disappointed in the trailers as they revealed WAY too much. Also, if you don't have stupid people, you don't have too many horror movies. People who walk into dark rooms without turning on lights and call out, "Hello?" that kind of thing. :) I wish they had found a way to do the trailer in such a way that until you watched it you wouldn't know it was the little girl that was the vampire. I'll probably still watch it if it comes out on one of my streaming services.

[@pixiestxNyomouf]

Yeah, they put way too much in the trailer which was why I wasn't jumping to watch it. "We kidnapped a ballerina vampire"....literally that's it. That's the movie and it was I the trailer. Literally all we missed was filler and dialog...

[@Grabthar191]

@@pixiestxNyomouf It reminds me of the movie House on Willow Street (2017) where a group kidnap a girl that is possessed by a demon. I think there was one called Hellfire (2005) where a group of women kidnap the AntiChrist thinking he is someone else.

[@Grabthar191]

@@pixiestxNyomouf Nope I was wrong, Hellfire was a B rated flick that looks like it was filmed on someone's mother's 1990s handicam. The other one I was thinking of was they kidnap some kid who is able to mindcontrol people to let out their more violent impulses. I can't seem to find it now.

[@cjc363636]

The vamps' look makes me think Wesley Snipes's Blade is about to show up in this.

[@maggielandrey7232]

I thought Franks mannerisms seemed familiar...he acted a LOT like Frost from the first Blade movie

[@Sonicstriforce]

I know it may be silly since I dont watch lots of horror movies, but I think a better ending wouldve been that after thr Daughter/Dad scene and Joey starts to leave she decides that despite letting her go they dont deserve to live, so while distracted in their hug she directs sunlight at them and they blow up immediately. Its similar to Ready or Not where she doesnt care about the villains deaths, and it would be less awkward with the themeing if she just goes "Thanks for the advice but you're still demons, see you in hell"

[@JDotWill]

Melissa Barrera has become one of my favorite Final Girls. Hopefully she does more horror movies

[@kayleebrewer2755]

I'm so happy I get off of work on time to watch your videos now. Best way to come home and have dinner. Thanks ❤️

[@thedorkone1516]

So, the funny thing to me about this movie is: I once ran a Vampire the Masquerade one shot with this plot. Yes, including the bit with the hitman. Not so much the last bit at the end.

[@jolakristin281]

The twilight quote was so perfect, thank you amanda!❤

[@ZombieGxrl]

Dude I swear I always look forward to your reviews. Nothing but entertaining. 😅 Never stop! ✌🏻

[@valmirdeoliveiramauro7027]

I was sooooo waiting for your take on Abigail!!!!

[@moviemania23]

Saw it opening weekend and really enjoyed it! Liked Melissa and Kathryn.

[@PassiveAgressive319]

20:31 why does she look like Miley Sirus

[@breeswane]

i can’t watch this video until i watch abigail!! are you going to review “i saw the tv glow”?

[@Kuchiri]

Considering this is a remake of 'Dracula's Daughter' it's safe to assume her daddy in the end was Dracula and the inclusion of him is possibly an opportunity to start another Universal Monster verse.

[@dorianleakey]

Amanda talking from experience about not looseing the handcuffs on kids.

[@rmounged]

Tried to make a comment about my fave parts of this but I kept remembering other bits and the list is way too long. Loved this one

[@sonjaimmonen6610]

I am starting to get into horror and this was the a good level of scary for me and all in all just fun. Yeah, the characters were stupid, but I like to think that no-one is thinking straight in a situation like that. I must say it would have been better in many ways to keep the vampire reveal from the trailers, but as a person who slowly strating to get into horror, I don't know if I hadn't gone to see this movie without the trailer. I saw it as a youtube ad and I was hooked and watched the entire ad and even watched it again after the youtube video.

[@christinejalandoni5919]

It's been awhile since I really wanted to see a movie. I like this because of the unique premise. Not perfect but looks to be quite enjoyable

[@leekenneth-walsh3545]

RIP Amgus Cloud. Glad he was able to go out on a film as fun as this one

[@hashtagslim]

Rip Angus Cloud 🙏🏼

[@kirstenkuhar4921]

I really enjoyed watching Abigail. It was a good movie, almost as good as Talk to Me. I did enjoy the ending, but man if they wanted the dad to have more impact they should have Easter egg it with Nicholas Cage from Renefield. Just to connect the worlds. Or have the another horror movie including the dad.

[@bassasababarebelbeans5657]

Frank definitely can't be labelled a good guy but I didn't expect him to completely turn on Joey. There were moments when he instinctively helped the rest of the group so I didn't think he'd turn full evil.

[@manaskyshroud]

I personally love most vampire flicks. I will probably watch this one if its free on a streaming platform, but haven't been looking forward to it. I think Kirsten Dunst in Interview with the Vampire really ruined child vampires for me. Annoying, shrill, overly emotional eternal beings really rub me the wrong way. Interesting they would cast Matthew Goode as a vampire again (Matthew Clairmont - A Discovery of Witches) and then not really use him? Just have him 'SHOW UP' for his daughter. Maybe a few beers and a free stream of this movie would be fun? I guess we will see. Thanks once again @AmandaTheJedi for a superb review. Keep up the good work!

[@kevinbre7563]

I liked it. My only problem with it was Dean. But, once he died, l thought it got more fun.

[@JordanWyn]

"Sammy, those are fucking onions" was *chef's kiss*

[@BigFrakingSword]

Excluding Abigail (since she is the titular role and thus a given), Sammy and Peter were the best characters hands down.

[@tortxrra]

"if for some reason you haven't seen it--" does it not being out in my country count

[@Lucy-fv4su]

I was watching this blind with my siblings and at some point early on i turned to my brother and went 'hehe, what if the kid is Valdez.' Anyway we had such a good time.

[@christineherrmann205]

I'd love to hear your take on the new Turkish Netflix series "Thank you, Next." I thought it was extremely cleverly plotted with great character development (and music!).

[@podgy5]

I loved this movie 😊 I had to go watch it in theatres on opening night

[@Beto_Serrano]

I wanted to watch this movie. This review hyped me up even more! Some good ol' vampire fun is what I need for horror flicks.

[@MrBiggles53]

There was so much blood…

[@delphinelavendermorgan4627]

Headcanon, the next one will be about Joy becoming Abigail's babysitter

[@ziggydoesstardust7144]

One of those ones where you root for the killer/ monster immediately. Joey and franks beef was super dumb imo. Felt like it was only there to let you know joey is for sure the main character.

[@galacticgila219]

Left a bit into the video to watch the movie myself, that was stupidly goofy and fun, I loved it lmao

[@lunavioleta001]

I'm really tired that the last survivor is almost always the most boring and/or predictable. Why can't the most interesting or wacky characters be the last survivor? It says a lot about people's lack of creativity and such. And they try so hard to be suspenseful over something so obvious. Oh yes, she was really going to be a "puppet". Witch, Bodies Bodies Bodies, and Midsummer are one of the very few movies that did the "final girl" trope correctly.

[@holy9781]

Love this movie,way better than expected.see this not the strangers

[@jamarrwalker936]

Abigail is a solid movie. I truly have an amazing time with this movie!

[@Sclasspsycho]

To be fair, I have a photo of ancestors of mine that features a girl that looks just like me when I was a child. I guess people would think I was a vampire too.

[@Moggleberries]

I really enjoyed the movie, maybe because I didn’t realise the team behind it

[@cloverboyblue]

i just thought there were too many explosions in this movie. it could have had zero explosions and yet it had... so many

[@willaumep]

well horror movies is a genre where characters go alone to explore doors that open on their own with shitty lamp torch..... I thought it was a good movie.

[@BlueRagtop]

I thought Matthew Goode's appearance was an inside joke for Downton Abbey fans. There, he played Henry Talbot, the second husband of Lady Mary Crawley. Her first husband (deceased) was Matthew Crawley, who was played by Dan Stevens.

[@matxalenc8410]

I really wish I liked it, but it wasn't funny or scary to me. And really, I believe with the idea of a 12 year old ballerina vampire, the movie should've been extremely campy and ridiculous. I agree about not playing out the daddy issues, too. That ending had me rolling my eyes (it was a little bit too sappy for my taste).

[@justifiedkill7766]

Glad somebody enjoyed a movie because it was just entertaining. Don't understand people who think a form of entertainment is bad because it doesn't do anything more than entertain. You don't need to have a 5 hr debate about the true meaning of life and the impact of society on the morality of blah blah blah to say something was just good fun.

[@M9Nein]

Honestly i thought made sense that Joey was weak to Abigail because that's just how her character is set up. She is the only one to protest at kidnapping a kid, protects her from being punched right from the beginning and becomes overly invested because of her backstory. Like that's not really 'stupid' to me. What was stupid was Joey having a picture of her kid ON HER PHONE LOCK SCREEN. Like my dude, way to just directly show a bunch of criminals who Just kidnapped a kid your weak point??? Also I liked the lack of obvious lore. Some horror movies just have an entire lore dump section as a character reads from a book "oh once upon a time here have the whole backstory." That can be interesting too. For this I think the hints being more for us viewers made things fun because it kept up the suspense that WE knew *something* was Wrong but not exactly everything. A snapshot of horror in a time crunch, where the characters fight for survival with limited information and hints to a bigger picture that they were just pawns of. Like a true horror.

[@grapeshot]

Basically it's she's not stuck in there with them they're stuck in there with her.

[@tirefish]

*Doom music intensifies*

[@lauragraves4342]

Now I want Rorshach vs Vampires. 😊......with some Deadpool.

[@osmanyousif7849]

So From Dusk Till Dawn…..

[@The_KlaVra]

"Sammy, those are fucking ONIONS!" Favourite quote of the whole movie, made me laugh really hard.

[@SunnysFilms]

It's especially hilarious that any of these idiots would assume there would be garlic in what is clearly a vampire's house or that if they found any it would have any effect whatsoever.

[@miskatonic6210]

You're really easy to please. I can hardly think of a more lame joke.

[@DizzyBusy]

​@@miskatonic6210 Being easy to please is bad, because...?

[@kenslycarpel3140]

@@miskatonic6210Oh no, it’s almost like humor is subjective.

[@doctormalleycat]

She would smell so bad and be covered in filth they could of at least showed her wash off after falling in that body filled sludge water

[@enby_kensei]

Abigail was fuckin fire, but not for the reasons that were advertised. It's like watching your friends fumble their way through a tabletop murder mystery, but with vampires. My family and I were laughing our asses off the whole time; I can't wait to watch it with my friends after knocking back a few shots.

[@Moerighan]

I love this take, like the whole movie is just your family/friends in a tabletop game setting. That would have been the biggest twist at the end and made their dumb decisions make much more sense.

[@icedcanadiano]

Joey believing Abigail when she said Frank was Valdez is just Joey's player rolling a nat 1 on insight

[@brainspider]

So agreed Enby!

[@JDotWill]

I didn’t need Dracula to have much of a presence, it wasn’t really about him. But I did like how the moment he shows up, Joey is scared shitless. He struck fear into her instantly

[@maggielandrey7232]

He was on screen for all of 2 minutes and had PRESENCE. I dont know about anyone else, but I appreciated it haha

[@lessismore8533]

@@maggielandrey7232agree

[@snoopygonewilder]

@@maggielandrey7232 Matthew Goode plays a good vampire. He was in A Discovery of Witches the TV show, and was all charming and such most of the time, but when he went into vampire mode he was pretty intense.

[@crimsonhoudini1521]

Yeah I agree-i didn’t mind him not having a lot of screen time. He struck fear into me too cuz I was like “oh shit is all of what Joey just did been for nothing?” bc he’s that much of a violent a hole. It was oddly touching of him allowing to let her go, sorta like how a predator corners it’s prey and then decides to leave it alone after suddenly deciding it wasn’t hungry.

[@Firebrimstoneshadow]

I love how this is in the same universe of Ready or Not. So that universe has demons and vampires officially

[@roderick8167]

Yeah my head canon is that in this universe Kristof Lazar who is actually Dracula aka Vlad Tepes made a deal with Mr Lebail aka The Devil for immortal life making him the first vampire which in turn started the vampire race in this universe

[@daphnia9664]

that explains the explosive deaths

[@lizthedisjointedzebra692]

Abigail struck me as a mix of M3gan, Ready or Not, with a sprinkling of Claudia from Interview with the Vampire.

[@osmanyousif7849]

And From Dusk Til Dawn, but without a strip club.

[@B1998-u6i]

So about the dad reveal. Originally this was announced as a straight Dracula's Daughter remake, at least when Radio Silence took over as director. However, after Renfield and The Last Voyage of The Demeter were minor box office failures, apparently Universal pushed for reshoots to lower that connection. So that's why it's so dramatic: he wasn't originally just Matthew Goode as a vampire, it was Matthew Goode as *that* vampire.

[@mst3KGf]

It's still pretty obvious who he's supposed to be, however. Even before his arrival, his crest is all over the house, which is the dragon symbol that Dracula always has (that specific one going all the way back to the original Bela Lugosi film).

[@Brozinator97]

Plus the opening theme that Abigail is dancing to is an homage to the original Dracula score.

[@ZachCook1397]

I know it was probably needed to sell the movie but I wish they’d hidden the twist of Abigail being the vampire. Would love to see a fan made trailer that keeps that hidden to see how it could work

[@JayJay-17]

Yeah I saw the trailer and hated they had the vampire reveal in it.

[@XOmangoXO]

Scott Cramer did a video about it recently but studies/focus groups have apparently shown that people enjoy or go see the movie more when the trailers reveal more 🤷‍♀️ I just try to avoid watching them all together

[@supposedlymel]

everyone i'd talked to said to not watch the trailer and go into the film blind and im so glad i did

[@xoPotatoTreexo]

I was wondering about that, because I thought the pacing in the first third was a bit weird because I knew the "reveal" and wasn't sure if I was supposed to know already from the way the movie tiptoed around it. Like, in other movies where the reveal was in the trailers, the movie was set up in a way that nodded to the audience knowing but the characters don't (and other movies, where the reveal is alluded to in trailers but not confirmed, the movie reflects that too). I'm not sure if I'm making sense but it just felt like a weird disconnect to me 😅

[@lovestumacher]

I thought about that too, but I actually enjoyed that there were other twists to make up for Abigail’s reveal lol

[@PassTheMarmalade1957]

Joey might be the smart one, but she's also got motherhood issues and guilt over leaving her son. Of course she believed the little girl whose daddy ignores her over Frank.

[@lessismore8533]

Yah. I’m sure Abby’s daddy issues made Joey feel even MORE guilty..

[@sylas3265]

I kinda want Abigail to ask Joey to be her coffins chaperone for a vacation in a second one. Still criminal murder enterprise in the meantime but also as a buddy horror comedy of sorts

[@its99pm]

that would be such a good premise, I'm here for it!!

[@sylas3265]

@@its99pm right? It's like, Abigail is darkly goofy so it's better if it's taken not quite to an outright comedy but like Joey is clearly doing a job and she doesn't mind Abigail is a vampire *now* but the wanton chaos that ensues from someone trying to kidnap Lazar's daughter for real or targeting their criminal empire, there's good ideas to run with.

[@lessismore8533]

@@sylas3265I don’t know about your idea, but I DO agree that the close relationship between Joey and Abby should continue. Ever since they made that pinky promise, I felt they’d be close. Even after Joey found out Abby’s true identity…

[@jaernihiltheus7817]

I want abigail's father to "ask" joey to babysit her in the sequel. Bloody hijinks ensue when someone comes a-knocking.

[@shainewhite2781]

This movie is supposed to be a loose or modern adaptation of Dracula's Daughter.

[@isapheonix]

Draculas daughter was terrible. They fixed it

[@arrow_of_ravenclaw5155]

Katherine Newton is in her scream queen era and I love it. I loved freaky and Lisa Frankenstein is my personal favorite of the year(won’t say it’s the best. But it’s my favorite) and now she has this

[@AmandaTheJedi]

She is SO good in this

[@K0m30ng]

Lisa Frankenstein is freaking great, I hope that movie finds some cult following in the future

[@arrow_of_ravenclaw5155]

@@K0m30ngsame. I gotta do a double feature with it and Jennifer’s body

[@AmandaTheJedi]

@@K0m30ng I don't think it needs the cult following people really loved it - it'll definitely pick up more people on streaming though

[@SaphInfection]

Bruh I can't believe Cassie Lang kidnapped a child, what would Scott think

[@missclayman5180]

I can't watch scary movies because I'm too much of a coward so I really enjoy every time you explain a horror movie with so much detail! It's like I've seen it, without having nightmares for the next seven years!

[@SuperYxskaft]

Same here, although I can watch them if I am with someone.

[@corik1065]

This is exactly what I just told my husband. I get to know what happens in the scary movie without having to watch the movie and have nightmares! It’s great

[@FauxFoxPaw]

Have you tried FoundFlix? He does a great job with horror movies

[@tommymayfield814]

People who can't watch horror movies are usually so creative that their brains continue to tell them stories when they are trying to rest. I hope you have a creative outlet to express yourself.

[@ThisisBrandi]

I’m the same but I look at just as that I don’t enjoy the emotion of fear. I don’t know if I think I’m a coward, it just feels more like a choice not to expose myself to it.

[@hartthorn]

I absolutely loved this movie and lost it at so many parts. Abigail basically being a neglected child acting out for any kind of interaction was fantastic. And I think the sparseness of the ending scene worked for me. For all the horror stories we had about Llazar, when it comes to him and his daughter, the MOMENT he realizes she's actually hurt by his actions it affects him. I kinda love it. He's vampire Homer Simpson in that moment. He genuinely loves her but he's also a doofus who needs that in your face moment to understand why he's being a fuck up.

[@TheAbigailDee]

Vampire Homer Simpson is PERFECT

[@swnbv]

I definitely felt like parental guilt/abandonment were a pretty strong through line, and actually made Joey believing and helping Abigail past the point of reason believable. She's so deeply guilty about not being able to be there for her son, so she's far more inclined to believe in or go out of her way for another child, especially one who she formed a bond with. It kind of reminded me of how Tess in Barbarian was constantly throwing herself into danger for men despite it being the stupidest possible choice, because it wasn't a choice, not really, in the character's mind. All that said, I didn't mind that the father showed up at the end, it just felt a little ham-fisted, what with Abigail just explaining the message of the film verbatim to her father.

[@Karragh]

I THINK the intent of Abigail holding out her pinky in the final action scene isn't just her saying "you promised no one would hurt me". Abigail is trying to convince Joey to push herself through the pain to help kill Frank. She's reinforcing the deal they made a few minutes ago. Like she really means it, "pinky promise I'll let you go."

[@tuckershuff1441]

"Sammy, those are ------- ONIONS!" Lord, please grant me the opportunity to one day say this exact line to someone with the exact same amount of pure vitriol.

[@ttjc3696]

What I love about this movie is how, upon second viewing, you realize just how well Abigail planned everything out so she could play her role and test her father’s love. Even the Frank moments, you get the sense that regardless she would have won but was just playing along.

[@quasarsurfer]

I'm in neither category where I haven't seen the movie, will never see this movie, but I like listening to Amanda talk.

[@kevincarter2020]

We all do

[@ashleyelrod9935]

Same! 😊

[@Kris-wo4pj]

seriously i say oh that sounds fun to watch and then never watch it.

[@TheDawnofVanlife]

Not really a horror fan but I will watch a good one and I’d rather be spoiled first and Amanda’s takes will usually let me know if it’s worth watching for myself…but sometimes I don’t just cause I am like ‘too much gore for me’.

[@Grim13tidings]

Same lol

[@amberdawn5372]

I love how every video I’ve watched talking about this film has included the “Sammy those are fucking onions” clip. Iconic 😂

[@JDotWill]

Alisha Weir is such a little badass in this. Her performance was great & she did her own stunts

[@lessismore8533]

Cool. Her stunts weren’t that complicated to me tho. Still, she nailed it

[@TesticularDancer]

@@lessismore8533Why are you crawling all over this comment section trying to dim down a teenager’s success?

[@VultureSkins]

@@lessismore8533stunts don’t need to look complicated for it to be noteworthy that she did her own

[@ahbibis]

huge day for girls names Abigail

[@arocknrolldream]

The delivery of that "he's dead! she got hiiim!" god I love Kathryn Newton

[@BuzzieeTheMarsmellow]

the chokey really got to matilda

[@Lisa_Flowers]

this made me laugh until i cried

[@1kaz1]

I saw this comment, thought nothing of it, then it set in and I started laughing so I had to come back to like it and give you props omg

[@DarkKnightBatman420]

Drove me nuts that Sammy didn't immediately rush to the showers after falling in the human soup. I wouldn't have been able to tolerate it myself. The one question I have about this movie is that was there some connection between that song and Abigail's powers? It just looked like Sammy turned the second she heard it.

[@mrcritical6751]

I think that song is just how she gets into the zone

[@jessikat_17]

I didn't register the connection and romantic, I saw it as two peeps from the military deciding to stick together. She was an army Medic and he was a Marine. When she was clocking them, she said Seper Fi, which is the Marine motto, I think.

[@its99pm]

It's the brief exchange when he asks if she wants to come inside his room and she responds that she's supposed to be a professional ;)

[@djixi98]

It was pretty obvious that he wanted to (at least) kiss her, and that comes from me, someone who'd never clock that irl lmao

[@matxalenc8410]

​@@djixi98 Yes. They were giving eachother eyes. I thought they were gonna fight and leave together. I was so excited 'cause I love a good-looking couple. Then he got killed. 😂

[@TheAbigailDee]

As an Abigail who grew up in the world of competitive dance.... I feel like this is MY movie.

[@TitularHeroine]

If you spare my life I promise to let you out of the rusty old elevator

[@Karragh]

The first time a vampire died in this movie and exploded blood everywhere, I remembered that it was directed by one of the ready or not guys.

[@katthawthorne1027]

The credits rolled on this in the theater and my literal first thought was, "Oo, I hope Amanda the Jedi does a review of this movie".

[@shidosuteshi464]

To me, Abigale felt like a Horror DnD night. You some characters with separate backstories that get connected as the DM continues the story, twists and turns that seem a little improvised based on low and high roles(The fight scene where Sammy gets bit being a failed saving throw), Frank's overly self centered nature allowing him to choose his own path by killing Lambert and becoming the BBEG and even the surprise visit from daddy dearest and letting Joey go being a "Last One Alive" ending. I could totally make this into a DnD run with my friends making their own characters and following the major plot points of the movie.

[@MegaReacts]

Abigail was such a fun movie. I went into it completely blind and the reveal was great. My reaction gets blocked left and right, but it's currently up.

[@mossomness]

I loved your reaction! I’m sorry it keeps getting blocked.

[@vintagesoup79]

I think playing Swan Lake at the start is a reference to Universal's 1931 Dracula.

[@miskatonic6210]

Swan Lake is used in every hollywood movie that barely touches ballet, because the random US viewer knows nothing about ballet and only recognizes that one and nutcracker suite.

[@xoPotatoTreexo]

This is basically an updated version of Dracula's Daughter (a direct sequel to Bela Lugosi's Dracula), so you're right 😊

[@transplantman2287]

Sammy not knowing what garlic looks like but knowing pop culture vampire lore was PERFECT. 😂

[@SkipperJane]

lol, Matthew Goode playing all types of vampires. Definitely not the “Discovery of Witches” variety.

[@spacecow149]

The Angus Cloud tribute was nice

[@jerrygriffiths6454]

My favorite scene was Abigail flying and the Canadian just tackles her from the stairs and body slams her.

[@JYJnKumi]

I LOVED this movie. I had a blast watching it. Wasn't bored at any point, but I was surprised about who turned out to be the final villain, someone I thought would have gotten axed off fairly quickly.

[@bafbegagglestick6241]

Is it weird that I don't watch horror movies but I love watching Amanda talking about them? Not that I'm concerned about being weird, just curious...

[@xian1978]

I had a strange moment where I said... but I already watched this video? She already talked about this WEEKS ago! And then I remembered it was Amanda Swell Entertainment, so WRONG AMANDA!!!

[@ella_bunno]

OMG IT WAS SWELL!! I thought i was going insane and literally was looking for comments saying it was a reupload. You saved me because i was not going to renember that it was swell who has talked about this

[@DarkKnightBatman420]

The whole thing about Frank throwing up blood seemed like a callback to Louis's transformation in the Interview with the Vampire novel. Can't say I can make a better comparison to that in any film, but maybe I'm just rusty on my knowledge of vampire films.

[@KirstenMarie_MS3]

I'd be kinda pissed too if someone called me called me junkie. But I'm coming up on 13 years of recovery and completing medical school, soooo....🤷‍♀️ But the sweet tooth thing has never gone away. It activates the same pathways as the common drugs of abuse, although to a lesser extent.

[@2dicone]

PLEASE TALK ABOUT GODZILLA MINUS ONE!!! It was the sleeper hit of last year and deserves the time 😄😄

[@camrendavis6650]

**Wins Oscar** = sleeper hit ?

[@Shardai_smith]

I think Matthew Goode is in this because he currently plays a vampire in The Discovery of Witches

[@storiesinthedust]

Here to say that i am the absolute biggest baby in the world who hates horror movies, but I love watching these videos!! As a fan of movies and pop culture in general I love feeling like I’m in on the plot without having to actually scare myself 😂😂😂 thank you for keeping me relevant and nightmare free!!

[@mskal23]

"Played by Gus Fring" lol I love how that is somehow accurate

[@cc.kanna88]

It’s Giancarlo Esposito…I don’t get it

[@mskal23]

@@cc.kanna88 Because it implies his Breaking Bad character played this role, rather than him

[@cc.kanna88]

@@mskal23I forgot he was in Breaking Bad… 😅

[@abigailharder3084]

Abigail had my name written all over it, literally! It was funny, it was gory (the pool 👀), and the child acting was perfectly sinister. My friend took me to see this movie in 4DX with moving seats and water spraying for every shot of blood 😂 I loved this movie!

[@Murdock13]

To be fair, these people were supposedly hired for diverse skill sets, so it makes sense that they are stereotypical in a way. This is typical in most heist/caper films, like "Mission Impossible" and "Ocean's 11".