Movie Review of Abigail

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Abigail, a 2024 horror comedy (although I didn't get the comedic edge), was written by Stephen Shields and Gary Busick and directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. The plot follows a team of kidnappers who take the daughter of a powerful underworld figure, demanding a random of $50,000, unaware that they've been led to an isolated mansion only to be victims of a vampire.

Abigail (Alisha Weir), a little-girl ballerina, takes them out one-by-one, the first victim Mr. Cool Dean (Angus Cloud), who's beheaded and drained of blood. Charged to watch her is the vivacious Joey, played by Melissa Berrera whom I recognized from the Starz show Vida. She made it hard to concentrate on the film because she's got a stunning set of busoms--sorry. I also recognized Peter (Kevin Durand) from The Strain.

Alliances are made, certain people becoming victims of vampirism either willingly or unwilling, and the bloody gore fest leads you to wonder if any of them will survive the night. 

Most people have probably seen this one already. If not, enjoy!

Late Night With the Devil Movie Review

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Late Night With the Devil is a found-footage and documentary-style 2023 horror film written, directed and edited by Colin and Cameron Cairnes, starring David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss, and Fayssal Bachi. Desperate for better ratings in the 1970's compared to Johnny Carson--whom I watched religiously as a kid--a late-night TV host of a program called Night Owls, who worships at the Grove when he's off work, unleashes hell on earth into the studio and into the living rooms of the viewers. 

On Halloween night, host Jack Delroy (Dastmalchian), after losing his wife to cancer, has stacked the evening with creepy guests, including a medium, a skeptic, and a 13-year-old possessed girl named Lilly (Bachi) who was the only escapee from a house of Anton Levay-style Satanists after a fire. I found Lilly fascinating the way she stared at me through the camera, as if in the mind of the viewer. Also clever was the first movie about elite, demonic worshippers at the Grove. In fact, when Jack talks a parapsychologist into bringing out Lilly's demon, the devil says he knows Jack from worshipping among the trees. 

Jack's worst fears come true when pure evil is unleashed in the studio and on his life, leaving him without hope and in big trouble, big trouble!

Enjoy if you haven't seen it yet. \m/ \m/

Review of Bodies Bodies Bodies

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Bodies Bodies Bodies, a 2022 comedy-horror film, was loaded with potential, but dropped the ball, IMHO. It was directed by Halina Reijn and written by Sarah DeLappe, based on a story by Kristen Roupenian.

Seven young people gather for a Hurricane party, boozing and doing drugs. When douchebag Dave (Pete Davidson) gets killed, the six assume a murderer is lurking about, and they commence to kill each other out of panic. After the murder, blond lesbian Bee (Maria Bakalova) doesn't see a shadow figure lurking behind her. I wanted the figure to be a werewolf or murdering ghost, but they didn't do anything with it, instead opting to do a slasher film, which, for the most part, I don't think has much of a plot. 

The twist ending isn't unclever, but it didn't blow me away. 

Check it out, and let me know what you think.