• 7 months ago
Melissa Barrera discusses her role as Joey in Abigail in this behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming vampire horror movie. Abigail also stars Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, Alisha Weir, William Catlett, Kevin Durand, Angus Cloud, and Giancarlo Esposito.

Children can be such monsters.

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.

From Radio Silence—the directing team of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett behind the terrifying modern horror hits Ready or Not, 2022’s Scream and last year’s Scream VI—comes a brash, blood-thirsty new vision of the vampire flick, written by Stephen Shields (The Hole in the Ground, Zombie Bashers) and Guy Busick (Scream franchise, Ready or Not).

The film produced by William Sherak (Scream franchise, Ready or Not), Paul Neinstein (Scream franchise; executive producer, The Night Agent) and James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, Scream franchise) for Project X Entertainment, by Tripp Vinson (Ready or Not, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) and by Radio Silence’s Chad Vilella (executive producer Ready or Not and Scream franchise). The executive producers are Ron Lynch and Macdara Kelleher.

Abigail opens in theaters on April 19, 2024.
Transcript
00:00 There's six of us in this crew of kidnappers.
00:02 My character, Joey, she is the medic,
00:05 in case anything goes awry.
00:07 Okay.
00:08 You see right away that there must be a really good reason
00:11 for her to keep going with this job.
00:13 No one said it was a kid.
00:14 She didn't know that they were gonna kidnap
00:15 a 12-year-old girl,
00:18 who is also...
00:20 a thousand-year-old vampire.
00:24 Hey, Caleb. It's Mom.
00:26 I love you so much.
00:27 (dramatic music)