Abigail, the new vampire movie from Scream reboot directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, takes movie gore to another level.
Abigail is in UK cinemas from 19 April.
Abigail is in UK cinemas from 19 April.
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00:00This film is a really good time and it has an outrageous third act really with gallons
00:04and gallons of blood, probably more blood than I've seen since, I don't know, like
00:08The Shining Elevator or something.
00:09Ha!
00:10Funny you mentioned that.
00:11There was a line in the script that said, The Shining Elevator, Shining Elevators would
00:15be jealous.
00:16We were like...
00:17About the amount of blood.
00:18Okay, well, we got it.
00:21Watch this.
00:22How tricky is that to handle?
00:23I mean, it feels very sticky and just like it would be not the funnest shoot or maybe
00:28it is the funnest shoot ever.
00:30It is very sticky.
00:31It is also very fun, you know.
00:35We have tons of blood in all of our movies so we're somewhat immune to it now on some
00:40level, but...
00:41We have tennis shoes from all of our shoots that are still just like, well, these are
00:45the shoes from Ready or Not.
00:46These are the shoes from Abigail.
00:48Caked in blood.
00:49There's always a period when you leave set and you go to the hotel or whatever and then
00:52you look down and you realize, oh man, I'm covered in fucking blood.
00:55This is awful.
00:58But they are, it's just, it's fun.
01:00I think, you know, when you're just the kind of family dynamic of making a movie when you're
01:04on set, everybody gets really excited about the blood stuff because it is such a, like
01:11it's an undertaking and it's a lot of work and it's a lot of planning and there's a lot
01:14of tests and those don't all go right, but you're all aiming at the thing that will go
01:18right so when you're there on the day, it's all of this preparation leading up to this
01:22one, two, three, oh, we got it or we didn't.
01:26And on this one, we got it every time, which was just wonderful, but every single time
01:32after one of the big blood events, there's laughter and cheers and you would think you
01:36were at like a sporting event and somebody just hit a home run, you know, like a sporting
01:40event.
01:41That's baseball.
01:42Like I was, I'm used to being covered in blood and I couldn't believe how much blood there
01:48was in this movie.
01:49I was like, you're kidding me.
01:52Like the sets were covered in blood.
01:54We were drenched.
01:55There was cannons, like it was just a lot, but it was so fun.
02:00You know, like it's, I'm, I'm, I think it's fun being covered in fake blood.
02:05I think it's a, it's a cool look in a movie.
02:09I enjoy it.
02:10It's a, you get used to being all sticky and, and, and wet and, and it's just a, I, you
02:19know that if you're working with Matt and Tyler, they're always going to want more.
02:23And I think in this one specifically, because they were going back to their roots and doing
02:27something that was completely theirs and original, they, they went all out, literally.