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In article <v00vjm$3prh1$1@dont-email.me>,
 Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

> Abigail (theatrical) New horror movie about a group of kidnappers 
> (including Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kevin Durand, and Katheryn 
> Newton) who are hired by Giancarlo Esposito to kidnap a little girl for 
> ransom. But the little girl (Alisha Weir) turns out to be a blood 
> thirsty vampire who enjoys playing with her food before slaughtering 
> them. This was surprisingly good. I think mostly because I went in 
> expecting a paint by numbers PG-13 jump scare flick, and this turned out 
> to be a hard "R" gore fest. And the characters were generally smart and 
> didn't do obviously dumb things. It also borrowed heavily from "Fright 
> Night" but that is meant as a compliment. This was probably a better 
> "Fright Night" remake than the actual "Fright Night" remake! Although 
> it obvious has a different plot with the whole kidnapping thing, there 
> are some definitely and welcome similarities.

I saw this yesterday and I give it an enthusiastic recommend. This was 
horror the way horror used to be done. None of this soft PG-13 horror 
nonsense that pervades the genre these days.

The actress playing the little girl was fantastic. Too often child 
actors are chosen for their look, not their ability and the result is 
suboptimal. This little girl had both looks and ability and really sold 
the role.

Melissa Barrera is still a smokeshow.

Kevin Durand is starting to really look old.

It's a good thing Buffy's vampires only exploded into dust when staked. 
She'd have had a helluva wardrobe budget if she'd had to deal with this 
variety of vampire on a regular basis.

The only thing I'd complain about with this movie is the marketing, 
which gave away the 'surprise' in all the trailers and posters. I wish 
I'd have gone into this the way I did all those years ago with FROM DUSK 
TILL DAWN-- thinking it was a crime heist movie and suddenly have it 
turn into a supernatural horror story out of nowhere.

It was a real WTF moment when Santanico Pandemonium (Salma Hayek) 
suddenly turned into a vampire in the middle of what up to that point 
had been a story about two brothers on a crime spree.