{"id":5881,"date":"2024-04-03T15:35:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gqq.gfl.temporary.site\/website_b2c438e3\/young-ballerina-vampire-abigail-tiptoes-with-bloody-mayhem-in-cinemas-starting-april-17\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T15:35:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:35:37","slug":"young-ballerina-vampire-abigail-tiptoes-with-bloody-mayhem-in-cinemas-starting-april-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/?p=5881","title":{"rendered":"Young Ballerina Vampire &#8220;Abigail&#8221; Tiptoes With Bloody Mayhem In Cinemas Starting April 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathryn Newton, who starred in \u201cLisa Frankenstein\u201d and \u201cAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,\u201d is up against a young hungry ballerina vampire in \u201cAbigail\u201d with Alisha Weir (\u201cRoald Dahl\u2019s Matilda the Musical\u201d) in the titular role for the latest horror hors d\u2019oeuvre movie from Radio Silence, the makers of \u201cScream\u201d (2022) and \u201cScream VI.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JjIJLbt1KBI?si=LSzMShO3KZ63pUPk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbigail\u201d begins with a high-stakes heist, a dangerous mission that, if all goes according to plan, could net six strangers a staggering $50 million. Newton\u2019s character, a hacker named Sammy, is recruited by a sinister fixer along with a ragtag group of strangers that includes a driver, sniper, medic, muscle and the thin man, aka head of ops. Their real identities are kept secret from each other as a kind of insurance \u2013 should one of them be caught, that person would be unable to implicate her or his co-conspirators. Together, they must infiltrate the well-appointed home of a reclusive kingpin who presides over a vast criminal empire. After sedating and abducting his pre-teen ballerina daughter, Abigail, they must safely transport the girl back to a remote mansion, then settle in to wait for the sun to rise and the cash to turn up. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_250049\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250049\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_Alisha-Weir-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" class=\"size-full wp-image-250049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_Alisha-Weir-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_Alisha-Weir-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_Alisha-Weir-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_Alisha-Weir-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_Alisha-Weir-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_Alisha-Weir-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_Alisha-Weir-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_Alisha-Weir-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_Alisha-Weir-1392x928.jpg 1392w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_Alisha-Weir-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_Alisha-Weir-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-250049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alisha Weir in \u201cAbigail\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe thought it was such a fun mashing up of different ideas,\u201d says co-director Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, who directs the film with Tyler Gillett. \u201cIt feels like a heist movie that\u2019s really intimate and character-driven, and it gets hijacked by a vampire movie. We also thought that that character of Abigail, this little girl who you have a lot of sympathy for in the first half of the movie, when she becomes the villain, there\u2019s hopefully some catharsis in that. You want to see her kick everyone\u2019s ass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Weir, who went from playing the lovable Matilda in \u201cRoald Dahl\u2019s Matilda the Musical\u201d to a blood-thirsty young ballerina-vampire, the moments when she was channeling the monster Abigail were the ones she loved best. \u201cWhat really excited me was getting to wear the teeth and all the blood everywhere,\u201d she shares. \u201cGetting to transfer myself into a vampire was a completely different mindset. You\u2019re not just changing to a different person \u2013 you\u2019re changing to a different species. When I had those scenes where I\u2019m killing everyone and I\u2019m enjoying it, I just had to really get into it. I was no one else. I was only Abigail. I was only the vampire.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_250051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250051\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_the-crew-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-250051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_the-crew-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_the-crew-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_the-crew-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_the-crew-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_the-crew-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_the-crew-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_the-crew-1-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_the-crew-1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_the-crew-1-1392x928.jpg 1392w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_the-crew-1-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Abigail_the-crew-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-250051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alisha Weir and Kathryn Newton in Abigail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As for Newton, who was most recently seen in the horror-comedy \u201cLisa Frankenstein,\u201d she says that \u201cAbigail\u201d put her through her paces, requiring her at one point to swim through a pool filled with fake blood and lifelike silicone body parts. Still, she says she was thrilled to add an irreverent vampire flick to her growing r\u00e9sum\u00e9. \u201cI wanted to be a part of that lore,\u201d Newton says. \u201cTo add this to my encyclopedia of horror films, it was time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbigail\u201d also stars Melissa Barrera (\u201cScream\u201d franchise, \u201cIn the Heights\u201d), Dan Stevens (\u201cGaslit,\u201d \u201cLegion\u201d), William Catlett (\u201cBlack Lightning,\u201d \u201cTrue Story\u201d), Kevin Durand (\u201cResident Evil: Retribution,\u201d \u201cX-Men Origins: Wolverine\u201d) and Angus Cloud (\u201cEuphoria,\u201d \u201cNorth Hollywood\u201d) as the kidnappers and Giancarlo Esposito (\u201cBreaking Bad,\u201d \u201dBetter Call Saul,\u201d \u201cThe Mandalorian\u201d) as the mastermind. <\/p>\n<p>Fangs out and get ready for a bloody time at the cinemas when \u201cAbigail\u201dl opens April 17 only in cinemas. #AbigailMoviePH<\/p>\n<p>Follow Universal Pictures PH (FB), UniversalPicturesPH (IG) and UniversalPicsPH (TikTok) for the latest updates on Abigail.<\/p>\n<h6><credit>Photo Credit: Universal Pictures International<\/credit><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH: Kathryn Newton, known for her roles in \u201cLisa Frankenstein,&#8221;  faces off against a young, hungry ballerina vampire played by Alisha Weir in \u201cAbigail,\u201d the latest horror film from Radio Silence, creators of \u201cScream\u201d (2022) and \u201cScream VI.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pageone-online-network"],"pageone_source":{"pageone_source":"","author_name":"PAGEONE Online Network"},"_pageone_source":"","zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}