Abigail (2024)

is this some sort of world record shortest film in history, or did the trailer just give away literally every single aspect, beat, plot point, etc?

I mean unless this is secretly a comedy? Having watched the trailer I have seen the entire film basically and have no inclination to pay money and watch a 2 hour version of it.

I'll go if King Diamond did the soundtrack.

Caliane said:

i mean, it seemed like it was overtly a comedy in the trailer there.

what other show/movie did this same story recently? "shes your problem now" iirc was a quote? I think that one was a demon pretending to be a little girl.
there was also a similar one with a werewolf.

Might have been part of horror anthologies. black mirror the werewolf one?

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I mean you would think but according to TMDB it says "Horror, Thriller"

As far as horror/thrillers go, the "you think she's a little girl, but she' actually a ______" is basically it's own fucking sub-genre by now. Fill in the blank, "Demon/ghost/possessed voodoo doll/horny 30 year old psycho killer with rare genetic disease that makes her appear as a child" etc etc. Yeah I think Orphan started (or at least revitalized) this sub-genre of horror.

The "thriller" portion of the horror/thriller is the suspense and build up to the reveal of what _____ is. The fact that they outright state exactly what's going on 5 seconds in to the trailer means this is either mislabeled and should be "horror comedy" or it's a 90s slasher flick and it's nothing but gore porn with maybe a weak jump scare or two.

Like I know going in to nightmare on elm street or friday the 13th that ___ is some sort of supernatural entity (dream demon/zombie) who's going around murdering teenagers or camp counselors, knowing Freddy Krueger or Jason or Mike Myers or whoever is the bad guy, that knowledge doesn't "spoil" the film because it's not trying to be some suspense filled psychological thriller, it's not even really horror. its a cheesy slasher flick.

OneofOne said:

It looks fun, why overthink it?

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Welcome to the FOH, pal!

Ome said:

Had a tough time finishing this movie. Only way I can imagine truly enjoying this is being very high and/or drunk because its an oofer.

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Yeah I watched it yesterday and was so bored I didn’t even bother to find the thread. No idea how you take this concept and make it such a drag, but here you go.

The whole crew were just so bad. Each character / archetype was hyper Flanderized or something. The humor never worked. The last fight had 10 different instances of them jumping on the guy from behind instead of just stabbing him. Over and over.

This is already more words than the movie is worth.