Film Review — Abigail

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s vampire film is agreeably gruesome, but marketing should have kept the main twist secret

Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon Cinema
4 min readApr 22, 2024

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Credit: Universal

The opening credits of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s new horror film Abigail play out over the titular twelve-year-old ballerina rehearsing Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake in a theatre. This iconic piece…

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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon Cinema

Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com