Yahoo Finance First trailer for Abigail with Dan Stevens and Melissa Barrera
We finally know what Melissa Barrera's upcoming monster horror Abigail is all about.
The previously-teased spooky comedy has released a first trailer seeing its star-studded cast, including Barrera, Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens and Marvel's Kathryn Newton, fighting a child vampire who also happens to be a gifted ballerina.
Kicking off as a heist movie, Abigail is loosely inspired by 1936's Dracula's Daughter, and will follow a group of kidnappers realising they have abducted the count's evil spawn.
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Anticipated by the tagline "Children can be such monsters", Abigail is directed by filmmaking duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Ready or Not), who have previously worked with Barrera on Scream (2022) and Scream VI.
Alongside Barrera, Stevens and Newton, the film also features Better Call Saul's Giancarlo Esposito, Locke & Key's Kevin Durand, Lovecraft Country's William Catlett and Euphoria's Angus Cloud in a posthumous appearance following his death in July last year.
The titular on-pointe monster is played by Matilda: The Musical star Alisha Weir.
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Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett have passed the baton for Scream 7, originally to be helmed by Freaky director Christopher Landon. The filmmaker has recently exited the project after the departure of the slasher saga's new stars Barrera and Jenna Ortega.
Barrera, who played protagonist Sam Carpenter in Scream (2022) and Scream VI, exited the project following social media comments made about the Israel-Palestine conflict last November. The same month it was announced that Ortega, who portrays Sam's sister Tara, won't be appearing in the new movie either due to a scheduling conflict.
Abigail is released in US cinemas on April 19. A UK release date is yet to announced. Scream VI is streaming on Paramount+, and the seventh film is in the works.
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