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Film Review - Abigail

Film Review - Abigail

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

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Apr 22, 2024
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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 has been used in a number of powerfully moving films; for instance, Billy Elliot (2000) and Of Gods and Men (2011), but here it se…

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