Abigail

A crew of small-time criminals takes on a job that looks simple: snatch a twelve-year-old girl and hold her overnight in an isolated mansion so her wealthy father will pay fifty million dollars. The girl, Abigail, is a ballet dancer whose father is a powerful figure in the underworld. The captors are led by Frank and include Joey, Sammy, Peter and Rickles. What begins as a straightforward kidnapping turns into something far worse, as the group is sealed inside the house and its members start dying one by one. They come to understand that the child they are guarding is not an ordinary girl, and that she is the most dangerous thing in the building.

Abigail is a 2024 horror thriller with comic and crime elements, directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett from a screenplay by Guy Busick and Stephen Shields. It is the seventh feature in the directing pair's filmography, following Ready or Not, Scream and Scream VI. Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Alisha Weir, William Catlett, Kathryn Newton and Kevin Durand star. Made for about twenty-eight million dollars, it took in roughly forty-three million worldwide.

On IMDb the film holds 6.5 out of 10 from around 117,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.6 from a much smaller pool. A critics' rating of 6.8 from 226 reviews is slightly above both audience scores.