#Vampire film

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I have two things to say about Abigail (2024)

Melissa Barrera is, in fact, my wife. Confirmed. 😌

Abigail's such a little shit, I love her.

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Daughter of Dracula (1972)

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Trio in E-Flat - Franz Schubert (The Hunger Soundtrack)

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On July 26, 1972, Let's Scare Jessica to Death debuted in Japan.

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The Hunger - 1983

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For your consideration: Christopher Lee is one of my favorite Dracula performances of all time; he has the Count's commanding arrogance and predatory disdain honed to a razor's edge. But as much as I love the Hammer films, particularly Horror of Dracula, his best performance as the Count comes in the lesser-known but more faithful Spanish production "Count Dracula" or "El Conde Dracula". It isn't 100% faithful and ends up cutting some budgetary corners toward the end, but tell me you don't love Lee getting to finally, FINALLY sink his fangs into Stoker's dialogue portraying a novel-canon Drac.

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⋆♱✮☽🦇☽✮♰⋆𝕹𝖎𝖓𝖆 𝕳𝖔𝖘𝖘 :𝔴𝔦𝔯 𝔰𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔡𝔦𝔢 𝔫𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔱 𝔦𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔰⋆♱✮☽🦇☽✮♰⋆♡

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ABIGAIL (2024)

💁‍♀️Strong Female Lead

This movie mashes up a bunch of fun tropes: the 24 hour trope, the locked house/no way out trope, the hunted becomes the hunter trope, the perfect strangers trope, the empathetic struggling mother as the lead character trope, etc, etc… There are a few things that really stuck out in a bad way to me, but in that same breath there were a few things that really hung on as being great scene additions to the horror genre. 

⭐⭐⭐.5

Y'all, I got a little bit of beef with this movie. The premise of people constantly working for a high powered vampire in an elaborate ruse to fake kidnap his (actually) adult daughter, have her taken to her special meal house, and then let her have her shenanigans? Well, I call shenanigans. That and I felt the way that they used sunlight just seemed too easy, lest we forget the moon is just a big white ball reflecting the sun back to earth, so how come that’s fine? Even human beings with allergies to the sun cannot go out at night or even be in indirect sunlight. Shenanigans number two.

And the final shenanigans before I praise the film, the fact that they impressed upon us that the mansion they were in was random and that it had nothing to do with Abigail or her family. There was so much lore in the house that was just skipped over because they couldn't have just said “this is their summer home.” You find out halfway through the movie it is her house, but by then all the (creeping) creepiness is gone because you already know Abby is a killer queen!

I heard someone describe this film as Scooby Doo meets Clue and while I don't quite see the Clue aspect (because what mystery was there really, other than how far they could/would stretch the plot) I do feel like the Scooby Doo comparison was apt. Only problem is, if anyone was Scooby it was that goofy guy who got ate right away, so… 😿 (just kidding) 

I think the best players in the movie had to be Sammy, Peter, and Abigail herself. Sammy, bless her heart, went through the worst in all this though which brings me to my favorite part of the film: The Body Pool. Sammy somehow crashed through a door and fell into a swimming pool absolutely filled with corpses. The consistency of the “water” that was floating around her and the bodies is… viscous. As a viewer I was acutely aware that the Jamba Juice from that pool got into her mouth which might have been worse than being submerged in so much death. Tasting it. When asked how many people there were in the pool, she just screamed, which was the correct answer. You know she has to absolutely reek for the rest of the film, right? Well it doesn't matter much, because Sammy gets bit by Abby when she tries to save one of the other kidnappers from Abby. And then the puppetry begins.

Sammy and Peter just had a nice friendship moment, so the stage is set for Abigail to turn Sammy and somehow control her mind, make her dance, and then stab Peter to death. Then to add insult to injury Sammy is full on exploded by the sun. No remains. Wild. RIP Sammy, you had it really fucking rough in this one.

We get to the final fight and it turns out Abby isn't as bad as we thought, she's just very old and very short, both things are bound to make you cranky (perhaps enough to kill several dozen folks and put them in your indoor swimming pool, who can say?). Turns out, one of the kidnappers was a bad guy (shocking, a bad kidnapper?). Abs and the Final Girl teamed up to kill Toothy Terry and barely did (girl power!). And then Daddy arrives (yikes) and Abigail can barely get him to not kill Final Girl (“but daddy, we've already named her Final Girl!”)

The ending really made me want justice for Abigail (and Sammy). Abby was clearly a sad and tortured thing who then tortured others. If her father hadn't created her (turned her into a vampire that is) she wouldn't have done this. She wouldn’t have been capable of it. Part of me doubts they could make it a whole movie but I would love to see Abigail fight her father (and win, of course).

PS the “strong female lead” is for Sammy and Abigail.

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Movie Review: Abigail (2024)

While browsing Peacock’s catalog for something to watch, Abigail (2024) caught my eye. I wasn’t searching for anything specific, but the film’s horror and comedy labels and the image of a young girl in a tutu intrigued me. I watched the trailer and felt like I had already seen most of the movie, as trailers these days often reveal too much. Despite this, I decided to check out the film’s reviews…

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Night of the Sorcerers (1974 from VHS)

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he has chokerized the scar. he has the book in his hands. he is screaming, playing, cynical. he has a wedding ring in at least three frames. he is serving sooooo much.

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at midnight she wanders for blood

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On August 16, 1956, Bela Lugosi died in Los Angeles, California.

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