This Horror Movie On Amazon Prime Is Perfect For Fans Of M3GAN

Was your favorite part of M3GAN when M3GAN did TikTok dances in the hallway with a machete? Then we have the perfect movie for you.

Allow me to paint you a picture. First, imagine the fierce and dramatic ballet scenes of Black Swan. Now imagine that Kirsten Dunst’s unhinged child character in Interview with the Vampire is the one doing the ballet. Now picture that this is all happening in the house from The Haunting of Hill House, and that a rather slow bodyguard who looks like Elon Musk is there. Finally, add the journalist from Detective Pikachu. That’s Abigail! The movie, which is on Amazon Prime Video, is a perfect undemanding watch for horror fans, and with just enough camp to keep things interesting. Let me explain further.

Warning: If you don’t want spoilers, stop here and go buy some stocks. They’re so low right now!

1. Alisha Weir’s performance 

One of the fastest shortcuts to comedy is making children do grown-up things. Put a baby in a suit and laugh for a minute; teach a five-year-old to curse and laugh for a lifetime. However, during the filming of Abigail, a then-13-year-old Alisha Weir was tasked with harnessing the emotions of a centuries-old vampire. Not your typical grown-up. In the context of the final cinematic product, this means that viewers get to watch an angelic preteen girl manipulate, cheat, and murder – anything to get what she wants. It’s absolutely wild, and Weir sells every sardonic, cynical, vicious (and very grown-up) line. She also does her own ballet and stunts in the movie, which include unhinged leaping, hand-to-hand combat, and flying! (She can’t actually fly, since she’s human – I think – but everything else is all Weir!)

2. The camp factor

Did I mention that this is about a preteen who is actually a centuries-old vampire? Abigail teases its premise well into Act One, but savvy viewers already know that the movie’s 12-year-old Abigail is not as sweet as she seems. Not before long, she’s baring her teeth, severing body parts, flying demonically through the air, and performing expert ballet moves en pointe. As I mentioned, this is a perfect movie for fans of M3GAN, especially since Abigail frequently performs her lovely ballet moves while heinously devouring people. This is sometimes hilarious!

3. Expanded vampire lore

One clever move by screenwriters Stephen Shields and Guy Busick is to have the characters of Abigail be savvy about vampire lore. Upon realizing that Abigail is a bloodthirsty antichrist, they run through every pop culture vampire cliché they’ve ever heard and throw everything at the wall. Garlic, stakes, daylight … Any of it could work, for all they know. They’ve never dealt with vampires before! This makes for fun hijinks. However, the movie submits its own entries to the Vampire Hall of Fame, creating new rules surrounding vampiric hypnotism and possession. For instance, one character learns that time, and not toxic unearned confidence, is key to mastering the vampiric art of hypnotism. We appreciate a good parameter! Also, the vampires of Abigail are very explosive, which is fun. 

4. The setting

Like a cursed Hearst Castle, the mansion in Abigail is packed with curios and twisty passageways, generating ample opportunities for jump scares and epic battles. Plus, little details here and there pile onto the lore of Abigail. See: the hideous painting of a suspiciously evil-looking twelve-year old, or the grotesque statue of a spooky father and daughter reigning over the library.

5. The cast chemistry

Alisha Weir is not the only heavyweight on this cast. While Melissa Barrera is compelling as the movie’s emotional center, she has plenty of support from Dan Stevens’ cocky and corrupt Frank, Kathryn Newton’s hateful and privileged Sammy, Kevin Durand’s dim and stubborn bodyguard, and the late Angus Cloud’s spaced out sociopath Dean. 

Durand, by the way, is the one who looks like Elon Musk. Also, the Internet apparently agrees, because I just Googled Kevin Durand + Elon Musk and discovered that Durand gets mistaken for Musk on a regular basis. Come to think of it, I just hatched a plan to kidnap Musk and secretly replace him with the non-evil Kevin Durand so that the American government does not collapse before the end of 2025. Who’s with me? Oh, never mind. My lawyers are now telling me that I can’t legally engage in conspiracy on the Internet. So, I would like to officially say that I was just joking! (But I’m not.)

Anyway, Abigail is a pretty fun time! You can watch it on Amazon Prime Video.