Press Release USHE Press Release: Abigail (2024) (Digital) (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

ARRIVING AT HOME FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME A BLOODY HORROR COMEDY TO SINK YOUR TEETH INTO

CERTIFIED FRESH ON ROTTEN TOMATOES OWN OR RENT ON DIGITAL MAY 7, 2024 THE ONLY WAY TO WATCH AT HOME WHILE STILL IN THEATERS FROM UNIVERSAL PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT

Universal City, California, May 6, 2024 – The horror-fan-favorite director duo, Radio Silence, returns to deliver a new vision of vampires in ABIGAIL, available for the first time exclusively on digital platforms where you can buy or rent beginning tomorrow, May 7, 2024, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and regarded as “a Bloody Blast” (The Detroit News), directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillet elevate the vampire genre challenging expectations at every blood-stained corner. ABIGAIL boasts beloved-horror cast Melissa Barrera (Scream VI, In The Heights) and Kathryn Newton (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Freaky, Lisa Frankenstein), as well as Dan Stevens (Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, “Downton Abbey”), Giancarlo Esposito (“Breaking Bad”, The Usual Suspects, “Parish”), Alisha Weir (Roald Dahl’s Matilda, Don’t Leave Home), Kevin Durand (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Robin Hood), the late Angus Cloud (Your Lucky Day, “Euphoria”), and William Catlett (A Thousand and One, Lovecraft County). Radio Silence, the filmmakers behind the horror hits Ready or Not, Scream (2022) and Scream VI, bring a brash and bloodthirsty new vision of vampires with ABIGAIL. A heist team is hired by a mysterious fixer to kidnap the daughter of a powerful underworld figure. They must guard the 12-year-old ballerina for one night to net a $50 million ransom. As the captors start to dwindle one by one, they discover to their mounting terror that they're locked inside an isolated mansion with no ordinary little girl.

FILMMAKERS: Cast: Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, Will Catlett, Kevin Durand, Angus Cloud, Alisha Weir, and Giancarlo Esposito Music By: Brian Tyler Editor: Michael P. Shawver Director Of Photography: Aaron Morton NZCS Executive Producer: Ron Lynch Produced By: William Sherak p.g.a., James Vanderbilt, Paul Neinstein, Tripp Vinson, Chad Villella p.g.a. Written By: Stephen Shields and Guy Busick Directed By: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett