Following the successful kidnapping of a young girl , a group of criminals bring her to an abandoned mansion just outside the city, where they're instructed to guard her for 24 hours while they ransom her. However, as the night wears on, the group begin to meet violent deaths, all of which points to the young girl they've kidnapped named Abigail ...
From the get-go, 'Abigail' works itself into a corner that makes it next to impossible to get out from. Much like the criminals themselves and their plot, it starts off pretty strong and seems to be working a smart and snappy idea before the thing gets stuck in its own blood and guts and begins to unravel.
On that front, 'Abigail' suffers from pacing issues, not the least of it being this is a movie that could be easily wrapped up with twenty minutes to spare on its 109-minute runtime without half the needless criss-crossing of alliances and backstabbings. The stop-start nature of 'Abigail' means you're never sure if it's trying to build tension, or if it's simply biding its time to the next gleeful explosion of blood and guts.
Though it's burdened by an overly complicated script that's probably gone through far too many rewrites, 'Abigail' works at its best when it's sharpened like a stake and running at full speed. Though it may rely on more horror tropes than an episode of '' and plays them out for far too long, there's enough guts and gore in 'Abigail' to make it a passably enjoyable treat for horror fans.
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