Abigail is a 2024 American vampire horror/comedy/thriller movie directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett from a screenplay written by Stephen Shields and Guy Busick. Based on and a reimagining of the 1936 Universal pictures classic production Dracula’s Daughter, the film stars Alisha Weir as the titular character who is the daughter of Count Dracula, alongside Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, Will Catlett, Kevin Durand, Angus Cloud, and Giancarlo Esposito. After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight.
Easy they think, or is it? In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they are trapped inside the locked house with a little girl who is far from normal. Music for this frenzied blood fest is the work of Brian Tyler who has written a score that is brilliant and fully thematic.
The composer rising to the occasion and enhancing and punctuating this blood-spattered affair with powerful and driving music. It’s an action packed soundtrack that is overflowing with all the usual foreboding and fury that we come to expect for a horror picture, but the composer also greatest and fashions richly dark and malevolent interludes that are lavish and also opulent sounding.
Searing strings, rasping brass booming percussion and epic sounding choral work are all part of this work. It is a score that I recommend without any reservations, and is available now on digital platforms.