Ep990: ABIGAIL (2024) - LIVE Round Table Review

Kicking the Seat

Just when Earth's Mightiest Critics thought they'd seen it all, here comes the we-kidnapped-a-ballerina-vampire movie, Abigail!

Six mercenaries are contracted to kidnap the daughter of a crime kingpin. But when these strangers have to spend 24 hours in a safehouse with their new charge, they quickly discover that sweet little Abigail is not what she seems.

Yes, it's "Reservoir Dogs with vampires". But is the latest film from co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Ready or Not, Scream VI) a much-needed transfusion of disparate genres, or an anemic waste of a bloody-good concept?

Join us as we drain every last bit of analysis from this splatterific twist on the heist-hideout flick--and and take your questions, comments, and SuperChats!

Subscribe, like, and comment to the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel, and check out kickseat.com for multiple movie podcasts each week!

Show Links

• Watch the Abigail trailer.

• Support all of Earth's Mightiest Critics at their various outlets:

  • Check out Mark "The Movie Man" Krawczyk's The Spoiler Room Podcast.

  • Keep up with Jeff York's criticism and caricatures at The Establishing Shot.

  • Get seated with The Blonde in Front!

  • Follow David Fowlie's film criticism at Keeping It Reel.

  • Get educated with Don Shanahan at Every Movie Has a Lesson…

    • ...And Film Obsessive

    • ...and the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.

  • Make Nice with Mike Crowley of You'll Probably Agree.

  • Keep up with Annie Banks at Chuck Load of Comics.

    • ...and Movieweb

  • And stir things up with Will Johnson of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.