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Warning : This article contains spoilers forAbigail(2024 ) .
InAbigail , what starts as the covetous kidnapping of a powerful man ’s daughter turn into a heroic , informer - in - a - maze conflict for survival . After two of their squad extremity are savagely remove , Joey ( Scream 6‘s Melissa Barrera ) , Frank ( Dan Stevens ) , Sammy ( Kathryn Newton ) , and Peter ( Kevin Durand ) realise that Abigail ( Alisha Weir ) , the footling girl they were hired to nobble , is n’t an ingenuous danseuse but a centuries - onetime vampire . In case that was n’t bad enough , Abigail reveals that she specifically chose all of them as her latest target , hire them under false pretenses , and entice them to an old family estate so that she could vote down them for their past crimes against her forefather ’s criminal imperium .
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All four ofAbigail‘s core protagonist do their good to survive their lamia captor ’s plan of attack , but finally Frank and Joey are the only mankind left standing . Just when it look like Abigail may have them cornered , though , a mystic passage opens and the two characters find Lambert ( Giancarlo Esposito ) , Frank ’s once - rely contact , hold back for them in a hidden security measure elbow room . With his fangs bared , Lambert explain that Abigail change state him into a lamia two years prior and , by threatening his family , push him to put up Frank , Joey , and all of the fallen extremity of their crew .
A literally explosive finale
However , rather than resist by and rent them decease , Lambert offers to twist Frank , the most selfish and base - gamy of the film ’s human characters , into a fully self-reliant vampire so that they can work together to take Abigail and her father down . Frank accepts the offer — let Lambert sting him and then volitionally drinking his vampiric blood . Once Frank ’s transformation is pure , he afterwards obliterate Lambert , drains Abigail of some of her parentage , and begins to stalk Joey .
A fucking fight ensues between Joey and Frank , who wants to call on her into a lamia he can assure . A weakened Abigail intervenes and tells Joey she ’ll allow her live if she facilitate her ruin Frank . The two team up and , while Frank in brief believes at one spot that he has successfully turn Joey into his first vampire servant , she fob him and pin him to the priming coat with Abigail . As the two slowly drive a bet into Frank ’s affectionateness , Abigail tells Frank that his error was thinking he could now get the hang technique that take every vampire years to learn . One well - timed comedic rhythm later , Frank is transfix and his body literally explodes — covering Abigail and Joey in his ancestry .
How does Abigail end?
In the moment that follow , Abigail tells Joey to leave and find oneself her son , whose absence has obsess her throughout the film . While Joey wonder whether her son will forgive her for forsake him , Abigail tells her that sometimes all a child wants is for their parent to show up . Unfortunately , it ’s at that very moment that Abigail ’s Fatherhood , Dracula himself ( playact by Matthew Goode ) , walks in and almost vote down Joey in a fit of parental rage . When Abigail step between them and tells her founder that Joey was there to protect her when he was n’t , his demeanor damp . He secern Joey to leave , warning her that it ’s “ almost time for dinner . ”
Joey wisely listen to Abigail ’s father , leave their manor - twist - home - of - horrors behind . After get back into the same van that she and her now - dead colleagues used to get there , Joey unpack her ice lolly from the celluloid ’s prologue and drive by into the dark . In doing so , she sendsAbigailout in nervy fashion — sucking on a piece of candy rather than another person ’s origin . It ’s an appropriately lighthearted conclusion to a film that does n’t have much to say and is even dumber than it looks but which is also , to its credit , a whole mickle of playfulness .
Abigailis now playing in theatre .
