Fangs a lot, kid

Published date19 April 2024
Publication titleDaily Star (England)
As children, we're told to stop playing with our food. The tween menace in this horror thriller from directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett has been playing with her food for years - centuries, in fact

Ballet-obsessed moppet Abigail is especially thrilled when her preferred main meal - a terrified human - brandishes a sharpened stake or clove of garlic shortly before she drains them dry of delicious life force with her impressively tapered fangs.

This movie puts a morbidly humorous spin on the vampire mythology peddled by Bram Stoker, Anne Rice, Charlaine Harris and Stephenie Meyer by trapping ''

six strangers inside a Gothic mansion with the 12-year-old girl (Alisha Weir) they have just abducted for a $50million ransom.

She'll her against other rip out throats

Except the seemingly helpless child, pleading for her life with tear-filled eyes, is a manipulative creature of the night, who will turn her captors against each other then hungrily rip out their throats.

What we have here is a satisfyingly gory game of cat and mice, reminiscent of Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett's 2019 film Ready Or Not, which played hide and seek with cinema audiences before the duo shared...

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