Vampire Horror Comedy Episodes

This week on Bad Dads Film Review, the dads review Abigail (2024), Radio Silence’s blood-soaked vampire/crime-comedy about a kidnapped ballerina who turns out to be much more than a bargaining chip. The discussion kicks off with the film’s biggest structural problem: the marketing gives away the vampire twist almost immediately. Reegs frames the intended joke as the characters thinking they are in a slick, quippy heist movie while the audience already knows they are actually trapped in a quippy horror film. Dan, who had avoided the poster details as much as possible, got closer to the intended reveal experience and was expecting something more like The Omen or The Ring. The dads walk through the setup: Abigail’s Swan Lake opening, the assembling of the anonymous criminal crew, Giancarlo Esposito’s Lambert giving everyone Rat Pack aliases, and the group discovering that the girl’s father is the mythical underworld figure Kristof Lazaar. From there, the episode tracks the film’s g…