According to Film Ratings, Universal Pictures’ upcoming supernatural comedy Abigail has officially been given an R-rating by the Motion Picture Association for “strong bloody violence and gore throughout, pervasive language and brief drug use.”
The film is scheduled to arrive in theaters on April 19. Its current theatrical release will pit the vampire movie against Bleecker Street’s Bigfoot comedy Sasquatch Sunset and Henry Cavill’s action comedy The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
“Children can be such monsters. 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,” the official synopsis reads. “In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.”
Who’s involved in Abigail?
Abigail hails from the Radio Silence team consisting of directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who’s best known for their work on Ready or Not and the last two Scream movies. Written by Stephen Shields and Guy Busick, the horror comedy stars Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, Alisha Weir, William Catlett, Kevin Durand, Angus Cloud, and Giancarlo Esposito.
The film is produced by William Sherak, Paul Neinstein, James Vanderbilt, Tripp Vinson, and Chad Villella, with Ron Lynch and Macdara Kelleher executive producing. It is a production by Project X Entertainment and Radio Silence.
