Abigail: Will the Crew Survive Ending Explained? Pair a heist movie with a vampire movie and you're sure to get one of the wildest endings of all time. That's certainly true of Abigail, the newest horror film from Radio Silence, starring Alisha Ware as a petite assassin kidnapped by a group of thieves who want to use her as bargaining chips for $50 million. While the bone-chilling kills are certainly up to par for anyone who loves immortal, fanged killers, the duo behind I'm Going To Look turn the heist side of things on their head, ramping up the action for a truly bloody finale.
Although at the beginning of the film we think that Abigail is innocent (well, as innocent as an ancient vampire can be), it turns out that she had the upper hand all along, luring the crew to kidnap her and take her to a secluded location, ideal for mass murder. She knows all of their true identities, which they were told to keep secret from each other, and is stronger than all of them, which puts them in the worst possible situation: they are trying to escape from a locked house with a vampire on their tail.
After dispatching most of the team, including Sammy (Kathryn Newton), who herself survived the torture of being turned into a vampire, Abigail manages to corner Joey (Melissa Barrera) and Frank (Dan Stevens), taunting them with the dead bodies of their fellow believers and proving that there is no escape from them. All seems lost until a glimmer of hope appears in the form of Lambert (Giancarlo Esposito), who has mysteriously returned despite his promise to stay away from the team until Abigail's father pays her ransom. The remaining two criminals think they actually have a way out of their undead prison... until that meeting goes awry, too.
New vampires lurk in the shadows
Lambert, like Abigail, was hiding something from the rest of the team: he was also a vampire, converted by the father of a little vampire many years ago. Now Joey and Frank find themselves between a rock and a hard place: vampires are both behind them and in front. Lambert, however, is slightly more merciful than the greedy Abigail, and gives them the opportunity to become converts themselves, devoting themselves to a life of crime for the rest of eternity.
While Joey, unsurprisingly, decides to retain his humanity, Frank decides that he would rather live forever as a corrupt, sadistic monster than die a hero, and allows Lambert to turn him. The process is quite bloody, but ultimately successful (after a brief scare that Lambert just killed him and moved on to Joey), and the blood and guts really hit the fan when Frank enters the scene with fangs. He takes it upon himself to immediately deal with Lambert in an attempt to put himself at the top of the food chain - bad news for Joey, who tries to escape but finds himself embroiled in a fight with the immortal psychopath.
Frank, in order to discourage the vampires from fighting, stabs Joey in the shoulder, leaving her to watch helplessly as he plans to kill her using his new power, meaning that she now has two undead monsters out for her blood. instead of one. But just when things seem to be going for the worst, the most unlikely of saviors appears: Abigail, wounded but unwilling to let another vampire take over her territory.
Abigail and Joey team up for the final battle
Thus begins the film's climactic final battle, in which Frank tries to do what Abigail did to Sammy - bite her and try to control her mind with a blood rush. It's a bloody fight to the very end, but eventually (and perhaps unsurprisingly) Abigail and Joey team up to take down a common enemy, with Joey feigning mind control so Abigail can destroy him. She gets her last line on the microphone - "it takes a long time to learn how to do cool shit" - right before Frank explodes, because it wouldn't be a Radio Silence movie without buckets and buckets of blood.
Then comes perhaps the biggest twist in the entire film: Abigail's absent father, played by Matthew Goode, appears. Mentioned numerous times throughout the film, including in set pieces and a couple of monologues from Abigail herself, he bursts into the house to find his daughter and Joey surrounded by the remains of a variety of brand new vampires, looking sinister and not at all impressive.
It is implied that he is Dracula, although he is only referred to as his father (including in the credits). He returned to check on Abigail after her desperate attempts to get his attention by luring the team to the estate. He sees Joey as nothing more than dinner, but Abigail begs him to let her live, having saved her own life moments before.
The father, as befits a vampire, agrees, if only to regain his daughter’s favor. Joey says goodbye to Abigail and leaves the mansion, limping towards the car that brought her there. She turns the key in the ignition and drives away, returning to her own son, whom she also left behind, in the closest thing to a happy ending in a horror movie.
Is this the right ending for Abigail?
By setting Joey free, Radio Silence puts a classic slasher bow on what is being marketed as a vampire story. But that's probably for the best, considering that Abigail feels less like a monster movie and more like a classic slasher film. Although Weir is amazing as Abigail, she is often relegated to the background, and it is only when she kills someone that she has the chance to fully vampirize, aside from the first reveal of her nature when she is shot in the forehead and moments later sits there in a bloodthirsty rage. Replace her with any killer, monster or not, and the story would likely be about the same, minus Frank's demise, which ends up feeling more vampiric than much of Abigail's story.
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