
Given that they worked together on two Scream movies beforehand, it's impossible not to compare Melissa Barrera's newest horror collaboration with directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett to the Ghostface-fronted franchise. Abigail, the trio's latest, is similar in tone, too, as its characters try to make sense of the bonkers situation they've found themselves in through vampire pop culture.
In early reviews, it's been likened to titles such as The Lost Boys and From Dusk Till Dawn for obvious reasons as well, but it turns out the film, which was written by Stephen Shields and Guy Busick, was actually inspired by an unlikely cult classic: The Breakfast Club.