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Does it make sense that Abigail. . .


. . . more or less turned good at the end and allowed Joey to walk free? Is this character growth credible?

Earlier in the film, even after Joey had been kind to her, she seemed to have no interest in sparing Joey. After all, she's a fucking vampire who had killed so many people that there was a pool full of bodies in the basement, and clearly killing people is just what she does.

For her to suddenly change and show some humanity made me raise and eyebrow and wonder if that had been earned. Or to put it in pro wrestling terms, the face turn felt a little jarring to me.

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I think it is to show that, even as a vampire, she still had a shred of humanity.

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If that was the intention, I think they should have at least shown hints of that humanity earlier in the film. Instead, we see her only as manipulative and blood-thirsty, even toward the one person who was being very kind to her.

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I was fine with it as they both worked together against frank. The pinky signified a bargain.

The alternatives would be
Abigail kills Joey, people are upset
Joey kills Abigail, people get upset because Abigail killed everyone else... even in a group attack.

This seemed like the best calculated ending.

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I didn't mind it but I also felt like it would've been better if they had shown some bit of goodness in her earlier in the movie. It would help if we had an inkling of the fact that she still had a conscience and the ability to reason morally. But instead, even when we see Joey being kind to her, she is clearly intent on killing everyone.

I guess the one thing that might hint at Abigail not being evil incarnate is the fact that, as far as we can tell, she only feeds on those who betrayed her father and not on random people out in the wider world.

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I didn't see it as her turning "good". She took a liking to one of her planned victims, and the two of them had to become a team to survive at the end. They bonded over that.

I don't think she really changed her ways too much, though.

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lots of things didn't make a whole lot of sense
Those shutters should have been made of metal - if it was possible to break one up with a wooden stick and get light beams into the vamp, you got a real planning issues in your playground lol

Also - you know how that black dude got taken out? It was done in a second - without a sound. At no point did that little girl display that sort of ability during the actual fights. So, how did she do it? How did he get that huge wound on his face and neck without a sound and within a second? It made me think that there was an alien-like creature out there, but alas. Anyways, plenty of inconsistent BS in the film - it's a fun film, but it had those sorts of issues all over.


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Yeah, the black dude seemed to be killed by a ghost or something. I was thinking the movie was going in the Poltergeist direction instead of Vampires

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