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Trailer for ‘Memento Mori’ Recalls Attack That Led to Coma
Memento Mori, which premiered at the Bruxelles International Fantastic Film Festival and was introduced on the market of Cannes by the international sales agency EuroObscura, now has an official trailer.
Memento Mori is a psychological thriller focusing on a teenage girl in a coma as she relives the events that led to her trauma.
Memento Mori is the first feature movie helmed by Michael Vermaercke, a young filmmaker from Flanders who has directed various short movies, the latest of which, The Disturber, won the first prize at the International Vampire Film Festival in Transylvania in 2016.
In the words of the director, “the film is about the fears and insecurities” of teenagers who are about to enter adulthood.
Produced by Piet Sonck for the independent production company Gypsy Productions, the movie centers around the character of Fleur (lead actress Charlotte De Wulf), a teenager whose life seems perfect: beautiful, popular, rich. Yet she has a dark secret which is revealed during a pool party, where a violent incident happens that will end with her in a coma.
The title comes from the Latin sentence meaning “remember you will die,” a reference to the condition of teenagers who are enjoying a promiscuous and vital life while approaching the end of adolescence.
Now in its second week of release, the Radio Silence-directed Abigail is the third Universal Monsters vampire movie released in the last year, coming along in the wake of period piece The Last Voyage of the Demeter and horror-comedy Renfield. All three films have struggled at the box office, but Abigail at least has some good news to celebrate this week.
Renfield came along first in April 2023, ending its run with $26.4 million, while Last Voyage of the Demeter ended its own run with a mere $21.7 million. The vampire ballerina movie Abigail has already outgrossed both films, hitting $28.5 million at the worldwide box office this week.
The bad news is that Abigail‘s reported production budget was $28 million, so it seems unlikely to make a profit at the box office when you factor in the marketing spend and everything else on top of that figure. And that’s especially a bummer because Abigail is such a crowd-pleasing good time, with most horror fans agreeing that it’s one of this year’s best movies thus far.
The Universal Monsters brand has been struggling in the wake of Leigh Whannell’s hit The Invisible Man back in 2020, with these smaller spinoff movies failing to make their mark at the box office. Maybe it was never a good idea to release three low-key Dracula movies within the span of a single year, or maybe audiences just aren’t into vampires in general right now.
Whatever the case may be, Universal was smart to re-team with Whannell for a reimagining of the Wolf Man, which is howling its way into theaters in 2025. There’s a good chance that movie will blow the box office totals of Demeter, Renfield and Abigail out of the water, especially since it’s been a while since a Hollywood werewolf movie roared its way onto the big screen.
In the meantime, we expect Abigail will be coming home soon. Stay tuned for a date.
In Abigail, “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. 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.”
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