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Detective Adam Barrett, better known by his alias, Frank, is the secondary antagonist of the 2024 horror comedy film Abigail. He is a corrupt cop turned criminal who is hired to kidnap Abigail Lazar, the daughter of an underworld figure, and hold her for ransom, but soon learns that she is a vampire, before betraying his allies and becoming a vampire himself.
He was portrayed by Dan Stevens.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Pure Evil?[]
- He was formerly a corrupt cop who was assigned to infiltrate Lazar's empire but found he enjoyed being a criminal. Despite this he continued playing both sides, holding off on arresting three of Lazar's men for months and only finally doing so for his own benefit, and also showed no remorse when they were subsequently killed to silence them, even though his self-serving actions led to their deaths.
- He abandoned his family in order to become a career criminal, pretending he did it for their safety when in truth he didn't care for them at all.
- He has no problem accepting the job to kidnap Abigail, who he thinks is an innocent child, and bullies Joey into going along with it when she objects. Furthermore, the fact that he calls the gang "his crew" suggests that he was the one who initially took on the job and recruited the other members, making him primarily responsible for the kidnapping.
- Of all the kidnappers, he is the most willing to torture and murder Abigail even when he thought she was a harmless child. When kidnapping her, he tries to punch her in the face and has to be restrained from doing so by Joey, he later holds a gun to her head and screams threats at her just because she saw his face, and when she lies about him being "Valdez" he pushes the other kidnappers to "get rough" with her, and shows no objection when Peter holds her at gunpoint and is seemingly about to shoot her, showing he has no problem killing her.
- When Abigail points out later that he was willing to beat, torture and possibly kill her when he thought she was just an innocent child, he gives an obviously insincere apology.
- He makes a deal with Lambert to become a vampire so they can rule Lazar's criminal empire, then immediately backstabs and murders Lambert so he can have it all to himself. He then attacks Joey and sadistically tells her he'll make her his slave and force her to murder her own son, who's just a child. This gets even Abigail (who he'd left for dead) to invoke standards against him and she teams up with Joey to stop him.
- He overpowers Joey and bites her (which would have turned her into a vampire as well had he not been killed) then tries to mind-control her into murdering Abigail, trying to kill them both himself when this fails.
- Out of all the characters in the film he is the only one with no redeeming traits, and of all the vampire characters he's the most willing to kill completely innocent people, and the only one who explicitly threatens to kill a child. It's also likely that had he taken over Lazar's empire he would have become just as much of a threat as them, if not worse.
What Prevents Him from being Pure Evil?[]
- He fails the in-universe heinous standard to Abigail and her father who have an implied body count of hundreds at least, and while it's likely he would have done the same if not worse had he succeeded in taking over their empire, it's not outright confirmed so he relies too much on fridge horror. That said, it's a fairly minor prevention since he lacks their resources for most of the film and is stopped before he could kill as many as they did.
- Even with the age comparison, he still doesn't stand out, as he was a crooked cop beforehand and had more than enough time to rack up a higher body count.
External Links[]
- Frank on the Villains Wiki
