How ‘Abigail’ and ‘Scream’ Helped Radio Silence Craft a Worthy Sequel to ‘Ready or Not’

In 2019, Searchlight Pictures released a small horror film called “Ready or Not,” starring Samara Weaving and made on a mere $6 million. That small horror film grossed nearly $60 million worldwide and launched its directors — collectively known as Radio Silence — into the echelon of in-demand filmmakers, who were then tapped to reinvent the “Scream” franchise before tackling another original of their own in vampire film “Abigail.”

But now Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett return...