Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov reinvent the time-honored genre and present the terrifying creatures of the night as they were meant to be experienced — as fierce, visceral, intense and bloodthirsty. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter brings to the screen the secret life of America’s favorite president… As history’s greatest hunter of the undead.
Screenplay writer Seth Grahame-Smith, adapting his own novel, figured out clever ways to interweave Honest Abe’s vampire-slaughtering obsession with documented fact about our 16th president: Lincoln’s mom died when he was a kid. He chopped wood with an ax, worked as a store clerk while cramming for his law exams and endured the death of his young son during the Civil War.
BRAVO
Historical facts deftly intertwined with Lincoln’s fantastical secret life & spectacularly staged fight scenes.
BOO
Bland characters with no sense of humor.
”Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” a Twentieth Century Fox release, is rated NC16 for violence. Running time: 105 minutes.
3 / 5