Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

If you’re going into the film “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” and expecting brilliant filmmaking, cogent storytelling or a serious examination of American history, you’re an idiot. It’s called “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” for crying out loud.

My fellow film critics and I tend to use previous films of a similar genre to compare and contrast the worthiness of the latest entry in that genre. However, when your film is titled Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, there isn’t much hope of finding a...

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has a heck of a concept. Our 16th president slaying vampires? Wow. Give 20th Century Fox credit for greenlighting this one. Even though it's based on a best-selling book, turning that conceit into a big-budget summer...

If “history prefers legends to men,” as “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” claims, wouldn't history books have been delighted to include the legend of the time a vampire picked up a horse and threw it at one of the country's most renowned leaders?

"History prefers legends to men," intones Honest Abe at the beginning of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and despite comically purporting to take the opposite stance, so too does this ludicrous movie, which rewrites the saga of America's 16th...

The first in what I dearly hope is a trilogy to include "Calvin Coolidge: Exorcist" and "George W. Bush: Werewolves Is Comin'," the frenzied and occasionally diverting mashup "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" rewrites American history so that the Civil...

For moviegoers who are still unfamiliar with author (now screenwriter) Seth Grahame-Smith, the idea of an undead-slaying Honest Abe might seem especially ridiculous – but that’s only because Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter beat Grahame-Smith’s other...

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter follows the title character (Benjamin Walker) as he discovers that vampires are planning to take over the United States (and are, in fact, responsible for the death of his beloved mother), with the movie subsequently...

At a certain point in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Yes, you read that right), the future President's mentor shows the young man a map of the empire the vampires have established for themselves in the United States, and it will come as little...

Seth Grahame-Smith’s 2010 historical mash-up novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter sums up its own straight-faced embrace of the ridiculous in its title, but for those...

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter opens with a stark black screen. A Bible quote slowly fades in, something along the lines of “And I have named thee Abraham, for you shall be the father of many nations” or some such ridiculousness.

If you're even remotely considering buying a ticket to see "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," then you're a prime candidate to enjoy it. The title alone tells you everything you need to know, so if that appeals to you, then you'll probably enjoy the...

Midway through Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter our hero-- yes, the very same 16th President-- goes in pursuit of the man he's wanted to kill since he was a child, a vampire (played by Marton Csokas) who killed young Abe's mother.

While it's no surprise to say that a movie titled Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is indeed as ludicrous in execution as the actual concept sounds, the sheer fact that this thing actually got made in the first place is remarkable, if not also slightly...

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter draws its narrative life force from the history-lesson mashup of the same name published by Seth Grahame-Smith in 2010, a moderately clever literary-fad follow-up to the author's own Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Don’t let the stupid title dissuade you from seeing “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” Let the stupid plot, the stupid history, the stupid action scenes, the stupid trivializing of slavery . . .

The problem with coming up with the title first and the story later is that sometimes you don’t get around to coming up with the story. “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” seems to be an example of this, promising so much campy-awesome historical-fiction...

There's a certain level of tongue-in-cheek expectation to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The thought of our 16th President swinging an axe through blood-suckers instead of cherry trees and slave laws - figuratively - could bring hearty laughs to fans...

If you're going to see a movie (or read a book, for that matter) called "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter", you have to go in with a certain set of expectations. And typically, the best you can hope for is that they are met.

As much of a mixed bag as its portmanteau title suggests, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” is both terribly silly and a lot of fun. Delivering fewer consistent frights and more laughs than some might wish from a flick about bloodsucking ghouls...

Other than its campy title, not much about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is fun. The movie goes about its bloody business as solemnly as our 16th president went about his, turning historical fact into supernatural fiction that Ken Burns wouldn't dare to

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is an insanely absurd fun mash up of horror and history that manages to be simultaneously brilliant and ridiculous. Turning our 16th president into the 19th century version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer may not seem like...

As the title suggests, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter offers an alternate history in which the 16th President of the United States was not just a great orator and leader who helped lead the country through civil war and ended centuries of legalized...

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is an enjoyable slice of fantasy nonsense that succeeds thanks to terrific action sequences, impressive special effects, strong performances and an inventive script. Worth seeing.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - those four words, strung together in that order, sound like a lot of fun, don't they?It's a totally ridiculous premise, this notion that the 16th U.S. President lived a whole 'nother secret life, prowling about at...

YOU don’t expect much from a picture called Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (at least I didn’t) but the picture is the surprise of the week, a terrifically entertaining, well made and crackpot action-adventure that posits Lincoln (Benjamin Walker)...

Mixing real historical facts with a preposterous make-believe premise, Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov delivers a silly biopic-meets-horror movie in the curiously titled Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

I remember when I first saw the trailer for this movie a few months ago. The entire audience burst out laughing when the title came up on the screen. It was the spontaneous laugh of a group of people who couldn't believe the audacity of what they were...

And here all this time you thought that the Civil War was fought over states’ rights and that “peculiar institution” called slavery, that the Underground Railroad was a network of escape routes across the Mason-Dixon and the southern plantation system...

Director Timur Bekmambetov’s visual flair is a vision to behold, but a uncompelling script holds the sixteenth president back from a better term at the box office.

History tells us that Abraham Lincoln was a great man. What it doesn’t tell us is that, long before he became President he had a little side job. Seems the old rail splitter put that handiness with an axe to good use and killed him some vampires!

In this new film, don’t describe the 16th U.S. President as “The Great Emancipator,” call him “The Great Kick-Ass-ipator.” In this high concept romp, the President who presided over the Civil War is now winning it single-handedly by fighting his...

You either get it or you don’t. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER is an insanely absurd fun mash-up of horror and history that manages to be simultaneously brilliant and ridiculous. Turning our 16th president into the 19th century version of...

In the title sequence of the great early-’80s comedy series “Police Squad,” Abraham Lincoln is seen dodging Booth’s bullet at the Ford Theater, then turning and firing James Bond-style.

So, Abraham Lincoln – the 16th president of the United States – didn't set out to abolish slavery for altruistic reasons, because he believed that all men are created equal and should be free. No, he wanted to abolish slavery to rid the United States...

Ok so A week ago my friend and I went on date to see Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, and for a week now ive been trying to sort out my feelings of this film and I must say I absolutely enjoyed it.

Our 16th president goes to war in 1861, not to preserve the Union or abolish slavery, but to conquer an army of vampires, one of whom murdered his mother; only a last-minute shipment of silver bullets to Gettysburg saves the war.

Some wonderful movies have been made in Louisiana, especially among the smaller, independent productions, but the list of bad high-profile films produced here keeps growing. Following the recent Battleship, last year’s Battle Los Angeles, 2009’s Cirque...

Nearly 150 years after his assassination, Abraham Lincoln is getting his due from Hollywood. 2012 sees the release of three movies featuring the 16th President front-and-center. The biggest of these is Steven Spielberg's long-awaited bio-pic...

When you decide to make a 3D movie about Abraham Lincoln as Buffy The Vampire Slayer and one of the first scenes in your film involves a "comin' at ya" moment of a slave driver's whip, the lash of which ultimately lands and draws blood on a child...

The potential appeal of this Gothic horror films is pretty broad. The CGI, stunts, runaway train pacing, imaginative special effects, combined with close attention to historical detail – the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum gave its blessing and...

As a child, Lincoln kept this secret journal, revealing that he and his father clashed with villainous slaver Jack Barts (Marton Csokas), whose bite killed Lincoln’s mother, Nancy. Years later, Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) learned the art of vampire...

And you thought Honest Abe spent most of his time wrestling the Confederacy and trying to free the slaves. Ha! The bestseller list teaches a different history. It was the spawn of Twilight our 16th President was after. Seth Grahame-Smith...

This much-anticipated creative melding of Bekmambetov and Burton has to go down as the big disappointment of the year so far. In their determination to remain historically accurate, the pair have forgotten to have fun with what is essentially a lurid...

The grave tone makes it stiff and leaden, the digi-saturated look is a turn-off. Damnable and disordered.

IF EVER the producers of the James Bond franchise want to cast Liam Neeson as a bad guy and then also need someone to play his son, look-alike and sound-alike actor Benjamin Walker will be the man.

A riotous combination of rah-rah American patriotism and overwrought special effects nonsense, this cheeky bit of fantasy history is rather good fun. Yes, it's also completely ridiculous, but the visual flair and fast pace keep us happily entertained.

With a title like this, don't expect a PBS documentary. Once that's established, Timur Bekmambetov's visually seductive (it's shot by Caleb Deschanel) adaptation of the goofy bestseller can be a lot of fun. Certainly it beats similar mash-ups like the...

The international film database website IMDb lists the ‘cast’ of this film as John Brockington, Phil Fawke, Les Castree and Graham Lee.

Based on the American president’s secret journals, as imagined by scriptwriter Seth Grahame-Smith (adapting his own novel), this cod-historical horror movie from ‘Nightwatch’ director Timur Bekmambetov is long on speculation, emancipation...

There are countless of vampire films these days, and the numbers churning out don't seem to be letting up, maximizing releases on the 3D format to rake in extra revenue at the box office. Amongst the noisy blockbusters, in Singapore at least, comes...

Rarely has a film’s title promised so much, but delivered so little. Sure, sixteenth President of the United States Abraham Lincoln does indeed hunt vampires in this mega-bucks adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s clever-clever novel, but the giddy fun...

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ดัดแปลงจากนวนิยายชื่อเดียวกันของ Seth Grahame-Smith ที่หยิบเอาอัตชีวประวัติของประธานาธิบดีลินคอล์นมาเล่าใหม่และใส่ความแฟนตาซีลงไป เหตุเพราะความสำเร็จจากนิยายก่อนหน้า Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ที่เอานิยายดังมาดัดแปลง

หนังสร้างมาจากนิยายขายดีของ Seth Grahame-Smith ที่นำเรื่องราวชีวิตของประธานาธิบดีคนที่ 16 แห่งสหรัฐอเมริกานาม Abraham Lincoln มาผสมเข้ากับเรื่องราวของแวมไพร์ที่ว่าด้วยการที่ Lincoln นอกจากจะมีด้านการเป็นผู้นำที่น่ายกย่องแล้ว...