Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them.
After his mother is killed as a child, a young Lincoln grows up with a lust for revenge and hunts down her killer. When he gathers the resolve to kill, he discovers that her killer is a vampire and can't be killed by traditional means. The next day, A hunter named Henry takes him under his wing and shows him how to kill these beasts and with time, Abraham comes to possess great abilities. His thirst however remains unquenched, as he still hasn't killed the one he wants. As his kill count increases, he looks to politics as a cover for his work. He soon discovers he has a knack for it and he eventually takes on the platform of ending slavery. This draws the attention of senior vampires, who in addition to having their friends killed, have also been using slave labor to slowly take over the South.
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is basically a biography of Lincoln, but with vampires. All of the important/noteworthy events of his life are included, but the vampire storyline makes things a bit more interesting. What derails the film is it's insistence on being a biography, rather than an action farce starring one of our beloved presidents. Don't misunderstand, I like what they did, but the second half of the film dragged as he fought for a way to unite the nation and quell the vampire rebellion. Everything just seemed like a reach is all.
Lately, adding supernatural creatures to classic tales
has been good business and A.L.:V.S. is no different. There is history,
vampires, and Lincoln kicking all sorts of ass with an axe.
It is easy to tell (since vampires were added), that a lot of research went into this film in order to place them in proper context. I'm certain they used Lincoln's actual speeches for some of their scenes and William Lincoln, who died of typhoid fever while young, has been written as killed off by vampires in this film.
Out of Ten? 7
The film itself and its novel are all clever revisionist history, and I
must admit that it's pretty well done. If nothing else, this film is
visually satisfying.
Violence? Yes
Explosions? Yes
Nudity? No
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