Benjamin Walker

Dominic Cooper

Anthony Mackie

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Rufus Sewell

John Rothman

Marton Csokas

Alex Lombard

Jimmi Simpson

Teri Wyble

Cameron M. Brown

Frank Brennan

John Neisler

Meade Patton

Alan Tudyk

Robin McLeavy

Erin Wasson

Jaqueline Fleming

Laura Cayouette

Joseph Mawle

Curtis Harris

Bill Martin Williams

Aaron Toney

Lawrence Turner

Earl Maddox

Jake La Botz

Dane Rhodes

Jillian Batherson

Chelsea Bruland

Kristin Daniel

Johnny Otto

Lux Haney-Jardine

Caleb Deschanel

Seth Grahame-Smith

Mindy Marin

François Audouy

Beat Frutiger

Tim Burton

John J. Kelly

Jim Lemley

William Hoy

Timur Bekmambetov

Simon Kinberg

Varvara Avdyushko

Michele Wolkoff

Cheryl Carasik

Carlo Poggioli

Billy D. Lucas

Mic Rodgers

Danny Wynands

Zack Duhame

Shauna Duggins

Mike Wilson

Chris O'Connell

Brian N. Bentley

Mikael Sandgren

Tim Trella

Doc Duhame

Brooke Lyndon-Stanford

Craig Lyn

Troy Brown

Matt Baker

Scott Workman

Dave Macomber

Jay Carrado

Alec Rayme

Alex Schoenauer

David Scott Gaudin

Lee Whittaker

Jacob Kabel

Larnell Stovall

Janice Knox

Chris J. Fanguy

Dieter Busch

Jeff Galpin

Jay Caputo

Chris Bryant

Matt Berberi

Richard C. Taylor

Igor Tsay

Eric VanArsdale

Sam Malone

Ronan Hice

Matthew R. Staley

Wesley Scott

Theo Kypri

Justin Riemer

Regis Harrington

Guy Fernandez

Kyle Clements

Hunter Baxley

Roy Burger

Edrick Browne

Dana Woods

Thomas Robinson Harper

Justin Eaton

Kenny Alexander

Brandon Melendy

Eric Salas

Larry Rippenkroeger

Andy Abele

Yumiko Takeya

Fionagh Cush

Mark Cotone

Gloria Pasqua Casny

Ainslie Thomas

Henry Jackman

Freddie Hice

Bob Brown

Nelson Greaves

Chris Palermo

Jeff 'JJ' Dashnaw

Mallory Thompson

Ronn Surels

Joe Letteri

Martin Hill

Action

Fantasy

Horror

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Bazelevs Production

Tim Burton Productions

Abraham Productions

Location Gourmet

20th Century Fox

Dune Entertainment

Russia

United States of America

Per Gunnar Jonsson

I was somewhat prepared to be disappointed by this movie due to its rather bizarre title and story but to my enjoyment I wasn’t. I found it to be a quite enjoyable movie. 

The story is somewhat bizarre indeed, but then what would you expect when Tim Burton has stuck his fingers into the production? The blurb about the film is also not exactly correct. The 16th president doesn’t discover that vampires are planning to take over the United States. It’s more on the line that he enters politics and actually becomes the 16th President because of the vampires. The story also manages to, more or less, blame the slave trade on the vampires. After all, slaves would make a nice food source for plantation-owning vampires wouldn’t it? As I said, the story is indeed somewhat bizarre. 

The film as a whole is quite enjoyable though. Well, I guess you have to like vampire/action movies in order to find it enjoyable but then, why else would you want to see this movie in the first place? There’s enough action to keep the film going most of the time. If anything, maybe the training parts were a bit rushed and too short. The action is quite well done, reasonably blood-splattering, and fun to watch. 

The axe-swinging Abraham Lincoln is a cool twist instead of the usual wooden stake, cross swinging or dart throwing vampire hunters that we’re used to see. He must be bloody, as in unnaturally, strong to be able swing around that axe the way he does but what the heck, it’s a vampire movie after all, so one should perhaps not nit-pick on such things. 

There’s a scene near the end of the film where a train is about to crash down into a ravine since the bridge, that the vampires have set on fire, is about to collapse. That’s scene was a bit silly and overly unrealistic. There’s also a fairly big whoops in the make-up department where Abraham and his friend Joshua clearly has aged a lot towards the end of the movie, which you would expect, but his wife and his friend Will seems not to have aged at all. How that managed to slip through is somewhat unbelievable.

Joyously Bonkers!

It is what it is, a nutty premise made in nutty fashion, but for the undemanding horror fan there's a good time to be had here. Action choreography is of a very good standard, as is, perhaps surprisingly, the CGI. The history aspects of the story, one Abraham Lincoln's accent into justifiable legendary status, are of course a mixture of the based on fact and chaotic popcorn, but it's always interesting, exciting and bloody!

I imagine most horror fans have seen it by now, but if like me you are late to it, and like me you go in with low expectation levels, you could well find yourself having a blast and not hating yourself in the morning . All that and Rufus Sewell looks suspiciously like Adam Ant! 7/10

Gimly

My expectations were pretty low, but I somehow actually ended up liking it even less than I thought I might. The big setpieces seem to be what _Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter_ is all about, and they are **so bad**. Just abysmal.

_Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible._