Things I Learned From Movie X: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

In the latest Things I Learned With Movie X, I consider the historical lessons to be taken away from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, a film in which Abraham Lincoln chases down and kills the undead. Even though I sort of liked the film overall, there were some parts of it that drove me a little crazy when I was thinking about them afterwards, and if nothing else, these columns act as handy ways for me to work through my conflicting feelings about crappy films.

Film Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)

A synopsis of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the latest film from Timur Bekmambetov, seems somewhat redundant. With a title that self-explanatory, what more could you possibly need to know about the set-up? It's a film in which Abraham Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) is revealed to have lived a secret double-life as both the man who freed the slaves and as the man who freed vampires from existence. The two sides of the man eventually intertwine when Abe and his friend Henry Sturgess' (Dominic Cooper) personal battle against the malevolent Adam (Rufus Sewell) becomes far grander, and alters the course of American history.