Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)

I must preface this review with the statement that I have read and enjoyed the book that Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter  was based on.  My Review Here, Steve's review here.

Disappointed.  That is how I feel; disappointed.  I mean.  I told everyone how great the book was and how factual it was.  I think I have said that the book is 90% biography and 10% vampires.  I stick by that for the book. A lot of poeple I said this to, will not read the book, but they will watch the movie.  What will they think of me after that. 

The acting was good.  I saw it mentioned that the guy playine Lincoln looked a lot like Liam Neeson, my wife mentioned it as well.  Alan Tudyk was Stephen Douglas which was a pleasant surprise. 

The plot was similar to that of the book except that it wasn't any good.  They turned this into an action movie.  Actually it was more of a superhero movie with Lincoln having super human strength and agility.  According to the movie, Lincoln only had one child who was murdered by vampires.  In reality, Lincoln had 4 sons, two of which died before Lincoln himself (vampires?).  The other two sons outlived Lincoln, but only one made it to adulthood (vampires?).  The book gets this right. 

The beauty of the book is that it did not try and shoe horn vampires into the story.  It took tragic events in Lincolns life and attributed them to vampires.  It takes those empty periods when Lincoln wasn't making history and attributed those times to vampires.  The movie fails in this respect.  Maybe there wasn't enough time to tell the Lincoln story and the vampire story, but only telling half makes the movie lose its charm. 

Overall- It is an action movie.  It is not as good as the book.  I would say 10 and up due to action violence. 

Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl



Vampire Girl Vs Frankenstein Girl is a movie.  It has a vampire like creature in it and it has Frankenstein type girl in it.  These characters are attractive Japanese girls, oh, and there is lots of blood spray. 



I forgot the characters names as they aren't really important.  All you need to know is that the vampire girl is the new girl in school and she has her eye on the same guy as the future Frankenstein girl.  She tricks said guy into eating a blood laced chocolate (well the blood was a trick, but he takes the chocolate pretty willingly).  This makes him half vampire until he drinks her blood one more time.  Franky will do anything to stop this relationship and gets thrown off the roof for her trouble.  Good thing her father and the HOT school nurse are psycho mad scientists that have been using students for their testing.  Now that she is augmented with the best body parts, she is out to get her man back. 

She is a messy eater.

This movie doesn't even try to take itself seriously and you shouldn't either.  It exists for the sole purpose of having blood spray, gore, and hot girls covered in blood.  In my book, that is an okay reason for a film to exist, but not a great one.  I mean I watched the whole thing, but it was lacking something, not sure what.  It wasn't nearly as gory as Machine Girl and the story wasn't nearly as good either. 





Overall, I thought that my time could have been better spent.  Some of the creatures were cool, but the movie just didn't bring anything to the table for me.  The social messages with the cutting girls and the gangaru girls isn't really socially relevant to me and the portrayals just felt over the top and ridiculous to me.  I am glad that the film introduced me to Eri Otoguro (Frankenstein Girl) as she is very attractive. 

Frankenstein Girl sans Makeup.  Meow!