Lincoln the Vampire Hunter

[Dave Taylor]

Well I both read the book and saw the movie. I actually enjoyed the book. I felt the novel did a decent job of telling Lincoln's life story while detailing his night job of killing vampires. It was humorous and a quick, fun read in my opinion.

The movie, on the other hand, was pretty bad in my eyes. While the actor playing Abe did a good job, I hated the vampires. Dressed in period garb and whatnot, I sort of expected them to be "classy" vampires. When they were impersonating humans, they were. But the second they went into vampire mode, they turned into weird beasts:



To me, vampires should have two fangs and that's all. Give them superhuman strength if you want, but make them look like vampires.

The worst part of the movie to me is how they strayed from the book. Like I said the book was silly but had some basis in factual events. The movie throws that premise completely out the window. Suddenly Abe and his African American best friend are on top of a train racing towards Gettysburg fighting off vampires while the bridge the train is on is on fire. Goodbye any aspect of reality. The biggest crime had to be the omission of Lincoln's assassination by the hands of the vampire John Wilkes Booth. It was in the book, but the movie ends with the Lincoln's on their way to the theater instead. What a let down.