bizarre concept but what the heck....

Rating: 2/10 (31 December 2012)

The attraction of Vampire (and zombie) movies to the movie maker is that they legitimise as much wanton bloodletting and gore as can be served up inside of 120 minutes. 'Body count' movies became politically unacceptable after 9.11 and this became the favoured Hollywood solution. On that score this movie will not disappoint. The extreme violence and CGI blood spatter will not disappoint those with the appetite for gore. A cast of complete unknowns must have been necessitated by the refusal of any known actor, however minor, to participate in such a mess of blood and guts and the greatest disservice imaginable to one of America's greatest presidents. They are all well cast and acquit themselves with whatever dignity is available to such bottom feeders. The ultimate irony would be if every other (historically accurate) record of Abraham Lincoln got lost in the mists of time except this movie and 2,000 years from now our ancestors believed that the American Civil War eradicated not just legalised slavery but also vampires. That would be funny and make it altogether worthwhile.