Lincoln be stinkin'...

Rating: 1/10 (4 December 2012)

The notion of Civil War-era vampires is nothing new (see the xlibris book THE NIGHT RIDERS for my own personal take on just such a scenario)- but it HAS been handled better (see the xlibris book THE NIGHT RIDERS...). From the looks of things, a great deal of money was spent on this one. Not much of a return on such a big investment, if you ask me. While it might've made a decent manga, it's not much of an anime (which it is, because most of the action is cgi). In THE NIGHT RIDERS, we learn that a slave ship from Africa has unleashed an ancient evil on these shores. The story works as metaphor, something ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER doesn't even ATTEMPT; it's just one more expensive cgi cartoon hardly worth the time it takes to sit through.