Strangely Entertaining

Rating: 9/10 (16 January 2013)

I'm still not sure why I like this movie. I consider myself an intellectual person who genuinely enjoys history, yet somehow I hugely enjoyed this film about Abraham Lincoln killing vampires with an ax. Somehow, through either mistake or brilliant design, the makers of this film made this movie serious. It was not a goofy comedy with terrible CGI and terrible acting. Don't be mistaken though, this is a cheesy movie. Seriously, it has Abraham Lincoln butchering vampires, Confederates using vampires as soldiers, and the Underground Railroad transporting silver bullets for the war effort. How can you get this mix right? Then again, how can it go wrong?
It, thankfully, did not go wrong. This clever movie interweaves real history with supernatural bad guys. And these are no sparkly Twilight vampires, these are the true hunters of the night. It left the true history buffs in my viewer party both entertained and intrigued. Hopefully, if you are good at suspending reality for a while, it will entertain you too.