Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is apparently not a documentary, as the name might have suggested. However, it is one of the season’s best new comedies. Writer Seth Grahame-Smith used largely inaccurate historical data to produce a massively ridiculous scenario in which, as the name implies, the nation’s 16th president hunts vampires. No viewer can help but laugh at the sheer hilarity of the characters ironically trying to play a serious role during the massively moronic film. Director Timur Bekmambetov kicks the hilarity up a notch with his constant use of slow motion effects to drag out a film that will be raking in Oscars soon enough. History fans and movie lovers alike should not pass up this comedic masterpiece. Wait. It wasn’t supposed to be funny?
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