Four Score and Seven Vampire Ass-Kickings Ago
The first trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter? Why, don’t mind if I do.
I’m not the biggest fan of Timur Bemabetaphakonkox — he’s stylish, but I felt both Night Watch and Wanted lacked something — and I understand FilmDrunk’s consternation at the film’s apparent lack of humor, but I’m digging this. I like that they’re playing it 100% straight, at least for this trailer. Maybe it’ll be tiresome during the movie proper, but right now watching a grim-faced Lincoln flinging his ax around like a kung fu master is awesome to me. Look, any action scene featuring someone wearing Lincoln’s top hat equals pure entertainment as far as I’m concerned.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.