In 2012, Hollywood’s lust for vampire films was running at full throttle. That year The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, Dark Shadows, Hotel Transylvania, Dracula 3D, Vamps, and Underworld: Awakening all flooded multiplexes. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which hurtled out of the dark like one of the film’s many axes, seemed like a tongue-in-cheek novelty that was too late to the party.
