10 Horror Movies That Take Themselves Way Too Seriously
2. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Searching for a period horror piece that takes taking itself too seriously to stratospheric new levels? Look no further than 2012's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
The Benjamin Walker-led offering reimagines the role of Honest Abe in a manner never seen before. The movie depicts the 16th President of the United States as a life-long vampire hunter, embellishing the timeline of the Civil War by including a cohort of vampiric slave owners as the conflict's chief antagonists.
Consequentially, Timur Bekmambetov's picture collapses in on itself by failing to imbue its far-fetched subject matter with any semblance of self-awareness.
The monotonous storyline is as bleak as the Civil War itself, treating Lincoln's crusade against the undead as a meaningful dramatic narrative.