In the crowded landscape of genre-bending cinema, few films have dared to be as audaciously ridiculous—and ridiculously entertaining—as Timur Bekmambetov’s 2012 action-horror masterpiece, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter . Based on Seth Grahame-Smith’s best-selling novel, the film reimagines the 16th President of the United States as a axe-wielding, vampire-slaying action hero.