Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter: The Great Calamity
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- bleak
- cold
Sombre, breathless, measured horror / animation, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A motion comic follow-up to a chapter from Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter novel where Abe's friend, Edgar Allan Poe, tells him the tale of historical Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory, often tied to vampire legends due to her brutality.
Our read · Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter: The Great Calamity (2012) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive horror · animation · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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