I liked "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" better. I liked how that one was character-centered around Lincoln, while having more action, and a history backdrop that I was more familiar with where vampire fiction was woven into. Also with vampires, more can be done with them. In ALVH, there were two stand-out vampires that had developed characters.
With "Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies", there seemed to be less action, and the plot with the guys courting the ladies seemed to muddle the urgency of dealing with the zombies. Also, these zombies were more like vampires, hiding among the living while looking normal and speaking intelligently until feeding time - like vampires. While I said that vampires are generally more entertaining, if I'm watching a zombie movie, I want the zombies to be like zombies - the kind on "The Walking Dead". It would have been much more interesting to see members of the posh 18th century class in PP&Z subjected to a "Walking Dead" scenario in a PP&Z context. There would be a freak virus killing humans and then turning them into zombies. At first it would be many lower class commoners. Then after writing it off as a commoner problem, many members of the upper class would have become zombies too, both from being attacked by the commoners, and from catching the virus. But PP&Z was not exactly that. It wasn't bad, but it could have been better.
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