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Synopsis: At the age of 9, Abraham Lincoln witnesses his mother being killed by a vampire, Jack Barts. Some 10 years later, he unsuccessfully tries to eliminate Barts but in the process makes the acquaintance of Henry Sturgess who teaches him how to fight and what is required to kill a vampire. The quid pro quo is that Abe will kill only those vampires that Henry directs him to. Abe relocates to Springfield where he gets a job as a store clerk while he studies the law and kills vampires by night. He also meets and eventually marries the pretty Mary Todd. Many years later as President of the United States, he comes to realize that vampires are fighting with the Confederate forces. As a result he mounts his own campaign to defeat them.
Director(s): Timur Bekmambetov
Production: 20th Century Fox
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
42
Rotten Tomatoes:
35%
R
Year:
2012
105 min
$37,300,000
Website
2,134 Views


but all I cared about was killing

the monster that took my mother.

I am in.

Scottish Highland pistol.

And if one barrel isn't enough,

seven should do you.

The blunderbuss.

And if you lose your ball,

you can always stuff your pocket

watch down the end of it.

So, Abe,

which one takes your fancy?

Actually, I haven't had the best

of luck with shooting irons.

But,

I was a rail splitter.

I would like you to chop this

tree down with a single swing.

That tree?

It's got to be more than a foot across.

That's impossible.

But it isn't a tree.

It's what you hate most in the world.

So, tell me, Mr. Lincoln,

what do you hate?

I hate Jack Barts.

Then strike him down.

Well, clearly you don't

hate him that much.

Tell me what you hate.

I hate that my mother was taken away.

Inadequate.

I hate that we were afraid.

And?

That my mother and father,

everyone that we knew,

lived in fear.

Pathetic.

I hate that I was too small.

- Too weak.

- Yes.

And that you failed... Yes.

...to protect her. Yes.

And that you let her die.

Power, Lincoln,

real power,

comes not from hate, but from truth.

Before you protect others from darkness,

you must first be able

to protect yourself.

Your enemies have the power to

render themselves invisible.

You must have the ability

to fight blind.

To see, without seeing.

Again.

In the weeks that followed,

Henry endeavored to impart a

lifetime of vampire-hunting secrets.

Their ability to adapt to sunlight.

Their power to render

themselves invisible.

But most of all, he taught

me how to destroy them.

When Judas betrayed Jesus,

his reward was 30 pieces of silver.

At that moment, those pieces

became a symbol of betraying God.

Of evil.

And silver became a curse

upon the cursed.

You will never see a vampire

with silver on his person.

Nor see them reflected in mirrors.

The one thing God placed

beyond the reach of a vampire.

The one thing he can never possess.

Barts.

And the only thing

that renders him powerless.

Henry, Jack Barts.

I give you the targets.

That was our deal.

This is not only about Jack Barts.

Vadoma, a ruthless enforcer.

And her brother.

I have seen him before.

I saw him with Jack Barts.

They call him Adam.

He, from whom all others are made.

Vampires have been in the

New World for centuries.

Slaughtering native tribes

and early settlers.

But when the Europeans

arrived with their slaves,

the dead saw a sinister opportunity.

They built an empire in the South.

But, in recent years,

they pressed north,

leaving death in their wake.

It falls to us, Abraham,

the hunters, to keep the balance.

To ensure that this

remains a nation of men,

and not monsters.

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Seth Grahame-Smith

Seth Grahame-Smith (born Seth Jared Greenberg; January 4, 1976) is an American novelist, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the author of The New York Times best-selling novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, both of which have been adapted as feature films. Grahame-Smith is also the co-creator, head writer and executive producer of The Hard Times of RJ Berger, a scripted television comedy appearing on MTV. In collaboration with David Katzenberg, his partner in Katzsmith Productions, Grahame-Smith is currently developing a number of projects for television and film. more…

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