Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is a 2012 BritishAmerican dark fantasy action horror film directed by Timur Bekmambetov, based on the 2010 mashup novel of the same name. The novels author, Seth GrahameSmith, wrote the screenplay with Simon Kinberg. Benjamin Walker stars as the title character with supporting roles by Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell, and Marton Csokas. The reallife figure Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States 18611865, is portrayed in the novel and the film as having a secret identity as a vampire hunter.

In 1818, Abraham Lincoln Benjamin Walker lives in Indiana with his parents, Nancy Robin McLeavy and Thomas Joseph Mawle, who works at a plantation owned by Jack Barts Marton Csokas. There, Lincoln intervenes when he sees his friend, a young African American boy, William Johnson Anthony Mackie being beaten by a slaver. Because of his sons actions, Thomas is fired. That night, Lincoln sees Barts break into his house and attack his mother. Nancy falls ill the following day, and dies shortly afterwards. Thomas tells Lincoln that Barts poisoned her, but asks that he promise not try to avenge her death.Nine years later, after his fathers death, a vengeful Lincoln breaks his promise, and attacks Barts at the docks, but Barts, who is actually a vampire, overpowers him quickly. However, before Barts can kill him, Lincoln is rescued by Henry Sturges Dominic Cooper. He wakes up in Henrys home, and Sturges explains that vampires have existed in the New World for centuries, and offers to teach Lincoln to be a vampire hunter. Lincoln accepts and, after a decade of training, travels to Springfield, Illinois, one of many vampireinfested cities across the United States, armed with a modified silverbladed axe. Sturges explains that the vampires in America all descend from Adam Rufus Sewell, an ancient vampire who now owns a plantation in New Orleans with his sister, Vadoma Erin Wasson. Sturges also tells Lincoln of the vampires sole weakness, silver, and presents him with a silver pocket watch as a gift and a reminder of his mission. ........

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