“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
Abraham Lincoln
Yes. That is right. Abraham Lincoln. The $5 kid. The Rail Spliter. The Great Emancipator. The man who preserved the Union. Mr 13th Amendment. The bloke next to Teddy Roosevelt on Mount Rushmore. However, in 2012 Honest is going to be picking up a new mantle, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.”
The film is based on a fantasy-fueled horror novel of the same name written by author Seth Grahame-Smith. Along the lines of other such history-come-horror novels as “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” Grahame-Smith mixes fiction with fact to re-engineers Lincoln as a politician who, in his spare time, gets all John Wilkes Booth on the vampires of America. However, it is not simply the abolishing of slavery and vampires that drives the President but also the death of his mother at the hands of a vampire.
Lincoln is played by relative unknown Ben Walker in the movie, but the real draw will be the fact that it is produced by Tim Burton and does not include Johnny Depp or Helen Bonham-Carter for once. Also the man who directed Wanted and Night Watch – Timur Bekmambetov – is hoping to bring more action packed axe-wielding than Mike Myers’ So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993).
Four score and seven years ago 20th Century Fox released this trailer to commemorate the 203rd anniversary of the 16th President of the United States. Happy birthday Abe:
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Now you know what it really takes to be a truly great vampire slayer – what’s stopping you? “They don’t exist” – I hear you cry. How do you know until you start staking people left right and centre? The only way to really find out is to start replacing stranger’s Parmesan cheese with garlic, carry a shaving mirror wherever you go to check for reflections and see if people still come in your house without being invited…although if you start doing all of the above – chances are people won’t be queuing up to come round anyway.
The bottom line is whether you are a peppy cheerleader, a comic book clerk or the President of The United States – you may be humanity’s last hope against the undead.
But do you have what it (s)takes?
