Meanwhile, Mary and the ex-slaves have transported the silver to Gettysburg through the Underground Railroad. Lincoln uses his watch to stab Adam, killing him, and the three escape the train before the burning trestle beneath it collapses. Lincoln reveals that Speed's betrayal was a ruse to lure Adam into a trap. During the fight, in which Speed is killed, Adam learns that the train holds only rocks. On the train, Adam and Vadoma, who have set fire to an upcoming trestle, attack Lincoln, Sturgess, and Johnson. Speed, believing that Lincoln is tearing the nation apart, defects and informs Adam that Lincoln will transport the silver by train. Lincoln orders the confiscation of all the silverware in the area and has it melted to produce silver weapons. William is later bitten by Vadoma and dies.Ĭonfederate President Jefferson Davis convinces Adam to deploy his vampires on the front lines. After Lincoln's election as President of the United States of America, he moves to the White House with Mary, where they have a son, William Wallace Lincoln. Sturgess warns Lincoln that the slave trade keeps vampires under control, as vampires use slaves for food, and if Lincoln interferes, the vampires will retaliate. Lincoln marries Mary and begins his political career, campaigning to abolish slavery. Speed rescues his friends, and they escape to Ohio. Adam captures Lincoln and tries to recruit him, revealing his plans to turn the United States into a nation of the undead. However, Adam learns of his activities and kidnaps Johnson to lure Lincoln into a trap at his plantation.
Sturgess has since been training vampire hunters, hoping to destroy Adam.ĭisappointed, Lincoln decides to abandon his mission. Because Sturgess' soul was impure, he became a vampire, and that prevented him from harming Adam or any other vampire (since "Only the living can kill the dead").
Lincoln confronts Sturgess, who reveals that, several years ago, he was attacked and bitten by Adam. Before dying, Barts reveals that Sturgess is also a vampire. Lincoln successfully finds and defeats Barts. While in Springfield, Lincoln hunts vampires named in letters by Sturgess. Though Sturgess warned him not to form any close relationships, Lincoln develops romantic feelings for Mary. In Springfield, Lincoln befriends shopkeeper Joshua Speed, and meets Mary Todd. Sturgess also tells Lincoln of the vampires' weakness, silver, and presents him with a silver pocket watch. During his training, Sturgess tells Lincoln that the vampires in America descend from Adam, a powerful vampire who owns a plantation in New Orleans with his sister, Vadoma. Lincoln accepts and, after a decade of training, travels to Springfield, Illinois. Sturgess explains that vampires exist, and offers to teach Lincoln to be a vampire hunter. However, before Barts can kill him, Lincoln is rescued by Henry Sturgess. He attacks Barts at the docks, but Barts, who is actually a vampire, overpowers him. Nine years later, Lincoln decides to get revenge against Barts. Thomas tells Lincoln that Barts poisoned Nancy.
She falls ill the following day, and dies shortly afterwards. That night, Lincoln sees Barts break into his house and attack Nancy. Because of his son's actions, Thomas is fired. There, Lincoln befriends a young African American boy, William Johnson, and intervenes when he sees Johnson being beaten by a slaver. In 1818, Abraham Lincoln lives in Indiana with his parents, Nancy and Thomas, who works at a plantation owned by Jack Barts. The film received mixed reviews, with critics praising the visual style, action sequences, originality, Walker's performance and Henry Jackman's musical score, but criticism was aimed at its screenplay, the overly serious and inconsistent tone, overuse of CGI, and pacing. Filming began in Louisiana in March 2011 and the film was released in Real D 3D on Jin the United Kingdom and Jin the United States. The film was produced by Tim Burton, Bekmambetov, and Jim Lemley, with Simon Kinberg as an executive producer. Benjamin Walker stars as Abraham Lincoln with supporting roles by Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell, and Marton Csokas. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a 2012 supernatural horror/ action film directed by Timur Bekmambetov, depicting a fictionalized history of the American Civil War with the eponymous 16th president of the United States reimagined as having a secret identity as a lifelong vampire hunter fighting against a caste of vampiric slave owners.
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