Sure, Abe Lincoln was a superlative statesman. But what he really excelled at, apparently, was his night job: Slaying vampires.
Don't let that folksy beard and quaint stovetop hat (or history books) fool you. Our 16th president was a raging mountain of pure vampire-crushing strength and vengeance.
That's the way the story goes in the upcoming horror/history film "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," a movie title right up there with "Surf Nazis Must Die!" and "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" on the Hollywood scale of "Are they really making this?" Well yes, they are. In fact, they already have and now we even have a trailer to check it all out for ourselves.
The Tim Burton-produced flick traces Lincoln from his childhood, where his mother is killed by a vampire, through his revenge-fueled vampire hunting adventures and ultimately to the White House. And it's clear after about only 20-seconds of the trailer that this is a serious action movie with a seriously supercharged and intense protagonist. Who just happens to be Abraham Lincoln. With a wicked axe.
The idea for the movie came from author Seth Grahame-Smith, whose 2009 zombie/literature mashup "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" kicked-off a wave of new books combining monsters and classic novels, including "Little Vampire Women" and "Jane Slayre." Like highbrow B-movies, but in print. Grahame-Smith co-wrote the screenplay for the film.
Check out the awesome trailer:
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