One of America’s Most Beloved Presidents…Was a Vampire Hunter? Watch the Trailer!
- Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:37pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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A few summers ago “mash-up” genre novels seemed to be all the rage. First Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, then Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, and then Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. The heroic rendition portrays America’s Sixteenth President not only as the liberator of enslaved African-Americans, but also as a skilled killer of Vampires. The popular 2010 book is set to hit the big screen this summer as an epic 3D blockbuster. 20th Century Fox has released the film’s first trailer and, as expected, it looks awesome:
The novel claims to be based on the “secret diaries” of the first Republican president, and IMDb’s one sentence description of the film’s storyline reads; “Lincoln’s mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.”
I’m in.
The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Mary Todd Lincoln, Dominic Cooper as vampire killing mentor Henry Sturgess, and newcomer Benjamin Walker as honest Abe.
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Comments (125)
cobra two
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:20amCarl Kolchak was the best vampire hunter period! “The Night Stalker” ooooohhhhhh yeahhhh
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 1:15amWhat next?
Report Post »Miami
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 3:20amYou actually compare the Vampire delusion too the reality of Lincoln’s accomplishments? Wow It’s no wonder our country is going the way of Greece
Report Post »Sheepdog911
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:45amWill this movie feature Lincoln hunting Obama? He cetainly has sucked the life blood out of taxpayers (those 43% o us who do actually pay) and the rest of the economy.
Report Post »myway2112
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 7:05amI agree. What a great character that was. The Night Stalker will go down in history as one of the great shows.
Report Post »mmabri
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 8:00am@MIami – Gee, its just a work of fiction. Get over yourself. There have ben all kinds of fiction written about certain points in history. They are just enjoyable reads, and they made this one into a movie because it was such a popular story.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 8:44ammmabri
Note the investment in our society, to misdirect, dilute and misinform. Be it media, entertainment or education, It’s a multi pronged attack on the masses. To dismiss it is foolish.
Why do you see students who are clueless to American History, yet know the reality starts by heart. They praise murders and tyrants as heroes be it Ernesto “Che”:Guevara, Fidel Castro, Mao Tse Tung, Joseph “Boxcar Jo” Stalin. Hell it’s only a matter of time before they turn Osama Bin Laden into a freedom fighting hero. After all our specially challenged liberals love anyone who hates this nation, take Code Pink for example who have fully embraced Hamas Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Not to say the full out war on any faith, that’s not Islam
Are you familiar with the window of normality?
But sure is just a movie, keep telling yourself that.
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:06amThis movie looks like it might be entertaining. Of course it could also be utter crap but I’ll still watch it. After it’s torrented of course.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:56amWe took away “LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY.”
We took away “WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY.”
We created “President’s Day.”
We eliminated celebrating the accomplishments of our two greatest Presidents, and now we just ignore “Presidents Day.“ Just ask a college student what ”President’s Day” is.
Now, we turn Abraham Lincoln into a fictional character in a vampire movie.
NO RESPECT for a GREAT PRESIDENT !!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:58amAre you guy arguing over the Rules to Klingon Boggle?
Report Post »Jeffreyeast
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:43pmI second that…
Report Post »libtardian-refugee
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 3:07pmIf killing vampires is unconstitutional, then I wouldn’t doubt that Lincoln at least sympathized with vampire killers
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:16amIf you think this movie will be in the Sucks Beyond Belief category, go and see the German-made “The Red Baron”. Actually, borrow it if you can. It’s not worth paying to see.
Report Post »Jobeycool
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:16amSteven Spielberg is making a real movie about Abraham Lincoln anyways.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 8:46am“Spielberg” and “real” don’t work in the same sentence.
Report Post »DirtyDeeds
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 11:47pmI loved the book, I thought it was a really fun read.
Report Post »mmabri
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 8:02amMe too. I thought it was a great work of fiction, and did a great job of mending historical fact with fiction. The people on here gtting so upset about this need to turn it down a notch.
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 11:39pmLooks like the dumbest movie ever made.
Report Post »ArgumentumAdAbsurdum
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 1:25amYou clearly havent seen “Expelled”
Report Post »AnAppealToGod
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 1:41amExpelled? Seriously? You are comparing that movie to this Vampire slaying?
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »LemuresXL
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:08amLooks like you have bad tastes in movies =P That movie looks dope.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 1:05pm10,000 BC was dumber than a box of stone age rocks.
Report Post »Twilight Struggler
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 11:36pmAny mention of Rev. John Brown in the book? He did try to start the war.
Report Post »SIXFRIGATES
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 11:34pmNow that Hollywood has destroyed God, they have obviously moved on to destroying the great mythical creatures in the world, starting with Twilight, now this.. Shame. Shame on these people for putting out such crap that is not compelling whatsoever except to the mindless drones of the masses.
Report Post »9111315
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 6:16amStep one: Twilight makes Vampires the good guys.
Report Post »Step two: Lincoln kills Vampires.
Step three: Lincoln is evil.
Twobyfour
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 1:12pm…and a bigot with no understanding for alternate nutritional lifestyles, and possibly a racist. Fer sure a racist.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 1:35pmUlysses Grant was a werewolf and Misus Lincoln was a weresheep, so he left them alone. Just the vampires.
He usually befriended them, by smooth-talking and smooth-writing (point in case Karl Marx who was his pen pal and bona ossa/bona sangua vampire) and then used a barbaric method of termination–a sharpened wooden stick with splinters.
Did you know that the bullet that kill him was made from silver? Just sayin’….
Report Post »txn4justice
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:46pmI heard he parted red, white and blue see.
Report Post »UnreconstructedLibertarian
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:44pmRush_is_Right
Have you ever read any of Karl Marx’s own articles regarding the war? You really should. Marx was a huge fan of Lincoln. The two were pen pals.
http://www.amazon.com/Unfinished-Revolution-Karl-Abraham-Lincoln/dp/1844677222/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1329190885&sr=8-2
Report Post »Eleutheria
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:12amLincoln was a tyrant. Since the international slave trade had been outlawed, the freedom of existing slaves could have been bought at a much lower cost than the blood and money expended during the civil war.
Report Post »thetreyman
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:35am@Eleutheria
i am guessing that you are a ron paul supporter. am i correct?
Report Post »SFsuper49er
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 7:20amThe Civil War was Bush’s fault…
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 1:39pmCausality works in mysterious ways.
Report Post »skimdit
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:32pmAbraham Lincoln,Vampire!
Report Post »skimdit
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:31pmAbraham Lincoln ,Vampire !
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:29pmZombies, werewolves, and vampires, oh my!
Report Post »Chris2
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:27pmAaaahhhhhh yyyyyeeeeeaaaaahhhhh!
Report Post »Aerocog
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:22pmZombies, Vampire, end of the world, jeez does anyone else fill that genre has been worn a little thin by now?
Report Post »texasbeta
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 11:12pmReally? Ever read this website before? Half of the people on here think Jesus is coming back next month. Get real. Don’t you think THAT has been weighed thin, say, over 1800 years thin?
Report Post »LibertarianForLife
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:51amTexas, your comment just made my life. This book has about the same amount of credibility as the bible.
Report Post »CleanUpAisle2013
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:22pmIronic, ain’t it? A President back then doing what‘s right to save US citizens from blood suckers and then in 2008 US citizens think they are doing what’s right and elect one.
Report Post »metalurgy
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:14amAgreed! Pelosi/Reid Supermajority spent us into our current debt situation…not to mention then Senator Obama signed off on all that spending and blames Bush for signing what the DFL put on his desk.
Good Call!
Report Post »Eleutheria
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:17amSince the international slave trade had already been outlawed, we could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of dollars if we had simply purchased the freedom of all domestic slaves. Lincoln started a needless war and we are still paying for it in more ways than one. Lincoln the tyrant has been deified.
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 8:39amobuma does remind me of lincoln. declairing War on americans
Report Post »lincoln did not believe in state rights neither does obuma
however lincoln has more blood on his hands, obuma needs 4 more years
ShyMan
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:21pmYou know…if Ubama is really a vampire that would make him…
BLACKULA…no wait…
BARACKULA
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:39pmGood ONE…LOL
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:19pmNothing beats “Ren & Stimpy” cutting the head of the Lincoln Memorial, drawing a face on a dumpster, placing it atop, then lighting it on fire. Better than that trailer.
I, for one, just hope the film doesn’t bastardize history and paint Lincoln falsely.
Report Post »rush_is_right
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:16pmyou libertarians sure are for slavery aren’t ya now?
fascist racist wacko.
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 8:59amactually NO! we are for Liberty, individual rights, the rights of the local government.
Report Post »RebelYell1862
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:02pmlincoln was trash. If I ever get to springfield, I’ll take a piss on his tomb.
13th Generation American
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:12pmGo put on your Swastika underoos and have Adolph tuck you in.
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 11:29pmTexas gettin it’s kink on
Report Post »momsense
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 2:43amThere are a lot of people who feel the same about your good ole boy Rob Lee.e took an education from this ocuntry and then turend his back on it to commit treason. Ingrate is the least that he can be called.
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 8:44amnonsense, maybe you should study Lee’s life. not a traitor but a patriot. After the war he spent his life for the betterment of his countryman.
Report Post »s0ck_monkey
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:58pmI read this book a year or so ago, and it was one of the best books I have ever read. The author takes historical facts and weaves in a vampire story. Cheesy? Not at all. Especially when you find out that slavery was started by vampires that wanted to eventually make ALL humans slaves…they just start started with blacks.
Trust me, read the book. You won’t regret it!
Report Post »rowanrobert
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:55pmAbe did not go to war to free the slaves. He went to war to save the union. The international banks sought to divide and conquer the united states.
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:02pmSo did the British, they still wanted this country. My family worked with the Russian Embassy in Havana Cuba to secure the Russian Navy’s support to keep the British from getting involved. The British banks backed the South primarily because of the cotton textile industry. Lincoln went to Europe to secure financing but the banks wanted 20 percent and Lincoln said no. We had no gold standard so Lincoln decided ordered the Treasury print Greenbacks. It worked, the Greenbacks were secured by the faith of the American people not by Gold.
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:16pmOh, what a huge load of four score BUNK. He allowed, regretfully, states to enter the union as slave-owning states in order to form the union and save it from falling apart before it formed. He went to war to free the slaves, partly because that was the last option left with, and the second half because the South attacked first, taking over a base, millitary turning on the North, etc.
Luckily we don’t have to rely on liberalized history to know the TRUTH, we have Abraham Lincoln’s own speeches to read on the subject. Which is exactly what I did.
Not only were there no “national” banks then, but banks figured not at all in this. More Occupy propaganda.
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 11:34pmThe British and French Rothschild were very much involved supplying the Confederate Army, Their interest was for this country to tear it’s self apart so they could in and reclaim their lands. They wanted a bloody war on both sides, they didn’t care, they were in it for the money
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 11:48pmWhat ever they wanted was irrelevent, the war was not fought for them or on their behalf or for their reasons. Still got it wrong.
Report Post »JimCDew
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 7:03amAbe didn’t go to war. Does Fort Sumpter ring a bell? It was the south that went to war. The North just took the lead to win it.
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:11pmA war takes TWO to tango. Lincoln didn’t just ask the millitary to go out and play.
Report Post »Readyforanything
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:52pmSweet! So long as he kills the cast of Twilight at the end, sounds like a great movie. :-P
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:51pmHe treats Vampires like he treated the traitorous Confederates, off with your heads!
Report Post »All American American
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:58pmThe Confederacy was about as “traitorous” to the United States of America as the Founders were to Great Britain. I seriously hope you don’t consider yourself a conservative or a Constitutionalist.
Report Post »drago
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:02pm@All American American
Report Post »13th generation asshat is none other than encinom, our resident huffpo troll…….
We are Americans
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:05pm@All American Americans. Of course they
Report Post »were traitors. They seceded from the Union
and fired the first shots of the war at Fort
Sumpter. The constitution does not allow
states to secede let alone attack the federal
army. Seriously, get a clue. Dont make me
send Sherman down there to teach you
another lesson.
RebelYell1862
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:13pmIf the Confederates were traitors, then so was George Washington. I‘ll bet you didn’t even have family in the fight so shut your trashy mputh.
Report Post »Rob Adkerson
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:14pmAll American American probably has a “South will rise again” bumper sticker.
Report Post »We are Americans
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:35pm@rebelyell. It‘s a shame you can’t let
Report Post »it go. Your side lost. You were on the wrong
side. Let it go. It’s been over for 145 years.
The confederacy is as dead now as it
was in 1865 when y’all were starving and having
your homes burnt down. Slavery. Bad.
Seceding. Bad idea. Trying to argue that
it was anything but treason. Very bad
All American American
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:07am@We, can you tell me exactly WHERE in the Constitution it forbids secession? Secession was a natural right of States understood by Americans until Lincoln trashed the Constitution laying the groundwork for the likes of TR, Wilson, FDR, Carter, and Obama. There’s a reason Obama loves Lincoln so much. Maybe you should, I dunno, question Lincoln with boldness? Do you also consider our Founders traitors to the Crown? Holy cow are you aware our country was FOUNDED by fighting a war of secession basically?????
@Rob, no I sure don’t, but I do have my Oathkeepers stickers on my front and back windshields. Unlike Lincoln did I take my oath to the Constitution seriously.
Report Post »We are Americans
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 3:20am@all. Learn to read. I don’t post lies. There
Report Post »gave been supreme court decisions stating
it is unconstitutional for states to secede.
I would post the link but research yourself.
The british did think our founders were traitors.
They were to England. They woulda been hung if
they had lost. So go educate urself and I stop trying
to act like you have a clue what ur talking about
rwinger261
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 6:41amIt’s sad to see how many “conservatives” fall for the Yankee propaganda that the South somehow was a threat to liberty, and that Lincoln somehow “saved” the country from destruction. He was the source of the destruction that we see now. The rotten race relations where a result of the war he so zealously pursued, as well as the Federal tyranny we see today. He was the greatest tyrant this country ever saw, (with perhaps the exception of Obama, whose atrocities we have yet to see). Lincoln trampled on the Constitution. The only good thing to say about Lincoln was that had he survived, he may not have permitted the radicals to continue to rape the South after the war.
Report Post »Rob Adkerson
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 7:15am@All
That’s fine and a reasonable point to argue, but pretending the south weren’t traitors, and that we somehow did the wrong thing by attacking the south( remember, south seceded, south shot first ) and returning them(us for me) to the union is anti-American.
I have no problem with oathkeepers, but I’m always curious how you solve the dilemma that inevitably arises: “protect against all threats foreign and domestic” How do you guys protect against domestic threats?
Report Post »All American American
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 7:48am@We, you make the claim secession is unconstitutional but then tell me to “research” it? Bwahahahahaha! Sorry We, you need to present facts. Maybe you need to google the Hartford Convention of 1815 and see just how secession was viewed back in the early days of our country…in the North.
@Rob, secession is a perfect and peaceful way to deal with a government which is out of control. It truly saddens me that so many on here who consider themselves “conservative” or “constitutionalists” at the same time deify Lincoln. Again, you truly need to question Lincoln with boldness and maybe you’ll have an awakening. I did because I couldn‘t figure out why Obummer was so keen on mimicking Lincoln’s path to his inauguration. The CSA were most definitely NOT traitors. As to your claim about the first shot, maybe you can tell me why Lincoln ignored delegation after delegation from the CSA to work out a peaceful co-existence, and refused to heed the warnings not to resupply Ft Sumpter? Why didn’t Lincoln just recall the troops? Lincoln goaded the South into firing the first shot in much the same way FDR is accused of goading Japan to (and much like you’re trying to goad me into saying something about current domestic enemies).
Report Post »UnreconstructedLibertarian
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:17pmRob,
The oath isn’t to the country, its to uphold the Constitution against enemies “foreign and domestic”.
As is plainly evident in our own time, the government can be its own enemy by warring against the Constitution. So, I ask you: If the United States declared itself a communist republic – what would you do? Would you side with the “country” or the Constitution?
The Union was the traitorous faction against the Constitution, and the entire country has been racking up a terrible price since. The bill is now coming due. Karl Marx rejoiced till his dying day that the Union won, because it made all of his socialistic predictions possible.
Karl Marx to Abe, 1865: “The workingmen of Europe … consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world.”
Abe’s actions actually did lead to the “reconstruction of a social world”, as the european countries immediately went into their own civil wars of “Centralized Government” consolidation. Countries that today are the model of socialist failings, as we soon will follow.
Its a bitter pill to swallow, but our real history is being revealed by our present.
Report Post »MrObvious
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:47pmDidn’t he also rock out the Wild Stallions (Bill & Ted)?
Report Post »ArgumentumAdAbsurdum
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:49pmahem, its Wyld Stallyns
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:40pmStar Trek had him fighting Aliens.
Report Post »We are Americans
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:47pmLol. Did they really? I watched the trailer, the
Report Post »worlds definitely ending. Concept is brutally ridiculous.
TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:59pmYeah! I remember that episode well. TREKKIES RULE! {:
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:10pmThat was good! Space Seed was on last Sat.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:18pmhttp://youtu.be/7JWe3hCes
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 11:52pmYeah, that was a real good episode. Funny, I was just thinking of Star Trek this evening…watching the Westminster dog show-saw some little toy dog breed…thought it looked just like a Tribble!
Report Post »Clawdewd
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:54am“The Savage Curtain”.
It also included “Jenjes” Kahn, as John Kerry would say!
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