Based on a true story!

Rating: 8/10 (11 October 2012)

When I first decided to watch this movie, I have to admit that I was somewhat apprehensive. Mainly due to the fact that the movie market for vampire movies is so glutted with terrible movies and TV shows right now. I was expecting a cheesy vampirey love story, toss in some cheap SFX and maybe a soundtrack by Beiber and Lady Gag or something, and poof, straight to the $1.99 bin at the gas station. But I was wrong. Dead Wrong. This movie was GREAT! Finally, Hollywood came up with an original story. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. Yeah that's a new one. The relatively unknown actors chosen played their parts did so extremely well. And the crew who put this movie did a wonderful job. The special effects were very well done. There are awesome fight scenes with some original moves and weapons. There is even a bit of a love story about Abraham and Mary Todd. SPOILERS!! The story unfolds with Abraham as a child and how him seeing the treatment of black slaves will affect him for the rest of his life. But history diverges just slightly when he witness his mother being murdered by a vampire. Now Abraham not only has motivation to free the slaves and kick the butt of the confederacy, because they are vampires. Did I mention this is based on a true story. The movie moves along with Abe learning to kick vampire butt from Henry Sturgess. Possibly based on real life historical figure Henry Clay. Henry not only is a vampire, but is involved with freeing the slaves. He soon meets up with Joshua Speed, a real life friend of Lincoln's and soon the three of them are kicking vampire ass down to the Mason/Dixon line. The plot moves along with Lincoln eventually killing the vampire that killed his mom and finding out there thousands more like him coming north. So Abraham decides instead of using weapons he now uses words and becomes President of the US. Time passes and we see Lincoln aged and embroiled in the Civil war. He realizes that they will lose the war unless something drastic happens so they make silver bullets and cannonballs for the final battle of Gettysburg. But the vampires get wind of this plan and try to stop the train. The climactic battle between Abe and the head vampire is really quite a scene. Set on a moving locomotive over burning railroad trestles, it a pretty cool scene. All in all this movie was allot of fun. Lots of Action, cool SFX, a decent and ORIGINAL story makes this a really fun movie.