Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a 2012 American supernatural horror action film directed by Timur Bekmambetov and based on the novel of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith, 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. Benjamin Walker stars as Abraham Lincoln with supporting roles by Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell, and Marton Csokas.

The film was produced by Tim Burton, Bekmambetov, and Jim Lemley, with Simon Kinberg as an executive producer. Filming began in Louisiana in March 2011 and the film was released in Real D 3D on June 20, 2012 in the United Kingdom and June 22, 2012 in the United States. 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. The film also failed to meet expectations at the box office, grossing $116 million worldwide against the budget of $69-$99 million.

Plot

In 1818, Abraham Lincoln lives in Indiana with his parents, Nancy and Thomas, who works at a plantation owned by Jack Barts. There, Lincoln befriends a young African American boy, William Johnson, and intervenes when he sees Johnson being beaten by a slaver. Because of his son s actions, Thomas is fired. That night, Lincoln sees Barts break into his house and attack Nancy. She falls ill the following day, and dies shortly afterwards. Thomas tells Lincoln that Barts poisoned Nancy.

Nine years later, Lincoln decides to get revenge against Barts. He attacks Barts at the docks, but Barts, who is actually a vampire, overpowers him. However, before Barts can kill him, Lincoln is rescued by Henry Sturgess. Sturgess explains that vampires exist, and offers to teach Lincoln to be a vampire hunter. Lincoln accepts and, after a decade of training, travels to Springfield, Illinois. 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. Sturgess also tells Lincoln of the vampires weakness, silver, and presents him with a silver pocket watch.

In Springfield, Lincoln befriends shopkeeper Joshua Speed, and meets Mary Todd. Though Sturgess warned him not to form any close relationships, Lincoln develops romantic feelings for Mary. While in Springfield, Lincoln hunts vampires named in letters by Sturgess.

Lincoln successfully finds and defeats Barts. Before dying, Barts reveals that Sturgess is also a vampire. Lincoln confronts Sturgess, who reveals that, several years ago, he was attacked and bitten by Adam. 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 ). Sturgess has since been training vampire hunters, hoping to destroy Adam.

Disappointed, Lincoln decides to abandon his mission. However, Adam learns of his activities and kidnaps Johnson to lure Lincoln into a trap at his plantation. Adam captures Lincoln and tries to recruit him, revealing his plans to turn the United States into a nation of the undead. Speed rescues his friends, and they escape to Ohio.

Lincoln marries Mary Todd and begins his political career, campaigning to abolish slavery. 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. 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. William is later bitten by Vadoma and dies.

Confederate President Jefferson Davis convinces Adam to deploy his vampires on the front lines. Lincoln orders the confiscation of all the silverware in the area and has it melted to produce silver weapons. Speed, supposedly believing that Lincoln is tearing the nation apart, defects and informs Adam that Lincoln will transport the silver by train.

On the train, Adam and Vadoma, who have set fire to an upcoming trestle, attack Lincoln, Sturgess, and Johnson. During the fight, in which Speed is killed, Adam learns that the train holds only rocks. Lincoln reveals that Speed s betrayal was a ruse to lure Adam into a trap. Lincoln uses his watch to stab Adam, killing him, and the three escape the train before the burning trestle beneath it collapses. Meanwhile, Mary and the ex-slaves have transported the silver to Gettysburg through the Underground Railroad.

The now leaderless Confederate vampires stage a final, massive assault and are met head on by the Union. Armed with their silver weapons, the Union soldiers destroy the vampires and eventually win the war. Before the battle, Mary recognizes Vadoma and avenges her son by shooting Vadoma in the head with a silver necklace bearing the sword of one of William s toy soldiers.

Nearly two years later, on April 14, 1865, Sturgess tells Lincoln that the remaining vampires have fled the country. Sturgess tries to convince Lincoln to allow him to turn Lincoln into a vampire, so that he can become immortal and continue to fight vampires, but Lincoln declines.

In modern times, Sturgess approaches a man at a bar in Washington, D.C., just as he once did Abraham. Upon slapping his back, a gun falls to the floor.

Cast

• Benjamin Walker as Abraham Lincoln, a secret vampire hunter, who serves as the 16th President of the United States.Lux Haney-Jardine as Young Abraham Lincoln
• Lux Haney-Jardine as Young Abraham Lincoln
• Dominic Cooper as Henry Sturgess, Lincoln s mentor in vampire hunting, a former vampire hunter, and a vampire who lost his wife and humanity to vampires.
• Anthony Mackie as Will Johnson, Lincoln s earliest and closest friend.Curtis Harris as Young Will
• Curtis Harris as Young Will
• Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Mary Todd Lincoln, Lincoln s wife.
• Rufus Sewell as Adam, the 5,000-year-old leader of an order of vampires.
• Marton Csokas as Jack Barts, a plantation owner and the vampire who killed Lincoln s mother.
• Jimmi Simpson as Joshua Speed, Lincoln s friend and assistant.
• Joseph Mawle as Thomas Lincoln, Lincoln s father.
• Robin McLeavy as Nancy Lincoln, Lincoln s mother.
• Erin Wasson as Vadoma, Adam s sister.
• John Rothman as Jefferson Davis
• Cameron M. Brown as William Wallace Lincoln, Abraham and Mary s third son.
• Frank Brennan as Senator Jeb Nolan
• Jaqueline Fleming as Harriet Tubman
• Alan Tudyk as Stephen A. Douglas, an American politician from Illinois.

Production

The film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was first announced in March 2010 when Tim Burton and Bekmambetov paired to purchase film rights and to finance its development themselves. The book s author, Seth Grahame-Smith, was hired to write the script. Fox beat other studios in a bidding war for rights to the film the following October.

In January 2011, with Bekmambetov attached as director, Walker was cast as Abraham Lincoln. He beat Adrien Brody, Josh Lucas, James D Arcy, and Oliver Jackson-Cohen for the role. Additional actors were cast in the following February. Filming began in March 2011 in Louisiana. The film had a budget of $99.5 million and was produced in 3D.

Release

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was originally scheduled to be released in 2D and 3D on October 28, 2011, but was later pushed back to June 22, 2012. The movie premiered in New York City on June 18. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter also made an unconventional debut with a screening for troops deployed in the Middle East. The movie was screened to over 1,800 sailors aboard the Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, just before its Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) at Newport News, Virginia. Several of the film s stars attended the screening, including Anthony Mackie, Erin Wasson and Benjamin Walker, who dressed in character as Abraham Lincoln. The screening marks the first time that a major motion picture made its debut for United States servicemembers.

Reception

As of November 9, 2014, Rotten Tomatoes reports a rotten approval score of 34%, based on 190 reviews, with an average score of 4.9/10. The consensus reads that the film has visual style to spare, but its overly serious tone doesn t jibe with its decidedly silly central premise, leaving filmgoers with an unfulfilling blend of clashing ingredients. Emanuel Levy of EmanuelLevy.com wrote that Though original, this is a strenuous effort to combine the conventions of two genres. The movie also garnered a mixed or average score of 42 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 35 reviews.

Richard Corliss of Time magazine stated that The historical epic and the monster movie run on parallel tracks, occasionally colliding but never forming a coherent whole. Christy Lemire of Associated Press meanwhile, commented on the film s tenor and visual effects, saying What ideally might have been playful and knowing is instead uptight and dreary, with a visual scheme that s so fake and cartoony, it depletes the film of any sense of danger, awarding the film a rating of 1.5 out of 4. Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal agreed, writing, Someone forgot to tell the filmmakers ... that the movie was supposed to be fun. Or at least smart.

Joe Neumaler of New York Daily News gave the film a rating of 1 out of 5, writing, This insipid mashup of history lesson and monster flick takes itself semi-seriously, which is truly deadly. The title was praised by Manohla Dargis of The New York Times, who added, it s too bad someone had to spoil things by making a movie to go with it.

Positive response, meanwhile, came from Marc Savlov of the Austin Chronicle, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has heart to spare, and the occasional silvered bayonet to run it through. USA Today reviewer Scott Bowles remarked, A stylish slasher of a movie, a monster flick that does its vampires right, if not their real-life counterparts, giving the film 2.5 out of 4. Further acclaim came from Joe Williams of St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who called it the best action movie of the summer, praised the film for presenting a surprisingly respectful tone toward American values and their most heroic proponent , calling the battlefield scenes suitably epic and commended leading star Benjamin Walker, a towering actor who looks like a young Liam Neeson and never stoops to caricature.

Box office

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter grossed $37,519,139 at the domestic box office and $78,952,441 in international markets. It received a worldwide total of $116,471,580. On its opening domestic weekend, it grossed $16.3 million from 3,108 theaters. In its second domestic weekend, it suffered a 63.1% drop, while gaining one theater. On its third weekend, it lost nearly half of its theater count, and another 67.6% in gross.

Home media

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was released on DVD, Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D in the United States and Canada on October 23, 2012.

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Recipients	Result	Ref.
2013	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor Ten and Under	Cameron M. Brown	Nominated

Soundtrack

The soundtrack to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter as composed by Henry Jackman was released digitally on June 12, 2012 and set to be released physically on July 3, 2012. In addition, Linkin Park s song Powerless , from their 2012 album Living Things premiered in the official trailer to Abraham Lincoln and was the first song to be played over the closing credits, followed by The Rampant Hunter . However, the song was not featured in the soundtrack, but still the song was released as a single under the name of soundtrack in Japan.

No.	Title	Length
1.	Childhood Tragedy	0:54
2.	Vampires	3:06
3.	What Do You Hate?	1:15
4.	Power Comes from Truth	2:29
5.	You Are Full of Surprises	1:15
6.	Mary Todd	1:56
7.	The Horse Stampede	3:15
8.	Henry Sturges	0:55
9.	Adam	1:28
10.	Rescue Mission	1:15
11.	Inauguration	1:52
12.	All Slave to Something	2:49
13.	Emancipation	0:45
14.	Haunted by the Past	3:00
15.	Battle at Gettysburg	0:49
16.	Forging Silver	1:40
17.	80 Miles	1:52
18.	The Burning Bridge	3:41
19.	Not the Only Railroad	1:38
20.	The Gettysburg Address	2:22
21.	Late to the Theater	2:00
22.	The Rampant Hunter (iTunes exclusive)	5:30
Total length:		45:32

Promotional single

No.	Title	Artist	Length
23.	Powerless	Linkin Park	3:44

Condition

New

Publisher

20Th Century Fox

Published Date

2015-09-15

Format

DVD

Brand

20Th Century Fox

Rating MPA

R

Recording Studio

20Th Century Fox

Age Group

Adult

Amazon ASIN

B005LAIHYU

UPC / EAN

024543773528

Model

Unknown

Year

2012

ReleaseDate

2012-06-22

RuntimeMins

105

RuntimeStr

1h 45min

Awards

Awards, 1 nomination

Directors

Timur Bekmambetov

Writers

Seth Grahame-Smith

Stars

Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Dominic Cooper

Produced by

Timur Bekmambetov, Tim Burton, Mark Cotone, Derek Frey, Seth Grahame-Smith, John J. Kelly, Simon Kinberg, Jim Lemley, Kathleen Switzer, Michele Wolkoff

Music by

Henry Jackman

Cinematography by

Caleb Deschanel

Film Editing by

William Hoy

Casting By

Mindy Marin

Production Design by

François Audouy

Art Direction by

Beat Frutiger

Set Decoration by

Cheryl Carasik

Costume Design by

Varvara Avdyushko, Carlo Poggioli

Makeup Department

Denise Adams, Steven E. Anderson, Joe Badiali, Robin Beauchesne, Michael F. Blake, Carla Brenholtz, Greg Cannom, Gloria Pasqua Casny, Jason Collins, Fionagh Cush, Gabriel De Cunto, Ken Diaz, Bailey Domke, Kris Evans, Sean Flanigan, Margeaux Fox, André Freitas, Greg Funk, Mark Garbarino, Allison Gordin, Gina Granger, Lumas Hamilton Jr., Betty Hamnac, Edouard F. Henriques, Elizabeth Hoel-Chang, Jules Holdren, Will Huff, Tim Jarvis, Elvis Jones, Laurel Kelly, Kevin Kirkpatrick, Erica Kyker, Steve LaPorte, Jack Lazzaro, Norma Lee, Joshua Lilly, Brad Look, Bill McCoy, Yolanda Mercadel, Beth Buckwalter Miller, Donita Miller, Anne Morgan, Chrissy Morris, Ai Nakata, Greg Nelson, Jessica Nelson, Mark Nieman, Cristina Patterson, Kim Perrodin, Stephen Prouty, Anthony M. Scott, Geordie Sheffer, Greg Solomon, Donna Spahn, Justin Stafford, Phyllis Temple, Yolanda Toussieng, Trent Cotner, Marcos Gonzales, Jamie Kelman, Mary Hedges Lampert, Dee Leveque, Darryl Lucas, Kent Richard, Remi Savva, Randa Squillacote, Miles Teves, Vicki Vacca, Tony Ward, Melizah Anguiano Wheat

Production Management

Craig Ayers, Greenlight Books, Mark Carter, Hamo Djoboulian, Aaron Downing, John J. Kelly, Jeff Valeri, Jen Wall

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Kim Barnard, Dieter Busch, Mark Carter, Mark Cotone, Julie Cummings, Allison Graham, Jim Lemley, Tommy Martin, Anastacia C. Nemec, Gerson Paz, Robert Rizzolo, Mic Rodgers, Yumiko Takeya, Georgianna Whitley

Art Department

Alexandra Adduci, A. Russell Amdal, Michael Arena, Steve Auvenshine, Charles Bodenheimer, Christopher Branan, Gail Briant, Jill Broadfoot, David Keith Broome, Shane Buckallew, Andrew Max Cahn, Michael Paul Castro, Cassie Catalanotto, Ralph Chabaud, John B. Clarey III, Todd Clevenger, Chris Clinton, Randall S. Coe, Shawn Copley, Francesco Corvino, Daniel Coulthard, Shane Decote, Guillaume DeLouche, Ken Deubel III, David Dungan, James Dupuy, Indar Dzhendubaev, Heather Elwell, Richard Ewan, Zachary Fannin, Patricio M. Farrell, Matthew Ford, Sonia L. Garcia, Julie Gueydan, Molly Harrison, Jeff Hinds, Hunter Holder, A. Todd Holland, Frank House, Lally House, Maria Jaramillo, Jerod Johnson, Peggy Johnson, Thomas V. Johnson, Jeff Julian, Tommy Karasoulis, Norman Kendrick, Alexa Kinigopoulos, Fabian Lacey, Stacy Lauricella, Mara LePere-Schloop, Ken Lewis Jr., Landon Lott, Daniel A. Maes, David Manhan, Leonard Marchand, Steve Martemucci, Bruce E. Merlin, Dave Merry, Molly Mikula, Ricky Molnar, Marco Montalvo, Charlie Montoya, Robert J. Moore Jr., Rachel Nowik, Jason Oertling, Alexis Payment, Gordon Lorne Peck Jr., Giang N. Pham, Manuel Plank-Jorge, Adele Plauche, Paul Rahfield, Robert Ramsey, Bradley Randall, Helen Rasmussen, Steffen Reichstadt, Richard Reynolds, Raj Rihal, James L. Roberts, George Sanchez, Mike Scherschel, Aaron Sims, Aleksey Smirnov, William Spataro, Victor Stech, Gordon Thomas, John J. Tibbetts, Perry James Trentacosta, David Tureau, Taylor Vaughan, Michael Vines, Trinh Vu, Joel Watts Jr., Wendy Weaver, David O. Whatley, Jason Wicksell, Robert Wilson Jr., Chris M. Wilson, Casey Zimmerman, Patrick Beals, Melisa Coby, Francesco Corvino, Hamo Djoboulian

Sound Department

Steve C. Aaron, Julie Altus, Ron Bartlett, Ron Bedrosian, Bob Beher, David Betancourt, Nick Carson, Harry Cohen, Toby Cohen, Greg Crawford, Robin Atkin Downes, Ezra Dweck, Ryan Farris, Kris Fenske, David Forshee, Nerses Gezalyan, Hector C. Gika, Tim Gomillion, Detlef Halaski, Shane Hayes, Gary A. Hecker, Doug Hemphill, Bill Higley, James Hyde, Bobby Johanson, Nick Kray, Paul Ledford, David Lucarelli, Gary Marullo, Dror Mohar, Chris Navarro, Kim H. Ornitz, Michelle Pazer, Roni Pillischer, Ryan Putz, Charleen Richards, Dennis Rogers, Brielyn Sexeny, Branden Spencer, Paul Stula, Tami Treadwell, Hugh Waddell, Filip Watermann, Jared Watt, Rabb Whitehead, Ryan Young, John Soukup

Special Effects by

Robert Benavidez, Adam Cambre, Eric Coon, Donnie Dean, Jonathan Dunn, Brent Forrest, Skylar Gorrell, Mark Hava, Justin B. Johnson, Mik Kastner, Matt Kutcher, Matthew James Kutcher, Caius Man, Brad Manis, Cristen Martemucci, Ratna Pappert, James Parsons, Monica Reilly, Wayne Rowe, Carlos Savant, Russell L. Smith, Blumes Tracy, Patricia Villalobos, Kyle A. Wasserman, Robert G. Willard

Visual Effects by

Shaun Friedberg Pyrokinesis , Seb Abante, Michael Aerni, Hunny Agarwal, Ivy Agregan, James Albiez, Anjel Alcaraz, Steve Alegria, Tim Alexander, Neishaw Ali, Lee Allan, Mark Edward Allen, Stephen Allison, Yoav Allon, Patrick L. Almanza, Schuyler Anderson, Fatima Anes, Jonathan Angelo, Chris Ankli, George Antonopoulos, Erick Aragon, Ryan Arcus, Yalda Armian, Taylor Armstrong, Creighton Ashton, Simon Assekritov, Andrew Atkinson, Kiran Auti, Derrick Auyoung, Dan Ayling, Paul A. Baccam, Simon Baker, Maggie Balaco, Jarret Ballard, K.C. Barnes, Shawn Barnett, Mark Battle, Daniel Bayona, Brittany Bell, John Bellas, Jeannie Ben-Hain, Brian N. Bentley, Maxime Besner, Aaron D. Beyer, Ashley Beyer-Whitaker, Sourajit Bhattacharya, Zena Bielewicz, Edward Blackford, Alex Blatt, David Blemur, Jonathan Block, Mike Bodkin, Jeremy Boissinot, Jason Bomstein, Marc Bonneviot, Egor Borisko, James Robert Bosley, Jonathan Bot, Marie-Pierre Boucher, Patrick Boucher, Shane Bouthillier, Jason Bowers, Peter Bowmar, Christopher Bozzetto, Adam Bradley, Derek Bradley, Michael Brako, Lee Bramwell, Milady Bridges, Kirk Brillon, Timmy Broderick, Ryan Brooks, Kyle Patrick Brown, Rochelle Brown, Edward Brugge, Shauna Bryan, Julian Bryant, Jared Buford, Andy Burmeister, Julian R. Butler, Ria-Bella Buys, Sam Buys, Regina Cachuela, John Cairns, Andrew Calder, Caitlin Campbell, Jeff Campbell, Marco Cantaluppi, Robin Stuart Cape, Curtis Carlson, Tasha Carlson, Brian Carney, Taylor Carrasco, Jeremy P. Carroll, Merlin Carroll, Monica L. Castro, Norman Cates, Luis Alberto Cayo, Nicholas Cerniglia, Gabriel D. Cervantes, Min Hyun Cha, Snata Chakraborty, Arthur Chan, Nardeep Chander, Chun-Ping Chao, Hunter Chase, Sachin Kumar Chauhan, Sneha Chavan, Peter Chen, Nick Cherry, Sujesh V. Chitty, Jong Jin Choi, Bradley Chowning, James Chretien, Eric D. Christensen, Kristy Chrobak, Jasper Chung, Julia Jooyeon Chung, Adriano Cirulli, Graham D. Clark, Jimi Clark, Joseph Clark, Craig D. Clarke, Ryan Cleveland, Francis Clément, Johann Francois Coetzee, Michael Colburn, David Cole, Jeff Cole, Chad E. Collier, Mary-Margaret Conley, Elliot Contreras, Matt Conway, Gemma Cooper, Shane Cooper, Robert Coquia Jr., Michael Corcoran, Matt Cordero, Justin Cornish, Michelle Cornwall, Joshua Coté, Andrei Coval, Eric Covello, Maurice Cox, William J. Cox, Karl Coyner, Neil Craig, Robert Cristino, Thomas Crow, Barney Curnow, Glenn Curry, Jason Cutler, Mikaël Damant-Sirois, Thomas Oliver Daniel, Rhea Darch, Brad Darrow, Sashwata Das, Dane K. 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Valentin, Luke Vallee, Josiah Van Arsdel, Sherin Varghese, Aurelio x. Vera Jr., Fabrice Vienne, Douglas Peter Viljoen, Isaac Von Leu, Anton Voytenkov, Reed Wade, Ghanshyam Sureshbhai Waghela, Chris Walker, Brenda R. Wallace, Kendrick Wallace, Gwyneth Walton, Jeffrey Warnhoff, Gregory Watkins, Mark H. Weingartner, Faith Whitehead, Jason Wilson, Jay Wilson, Nicholas Wilson, Ryan M. Wilson, Greg Winhall, Andrew Winters, Chris Winters, Garrett Winters, Teresa Winters, Paul Wojdylo, Alex Wolfe, Bruce Woloshyn, Steve Won, Clare Woodford-Robinson, Noel Wright, Peter M. Wu, Trevor Wyatt, Piotr Fox Wysocki, Junying Xu, Vladimir Yakovlev, Tuba Yalcin, Marvin Yanez, Jose Yapor, Viki Yeo, Danyo Donghyun Yoon, Joyce Young, Marvyn Young, Kian Zand, Patrick Zentis, Tristan Zerafa, Pedram Ziaei, Lakshmi Ziskin, Valery Zrazhevsky, Rajesh Babu, Pankaj Brijlani, Caleb Carr, Cody Charfauros, Colin Cunningham, William Jackson, Hetal Jain, Raechel Kasprzak, Goran Kocov, Radhakrishnan, Jonathan Ramirez, Phillip Rhee, Mk Sajith, Scott Squires, Andy Wright, Edward Paul Yu

Stunts

Andy Abele, Kenny Alexander, Matt Baker, Hunter Baxley, Matt Berberi, Lucas Bernard, John Bernecker, Christopher Berry, Preston Bishop, Chris Brewster, Bob Brown, Troy Brown, Edrick Browne, Chris Bryant, Roy Burger, Dieter Busch, Jay Caputo, Jay Carrado, Kyle Clements, Jeff Dashnaw, Shauna Duggins, Doc Duhame, Zack Duhame, Justin Eaton, Chris J. Fanguy, Guy Fernandez, Jeff Galpin, David Scott Gaudin, Adam Gomez, Nelson Greaves, Thomas Robinson Harper, Will Harper, Regis Harrington, Freddie Hice, Ronan Hice, Jace Jeanes, James Juckem, Jacob Kabel, Janice Knox, Matt Kutcher, Theo Kypri, Don Lee, David Little, Travis Wade Locke, Billy D. Lucas, Dave Macomber, Sam Malone, Kyle McCasland, John Medlen, Brandon Melendy, Chris Palermo, Alec Rayme, Justin Riemer, Larry Rippenkroeger, Mic Rodgers, Eric R Salas, Alex Schoenauer, Lew Scott, Wesley Scott, Matthew R. Staley, Larnell Stovall, Ronn Surels, Richard C. Taylor, Betty Thompson, Mallory Thompson, Tim Trella, Igor Tsay, Eric VanArsdale, Lee Whittaker, Joe Nin Williams, Mike Wilson, Dana Michael Woods, Scott Workman, Danny Wynands, John Zimmerman, Lucas Bernard, Jay Caputo, Christopher Di Meo, Shauna Duggins, Justin Eaton, Chris J. Fanguy, Jeff Galpin, Scott M. Helgert, Matt Kutcher, Don Lee, Dave Macomber, Kyle McCasland, Michael Moody, Shane Rangi, Eric R Salas, Aaron Toney, Eric VanArsdale, Michael Walton Jr., Lee Whittaker, John Zimmerman

Camera and Electrical Department

Tarik Naim Alherimi, Michael Applebaum, Jason Augustin, Rocky Babcock, Patrick Barnes, Maxwell Beard, Russell Beard, Michael S. Beckman, Barry Blackman, Autumn Boh, Nathan Borck, Sarah Bowman, Wesley Bryant, Scott Calcagno, A. Anthony Cappello, Joe Cassano, Michael Ciancio, Joseph V. Cicio, Andy Clapp, Alex Clark, Jarrid Clinkinbeard, Kenneth Coblentz, Rene Crusto, Brian Dallas, Crystal Dallas, Collin Davis, Mark A. Davis, Andrew Degnan, Louie DeMarco, Eric DePoorter, Ferdinand Duplantier Jr., Stephen Early, Brent Egan, Rowland Egerton, Travis Elkins, John Emory, Troy Felder, Guy Fernandez, Brad Garris, Matthew Gaumer, Cody Gautreau, Everett Grant, Tom Graves, Daniel Greenup, Shane E. Gros, Robb W. Gunderson, Mark Haas, Christian Hardy, Tony Hart, Tim Hawn, Brad Heiner, John C. Hoffler Jr., Richard T. Hoover, Stan Hoyt, Kyle Jenkins, Willow Jenkins, McKay Johnson, Franklin Jones II, Oren Jones, Lonnie Kahoe, Ryan Lamy, Richard Landry, Justin LeBlanc, Loui J. LeRoy, Kevin Lippincott, Lisa Long, Kevin Luster, Byron Marigny, James Marks, Griffin McCann, Bill McConnell Jr., BJ McDonnell, Mason McGuire, Aeron McKeough, Christopher Meydrich, Marcus Mizelle, Jamie Moreno, Tony Muller, Brent Swampy Mullins, Paul Olinde, Josh Oliver, Jerone A. Ordon Sr., Max Patrucco, Paul Rahfield, Richard Ramee, Patrick Ready, Patrick Redmond, Raul Riveros, Donald Roth, Declan Ryan, Jacob Sauerbrey, Giorgio Scali, Derek A. Schwebel, Codie Scott, James Selph, Joshua Sepe, Gary W. Shaw, Bartholomew Singer, Sean Smith, John St. Laurent, Brian Stegeman, Keegan Stokley, Jonathan Stoll, Tommy Tieche, Aaron Toups, Mark Toups, Remi Tournois, Jesse Valenzuela, Chad Vanko, Stephen Vaughan, John Vinson, Jason Vowell, Ryan Watson, Kristopher Weaver, Scott Wells, Spencer Wilcox, Travis Williams, Marvin Wright, Andy Young

Animation Department

Moragot Bodharamik, Stephen Clee, Nick Fredin, Peter Giliberti, Juani Guiraldes, Matthew Lajoie, Julian Legge, Merlin Bela Wassiij Maertz, Anthony McIndoe, Tom Meade, Erin Nicholson, Andrew Park, Carol Prince, Vitaliy Shubin, Nitin Singh, Celso Teixeira, Edwina Ting, Vladimir Tkachenko, Jonathan Wolfe, Leandros Paschakis, Roland Vallet

Casting Department

Kim Barnard, Robin Batherson, Joe Cappelletti, Jason Landry, Meagan Lewis, Kara Lipson, Marcy Punch

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Barbara Adducci, Michelle Bohn, Michelle l Boucher, Toby Bronson, Luca Canfora, Suzanne M.B. Chambliss, Anne Cicero, Julie Ebel, Andree Fortier, Juan Eduardo Garza, James Irvin Gates, Benj Gibicsar, Ashley Heathcock, Rebecca Higginson, Heidi Howell, Bryn Scott Hubbard, Dawn Huertas Arevalo, Joni M. Huth, Shonta Hylton, Enrica Iacoboni, Frances Jacques-LeCompte, Aurora Knox, Giovanni Lipari, Janet Melody, Gayle Merindino, Heather Rae Miller, Patrick O Driscoll, Jamie Ognibene, Michael Pawlicki, Enzo Serafino Pellegrino, Marco Piemontese, Lexi Price, Nava R. Sadan, Nick Scarano, Jacqueline Shulman, Laura Faye Sirkin-Brown, Patty Spinale, Hayley Stuppel, Michelle Toledo, Pamela Waggoner, Stephen Daniel Wayne

Editorial Department

Milton Adamou, Michael Buck, Stephen Ceci, Marisa Clayton, David Cowles, Rob Doolittle, Scott Douglas, Valance Eisleben, Greg Emerson, Tim Maxwell, Carl McKay, Daniel M. Nussbaum, Carrie Oliver, Thomas Overton, Melissa Remenarich-Aperlo, Pearce Roemer, Matvey Shatz, Lindsay Tessier, Chris Van Duyn, Skip Chaisson, Gregory Earls, Tom Forletta, Harry Muller, Joel Steven

Location Management

Ashley Bunge, Michael Dittmar, Charlie French, Elston Howard, John Jabaley, Stephen LeBlanc, Bryce Marshall, Derrick Bentley Wells

Music Department

Chris Barrett, Alex Belcher, Tyler Bryant, Al Clay, Stephen Coleman, Caroline Dale, Jack Dolman, Matt Dunkley, Richard Edwards, Frank J. Garcia, Gavin Greenaway, Steven Kofsky, Daniel Kresco, Chris Lawrence, Dominic Lewis, Steve Mair, Matthew Margeson, Rebecca Morellato, Everton Nelson, Benjamin R. Robinson, Mikael Sandgren, Owen Slade, Jason Soudah, Daniel J. Stimac, Jill Streater, Jeanette Surga, Vicci Wardman, Richard Watkins, Hugh Webb, Nick Wollage, Warren Zielinski, Thomas Cavanaugh, Ellen Ginsburg, Patrick Houlihan, Elyse Willis

Script and Continuity Department

Mary Frances Eglin, Lori Grabowski, Sheila Waldron, Simon Kinberg

Transportation Department

Morris Aroesti, Virgil Bienemy, Myron D. Bunch, Charley Bob Burnham, Corey T. Dudley, Bart Figueiredo, Robert Jepson, Lionel C. Johnson, Alan Kaminsky, Brian Kay, Phuong Pham, Jesse Quiet, Jeff Rachal, Francis Robinson, Albert Samson, Dave Woodcock, Christy Zeller

Additional Crew

Heather Babineaux, Kim Barnard, Jane Bickford, Bruce Bishop, Erin Booth, Amanda Brand, Christina Bright, George Brooks, Ben Brunkhardt, Roy Burger, David Bush, Kris Butler, Cecilia Cardwell, Andrew Carlson, Ardy Brent Carlson, Tom Caster, Clay Chamberlin, Jason Chandler, Felder Charbonnet, Edward J. Clare, Benton Collinsworth, Christy M. Corb, Brandon Cordon, Brian James Cote, Justin Coulter, Alan Crawford, Amanda Curry, Kera Dacy, Melynie Dangerfield, Alicia Dean, Gil Dean, Karen Dean, Matthew Derba, Anthony Dixon, Chelsea Donison, Sean J. Donnelly, Zack Earl Edwards, Erin Fitzgerald, Matthew Ford, Dustin Frost, Gregory Allen Gabroy, Jeff Galpin, Jeffrey Gladu, Santho Goonewardene, Josephine L. Gordon, Nelson Greaves, Matthew K. Grigsby, Justin Groetsch, Dan Gutierrez, Thirl Haston, Shelley Hatch, Elias Heartnet, Deuce Cheryl Hedrick, Allan Henry, Annie Holstein, Warner Todd Huston, Rachel Jacob, Sebastian James, Ari Joffe, Kaylee Johnson, Ted Kantrow, Daniel Kepler, Jeremy Kirkland, Janice Knox, Noah Korff, Ashley Lambert, David Little, Travis Wade Locke, Brandon Lohstreter, Andy Luce, Jessica Luebe, Darren Manzari, Krystal Mathiesen, Robert K. McCasland, Jordan McKown, Anne Messner, David Midgen, Matt Minshall, Callie Moore, Dennis J. Moore, Bárbara Morelos-Zaragoza, Molly Murray, Michael D. Nes, Kathy Chambless Oliver, Jesse Michael Owen, Manny Penton, Rachel Perez, Dirk Peterson, Chris Petro II, Annie Poirier, Brie Puneky, Jennifer Ramirez, Bradley Randall, Ellis Randolph, Nick Reasons, Ronnie Reeves, Darren Richardson, Ryan Robison, Brett Roedel, Brian Roedel, Blake Roussel, Adam Ryan, Rebecca R. Ryan, Howard Samuelsohn, Ashley Renee Saunders, Derek A. Schwebel, Lew Scott, Caroline Seale, Francine Segal, Kenneth Shelton, Brett P. Smith, Rick Sobalvarro, Paula Stier, Eric Stratemeier, Darren Sumner, Sharon Swan, Bernadette Tanchauco, A.J. Timmcke, Jimmy Uddo, Marc Uddo, Warren Upson, Charles Dillon Ward, Alexander B. Williams, Spencer R. Williams, Eric Scott Williamson, Ashley Wright, Sean Paul Braud, Jason Frannino, Jeff Galpin, Alexander B. Hill, Dan Hindes, Tom Proctor, Ronnie Reeves, Margaret Richey, Mark Smith, Glenn Tocher, Charles Dillon Ward, Mark J. Woods

Genres

Action, Fantasy, Horror

Companies

Abraham Productions, Bazelevs Production, Genre Films

Countries

USA, Russia

Languages

English

ContentRating

R

ImDbRating

5.9

ImDb Rating Votes

155974

Metacritic Rating

42

Short Description

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a 2012 American supernatural horror action film directed by Timur Bekmambetov and based on the novel of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith, 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. Benjamin Walker stars as Abraham Lincoln with supporting roles by Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell, and Marton Csokas.

The film was produced by Tim Burton, Bekmambetov, and Jim Lemley, with Simon Kinberg as an executive producer. Filming began in Louisiana in March 2011 and the film was released in Real D 3D on June 20, 2012 in the United Kingdom and June 22, 2012 in the United States. 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. The film also failed to meet expectations at the box office, grossing $116 million worldwide against the budget of $69-$99 million.

Box Office Budget

$69,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office Opening Weekend USA

$16,306,974

Box Office Gross USA

$37,519,139

Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross

$116,471,580

Keywords

Vampire hunter,undead,shopkeeper,abraham lincoln character,vampire