Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Page #5

Synopsis: At the age of 9, Abraham Lincoln witnesses his mother being killed by a vampire, Jack Barts. Some 10 years later, he unsuccessfully tries to eliminate Barts but in the process makes the acquaintance of Henry Sturgess who teaches him how to fight and what is required to kill a vampire. The quid pro quo is that Abe will kill only those vampires that Henry directs him to. Abe relocates to Springfield where he gets a job as a store clerk while he studies the law and kills vampires by night. He also meets and eventually marries the pretty Mary Todd. Many years later as President of the United States, he comes to realize that vampires are fighting with the Confederate forces. As a result he mounts his own campaign to defeat them.
Director(s): Timur Bekmambetov
Production: 20th Century Fox
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
42
Rotten Tomatoes:
35%
R
Year:
2012
105 min
$37,300,000
Website
2,266 Views


I am sorry, Mary.

I am sorry I have kept you

in the dark all these years.

I need you, Mary.

I have waited a long time

to hear you say those words.

I want you to leave Washington, Mary.

Miss Tubman, please have some tea.

I very much appreciate you

coming to speak with me today.

Oh, yes.

Things have not been easy,

what with my...

The death of my son and the war.

I need to get out of Washington.

And I need a lot of help.

This war ends tonight.

And with it,

our millennia of darkness.

We have to do this on our own.

No one can know what's on that train.

If we don't get those weapons

to those boys at Gettysburg,

the war is over.

It's time we had a nation of our own.

Come,

we have a train to catch.

It's 80 miles from here to Gettysburg.

Eighty miles will decide whether

this nation belongs to the living

or the dead.

Is everything all right, Speed?

I just can't believe you're

still writing in that book.

It's all in here, Speed.

The good with the bad.

What's this?

They're fleeing the nest.

Leaving Washington free for us.

Look at me.

I said look at me.

Leave her.

Don't want to miss this train.

Let's go.

Henry, what the hell

are you doing here?

I just wanted to see how far

your foolishness would take you.

I don't have time to argue.

I didn't come here to argue with you.

I came here to tell you that your

dear friend Speed back there

is a traitor.

He betrayed you, Abe.

Speed is leading you...

You have no idea

what you're talking about.

That's all according to plan.

You must get off this train.

No, you must get off this train.

This is not your war, Henry.

Ah.

They're here, Abe.

A whole heap of them.

We can't let them stop this train.

You go through there and you're dead.

Get out now, it's your last chance.

Did you load that thing?

We have got to keep them

away from the locomotive.

Why don't you let him go, Lincoln?

Emancipate yourselves.

I will never follow you.

Oh, you don't have to follow me, Abe.

I have the train.

I have the silver.

Soon I will have the whole country.

I am going to destroy the

myth of Abraham Lincoln

so that history will forever

know you not as a man,

but as a monster.

Lincoln set us up.

We have been tricked, Adam.

There is no silver on this train.

Abe.

Abe.

Abe.

Hello, Speed.

Where is the silver?

Silver?

Should be here.

Why did you lie to me?

To get you all in one place,

to finish you.

Speed?

No.

Mr. President.

There is nowhere left to run, Lincoln.

Where is it?

Where is the silver?

Right here.

Thank you, Henry.

I suppose some vampires

can be trusted.

As can some men, Abraham.

If the train was a decoy,

where is the silver?

This isn't the only rail road.

A wise man once taught me,

always have a contingency plan.

Get me more.

Bayonets. Bayonets for

Springfield muskets.

Springfield muskets.

Five-pounders and grenades are

in the second wagon in the back.

Go now, go now.

Fire.

Four score and seven years ago,

our fathers brought forth

on this continent

a new nation conceived in liberty

and dedicated to the proposition

that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged

in a great civil war,

testing whether that

nation, or any nation

so conceived and so dedicated,

can long endure.

It is for us, the living, rather

to be dedicated here

to the unfinished work

which they who fought here

have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us

to be here dedicated

to the great task remaining before us

that from these honored dead we take

increased devotion to that cause

for which they gave the last

full measure of devotion,

that we here highly

resolve that these dead

shall not have died in vain,

and that this nation, under God,

shall have a new birth of freedom,

and that government

of the people, by the

people, for the people,

shall not perish from the earth.

Our enemies have made their exodus.

Some back to Europe,

some to South America and the Orient.

They have seen that America shall

forever be a nation of living men,

a nation of free men.

We make rather a good team, you and I.

One can't help but think of all the

good we could do if we had more time.

Limitless time.

Lincoln.

Yes, well, time waits for no man.

We're going to be late for the theater.

Hold onto this for me, Henry.

Mary, darling,

have you seen my hat?

It's on your desk in the office.

Have you seen my hat?

Abraham, let me make you immortal.

Let us fight through the

ages, side by side.

Vampires are not the only

things that live forever.

History prefers legends to men.

It prefers nobility to brutality.

Soaring speeches to quiet deeds.

History remembers the battle

and forgets the blood.

However history remembers

me, if it does at all,

it shall only remember

a fraction of the truth.

One more.

A guy only gets that drunk when he

wants to kiss a girl or kill a man.

So, which is it?

# I watched you fall

apart and chased you to the end #

# I am left with emptiness

that words cannot defend #

# You will never know what

I became because of you #

# Ten thousand promises #

# Ten thousand ways to lose #

# And you held it all #

# And I was by your side #

# Powerless #

# Powerless #

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Seth Grahame-Smith

Seth Grahame-Smith (born Seth Jared Greenberg; January 4, 1976) is an American novelist, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the author of The New York Times best-selling novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, both of which have been adapted as feature films. Grahame-Smith is also the co-creator, head writer and executive producer of The Hard Times of RJ Berger, a scripted television comedy appearing on MTV. In collaboration with David Katzenberg, his partner in Katzsmith Productions, Grahame-Smith is currently developing a number of projects for television and film. more…

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