Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

When Lincoln finds his pocket watch on the floor of his son's playroom, we cut to a close-up of Lincoln opening the watch to read the inscription.

Cut to Lincoln, the watch is still closed.

When President Lincoln calls his son Willie over for a kiss, the Presidents friend Will calls Willie over for a kiss and after Willie leaves the office Will's glasses are on his face then disappears then reappear.

At the ball where Lincoln dances with Mary, the music playing is Estudiantina waltz, or Band of Students Waltz.

The Estudiantina waltz, or Band of Students Waltz is a musical arrangement, made in 1883, by Emile Waldteufel, which would be his Opus 191, No.

Its melody was composed earlier in 1881 by Paul Lacome, with lyrics by J.

de Lau Lusignan.

At several times throughout the movie, Abraham Lincoln is seen in closeups wearing contact lenses.

When Will loads his revolver on the train, he places a ball in the breach side of the cylinder.

Civil War era revolvers were muzzle loaders and required a percussion cap to ignite the powder charge.

The pistol is clearly chambered for cartridges, not as cap and ball.

During the Plantation scene, there are multiple close up shots of Abraham and Speed watching the dancers from the outside, through windows.

Clearly the reflections of both the slaves and the vampires can be seen in the glass.

However, when Henry was explaining to Lincoln that vampires had a weakness to silver and could be killed by silver weapons, he also explicitly said they don't show reflections in *mirrors* and it's implied that it's because of the silver is used in mirrors to be reflective.

They can show a reflection in reflective materials that aren't silver.

When Abe expresses to Henry an interest in becoming a vampire hunter, the year should have been, based on chronological clues (the year of Abe's mother's death, 1818, etc) sometime in the late 1820s.

Henry, however, shows Abe a magic lantern slide show including several photographic portraits.

As of the late 1820s, only the most primitive, experimental, still photographs requiring extremely long exposure times were possible.

The Daguerreotype wasn't introduced until 1838 or so, with the first known photographic portraits being taken around that time.

Several times during the movie,the second floor balcony of the White House is shown.

The balcony however was not added to the house until the Truman renovation in the late 1940's,early '50's.

In a scene showing the US Capitol Building, there is recessed electrical lighting on the overhang of the building.

Shortly after Adam takes the pocket watch from Bart's hand , he slams the coffin lid down before walking away.

Moments later, when the coffin is in shot again, the lid is in a different position.

When Abraham is thrown on the ground during his first vampire fight, he receives numerous scratches on his chest, his clothes are torn in pieces and covered in his own blood.

When he wakes up in the bed there is not even a single wound or mark on his chest.

When Lincoln's son is playing with his toy fort, there are flags with 15 stars.

This flag was being used till 1818 but he is playing with it during the civil war - 1861-1865.

It is very unlikely that he has more than 50 years old toy and his father Abraham Lincoln doesn't want him to have the right flag.

After Lincoln's first fight he has a wound on his right eye.

After Henry teaches him that silver will kill a vampire, they are hanging out in a bar and the eye wound is gone.

Next scene the two are looking at anachronistic photos and the wound has reappeared.

When the young slave gets whipped by the slave owner in the beginning of the movie, the location of the scar below his left eye changes between scenes.

Just after meeting Mary Todd while working in a small store, Abe receives a letter.

While the narrator reads the letter aloud - "Your prescription awaits you at the local pharmacy.

Ask for Aaron Stibble.

" - the actual letter says nothing of the sort.

The newspaper headline read, "Six headless bodies found in Springfield".

It seems highly unlikely that any bodies would ever be found since Lincoln was shown burying each of the six vampire bodies in remote unmarked locations.

Lincoln's stove pipe hat was able to support the full weight of Mary Todd.

Any hat of this sort would easily collapse under the slightest weight of anyone's foot.

After the battle on the horses and the roll down the hill, Abe loses the ax that is picked up and swung by Barts.

The ax then hits a log next to Abe's head and it is clearly seen that it bounces against the log.

When Lincoln is on the boat coming into New Orleans, St.

Louis Cathedral is on the upper right side of the river, that part of the Mississippi River is the only section that flows north.

Meaning, instead of coming down the river from St.

Louis the cathedral should be on the left, they were coming up the river from the Gulf of Mexico.

In 2012, the year of our lord, the 150th anniversary of America's historic Emancipation Proclamation gave cinema goers a strikingly factious choice of celebratory viewing, ether Steven Spielberg's Lincoln staring Daniel Day Lewis as the 16th president or Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter directed by Timur Bekmambetov. We will leave aside the awkward existence of Abraham Lincoln vs.

The title says it all. You get not just the plot, but the style and the tone.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is, in my opinion, a love it or hate it kind of movie. There are many people giving this film a nine or ten star rating, while on the other side of that, there are plenty of people who have given this film a two or three star rating, and the reasoning behind that is simply because of difference in taste.

I think sometimes what works well in a comic book doesn't necessarily translate effectively on screen. Mostly shot in sepia-toned dreary, saturated tones, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter becomes beholden to a CGI dependency like crack to an addict, Hollywood these days can't do without that visual effects fix.

I have to confess that, based on the title alone, this movie has intrigued me for a long time. I have to confess as well that, based on the title alone, I've put off watching this movie for some time.

The movie has a strange story, vampires have been added to historical characters and events. America fought vampires in the civil war.

For a movie that had decent acting and special effects, they couldn't think up a better story? Just couldn't get over the title and story.

Much like Hansel & Gretel (being assassins) this new imagining of the vampire world into an historical action movie is a welcomed inclusion to the genre.Its fun and loud with good action that gave me a new respect for President Lincoln!!

A mindnumbingly insulting concept and terminally boring execution. A snoozefest.