President Lincoln: The Vampire Hunter was directed by two notable directors of our time. Tim Burton acted as a producer, Timur Bekmambetov as a director. This distribution of responsibilities affected the mood of the film: Burton's irony faded into the background, Bekmambetov's craving for battle and patriotism prevailed.
The script of the film is based on the novel of the same name by Seth Graham-Smith. It cleverly combines real and fictional stories. The vampire storyline, which is popular today, is woven into the real biography of Abraham Lincoln. Focusing on the fight against the forces of evil, the filmmakers told about the main stages of the life of the 16th President of the United States.
The boy, who would later become a politician, lives with his parents at a planter in Indiana. Endowed with a sense of justice since childhood, he once stands up for a little negro. As a result of this story, Abraham's father quarrels with the planter, and the family loses this job. In addition to everything, the owner demands that he be paid off the debt, and when he is refused, he (who turns out to be a vampire) kills Lincoln's mother.
After that, viewers see Abraham as an adult. The film is generally characterized by a fragmentary, chopped plot development. The young man tries to take revenge on his mother's killer, but he comes to life, and Lincoln learns that the vampire is not so easy to destroy. However, he meets a stranger who becomes his mentor in the fight against the enemy. He persuades Abraham to join the struggle between the north and south of the country. As conceived by the authors of the script, the civil war was fought between the vampires who occupied the slave-owning south of the country and the free northerners.
Much of the film is devoted to scenes of fighting between humans and vampires. Fans of special effects will surely appreciate what is happening on the screen. Abraham Lincoln has a successful political career, becomes President of the United States and delivers the famous speech on the emancipation of slaves. He leads the troops of the North, supplying them with saving silver. After that, detachments of people begin an offensive and ultimately triumph in the civil war.
Lincoln gives up the opportunity to become a vampire and gain immortality. He chooses human life and politics. But, as is known from history, he was soon mortally wounded during one of the funniest scenes of the play, to which the president came with his wife.
