History Film / AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter

** Lincoln himself will be portrayed by Benjamin Walker.
** His wife [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Mary_Todd_Lincoln2crop.jpg Mary Todd]] will be portrayed by MaryElizabethWinstead.
** His mother[[hottip:*:Of whom no known portrait exists, but by written accounts isn't nearly that pretty]] will be played by Robin [=McLeavy=].

* ChekhovsGun: Early on, Henry tells Abe that the blunderbuss is the best gun to use, since even if you drop the shot, the gun is large enough that you can still load it with something else. [[spoiler: When Vadoma ambushes Mary near the end of the movie, she quickly loads a blunderbuss with her silver TragicKeepsake and shoots her in the head.]]

Young AbrahamLincoln sees his mother die when he is just a boy. He soon discovers that a vampire is responsible. Swearing [[YouKilledMyFather vengeance]], Lincoln goes on to moonlight as a [[TheHunter vampire hunter]] with the help of vampire hunter [[TheObiWan Henry Sturges]].

* AutomatonHorses: Speeds carriage [[spoiler: running straight through a wall.]]

* BladassLongcoat: Abe wears his famous longcoat at various points in the film.

* BadassLongcoat: Abe wears his famous longcoat at various points in the film.

* TraintopBattle: The film's climax has one of these between Lincoln and his allies and Adam and his {{Mooks}} atop the train carrying silver ammunition to the Union troops in Gettysburg.

* VulnerableConvoy: The train full of silver ammunition that's vital to the war effort. The entire climax of the movie centers around Abe and co. defending it against a vampire attack as it makes its way to Gettysburg.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: The plan is to [[spoiler:produce silver ammunition and ship it over to Gettysburg with the vampires being none the wiser,]] which the audience is made aware of well before it's carried out; naturally, the vampires find out about it and make their strike. [[spoiler:This is then subverted when it turns out that there was in fact a crucial unspoken part of the plan, and the vampires played right into it.]]

* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: After Jefferson Davis recruits the vampires into the Confederate Army and things start to go sour at Gettysburg, Lincoln devises a plan to gather up all the silverware in Washington and melt it down to produce silver ammunition. The outcome of the war hinges on safely transporting the ammo to Gettysburg, which becomes the focal point of the film's climax.

* VulnerableConvoy: The train full of vital silver ammunition. The entire climax of the movie centers around Abe and co. defending it against a vampire attack as it makes its way to Gettysburg.

* AdaptationDistillation: Among other things, [[spoiler: Henry isn't revealed to be a vampire for some time, there don't appear to be any other good vampires, and there's no sign that Lincoln is raised as a vampire following his assassination.]]

* MarketBasedTitle: Foreign markets have given the film several different titles, including ''President Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'' (Russia, Thailand, Taiwan), ''Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'' (Hong Kong, South Korea), ''The Legend of the Vampire Hunter'' (Italy), and ''Secret Diary of the Vampire Hunter'' (Portugal).

Young AbrahamLincoln sees his mother die when he is just a boy. He soon discovers that a vampire is responsible. Swearing [[YouKilledMyFather vengeance]], Lincoln goes on to moonlight as a [[TheHunter vampire hunter]] with the help of [[FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire ethical vampire]] [[TheObiWan Henry Sturges]].