After losing his mother to a vampire attack in his youth, a young Abraham Lincoln (played by Benjamin Walker) vows revenge. Trained by a mysterious mentor named Henry Sturges (Dominic Cooper), Lincoln learns to hunt vampires using a silver-plated axe. As he rises to political power, he realizes that the Confederacy is heavily backed by an army of the undead led by the ancient vampire Adam (Rufus Sewell).
The cinematography relies heavily on extreme speed ramping—slowing down time during a strike and accelerating it a moment later—paired with high-contrast, desaturated color grading that mimics 19th-century tintype photography. While the premise borders on absurd, the performances, particularly Walker’s earnest portrayal of Lincoln, treat the material with a straight-faced gravity that grounds the over-the-top action sequences. Critical and Commercial Reception abraham lincoln vampire hunter mp4moviez