'Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' Posters

Abe Lincoln is getting alot of screen time lately with Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis bringing his life story to the big screen. But there is one part of Abe Lincolns life that has been kept private and that's his love of vampire hunting.

Seth Grahame Smith has brought this movie mash up to the screen with the help of Tim Burton.

The film finds Benjamin Walker as Abe, a man haunted by the murder of his mother, a victim of the fanged threat. Fuelled by vengeance, he swears to wipe out the vampires, but needs a little training at the hands of helpful undead type Henry Sturgess (Dominic Cooper). We get to follow his, life, including his marriage to Mary Todd Lincoln (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and his conflict with the evil Adam (Rufus Sewell) as he tries to take down the double threat of slavery and vampires.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter will be out on August 2, 2012