Politically active when already a boy, young Abraham Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) also has a keen sense of equality and is disgusted by the treatment of slaves in America. When his mother is savagely killed by a vampire, Abraham soon realizes that his political ambition and his desire for vengeance are linked: trained by a vampire killer, he acquires a hatchet and goes after the bloodsuckers, who have come to enlarge the ranks of the Confederates during the Civil War and demand their own right to exist as living beings. And so the future president of the United States finds himself on a mission to save his people from the invasion of vampires.

No sign here of beautifully pale, romantic vampires making eyes at hordes of delirious nymphettes. Instead, oceans of blood are filmed in slow motion as they're thrown around the screen, with not a drop gone to waste as it gushes from throats ravaged by Timur Bekmambetov's blood suckers, whose ugliness is reinforced by 3D effects. As for the very controversial reinterpretation of American history, in which vampires have equal footing with blacks in demanding equal rights, it leaves a very bad taste in your mouth.