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Red Band Trailer for Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter Released

By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on May 25, 2012 2:30PM

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Back in February the trailer for Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter was released.

The Tim Burton-produced film, starring Benjamin Walker as an axe-wielding emancipator of the undead, looks beautiful stylistically under the direction of Timur Bekmambetov, who made bullets shot from guns do physically impossible NASCAR-style turns in 2008's Wanted. But we were expecting more gore with a red band trailer. And Rufus Sewell (of the underrated Dark City) toes the line between menace and humor as the vampire leader who, like the Confederacy, "wants a nation of (their) own."

What do you think?