Useless Movie Trivia For Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

Memorable Movie Quotes

Henry Sturgess: A guy only gets that drunk when he wants to kiss a girl or kill a man. So which is it?

Mary Todd Lincoln: Well, I wouldn’t back away from what’s right just because it’s hard. My father used to say: plant your feet and stand firm. The only question is where to put your feet.

Abraham Lincoln: Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Trivia

The scene where President Lincoln works at a large Oval Office desk while his son Willie plays with toys beneath it, is based on an iconic photograph of President John F. Kennedy and little John Kennedy Jr.

Shipped to the cinema with codename “Bloody Honest”.

Benjamin Walker previously appeared, in 2010, in a stage production called “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.” In both that play and this film, he plays a title character who is a fantasy version of a real-life American President.

Goofs

Several times during the movie, the second floor balcony of the White House is shown. The balcony however was not added to the house until the Harry S. Truman renovation circa 1950.

When Abraham is thrown on the ground during his first vampire fight, he receives numerous scratches on his chest, his clothes are torn in pieces and covered in his own blood. When he wakes up in the bed there is not even a single wound or mark on his chest.

Lincoln’s stove pipe hat supports the full weight of Mary Todd. Any hat of this sort would easily collapse under the slightest weight of anyone’s foot.

Box Office Info In USA

Budget: $69,000,000

Gross: $37,516,013

Weekend Gross: $16,306,974 (June 24, 2013)

Filming Locations

Oak Alley Plantation – 3645 Highway 18, Vacherie, Louisiana, USA (Used for exterior shots of Adam’s plantation, and for interior shots of the White House.)
French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Second Line Stages, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (stages)
Covington, Louisiana, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA