Ok, maybe you don’t have to “be the tree” to take it down in one fell swoop, but it doesn’t hurt to be 6’4″ like the late President Abraham Lincoln…or to dredge up and concentrate all the hate and rage that you feel at having your mother taken from you at a young age…by vampires.

As someone who loved the novel, I’m pretty excited about the movie version, which opens this Friday, June 22. A United States President who took care of vampire threats while seeing the country through a turbulent civil war – that’s a guy whose candidacy I could get behind in an election. Oh well, until our nation finds itself in the middle of a vampire apocalypse, we have this movie.