16th president sucks blood in UI graduate's new horror film

Filmmaker and recent University of Illinois graduate Chris Lukeman is bracing himself for the criticism he's likely to receive for his latest film, to be released on the Internet today, Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday.

In "The Transient," the 16th president is a vampire who wants to suck the blood of four-score-and-seven virgins so he can return to life and run for president.

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