As a fan of the book I thought the movie was an awful representation. There was no depth to Abe. All the tradegy in his life all the death that shaped him to the hunter that he is. Understandably they couldn't include everything but the stuff that added and 85% of the book they left out, they could have easily called it David Copperfield: Vampire Hunter. I would have enjoyed the film if they took the Abe character out and made the film a civil war era vampire film. Well they did the opposite and made a civil war era vampire film and plugged Abe in it. Extremely let down.