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Vampires without Glitter or Girl Problems: Inside Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Strain’
The Daily Beast ^ | July 14, 2014 | Andrew Romano

Posted on 07/14/2014 6:40:49 AM PDT by C19fan

The infected have worms writhing under their skin and vicious stingers waiting to shoot out of their mouths at the slightest whiff of hemoglobin. The Strain isn't Twilight. The Strain isn’t your average vampire show.

This much would have been obvious to anyone watching the series’ premiere Sunday night on FX. For starters, there’s the story. A plane lands at JFK, then stops dead on the tarmac. As epidemiologist Ephraim Goodweather (the excellent Corey Stoll of House of Cards) soon discovers, everyone on board is dead—or so it seems. What Goodweather assumes to be a virus actually turns out to be a virulent strain of vampirism—one that has secretly transformed most of the unconscious passengers into the bloodsucking undead and left behind a handful of survivors to morph more slowly (and graphically) as the parasitic bug consumes them from the inside out.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: deltoro; vampires
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To: laotzu

Thanks for the laughs. Those pics were hilarious! (still snickering)


21 posted on 07/14/2014 10:41:52 AM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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To: C19fan

Movies like “Twilight” and webtoons like “Orange Marmalade” say that Vampires are just misunderstood.


22 posted on 07/14/2014 10:49:29 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: laotzu

LOL! Twilight fans and soccer fans are so similar. Easily manipulated overaged women and underaged girls and the Twilight fans are just like them. ;-)


23 posted on 07/14/2014 11:34:51 AM PDT by Waryone
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To: Dalberg-Acton
"Downloading from Amazon right now."

Please let us know what you think about it!

24 posted on 07/14/2014 1:26:49 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: CatherineofAragon

30 Days of Night is well worth watching. They don’t hide the vampires and they’re really scary.


25 posted on 07/14/2014 7:36:38 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton
"30 Days of Night is well worth watching. They don’t hide the vampires and they’re really scary."

They were, weren't they? Just vicious.

Glad you enjoyed the movie.

26 posted on 07/15/2014 12:47:14 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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