It’s got a Stephen King ‘Salem’s Lot vibe in those descriptions. Especially creepy is the way that Manhattan is soon being quietly overrun during the initial outbreak. The book had a fresh take on the vampire story and Del Toro and co-author Chuck Hogan do a good job of mixing some Old World vampire mysticism with 21st century science and tech. Before you can say 'Bela Lugosi', a CDC doctor is getting lessons from a Van Helsing wannabe named Setrakian on the best way to deal with the vamps, which are essentially a parasitic virus run amok with a Master bloodsucker as the main villain pulling the strings to launch a full scale vampire apocalypse. And he does a pretty good job.Ī Boeing 777 lands in New York but most of the passengers are dead. Too bad because I’d pay good money to see that.ĭel Toro, who directed several horror movies as well as the critically acclaimed but extremely gruesome Pan’s Labyrinth, apparently was tired of the vampires being castrated by hordes of adoring teenage girls and set out to make them monsters again.
A six foot stinger/sucker thing flies out, and it zaps that silly girl right in a major artery and drains her dry in about twenty seconds while parasitic worms take over her corpse and turn her into a mindless bloodsucking meatbag.Īnd that is why Guillermo Del Toro will never direct one of the Twilight movies. Suddenly Edward’s head flips back and his throat opens up like he just became a Pez dispenser. Imagine that you’re reading one of those Twilight books as Edward is whispering chaste sweet nothings into Bella’s ear, and it was oh-so-romantic-and-couldn’t-you-just-die-OMG-OMG-OMG.
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