Blade

 CA I do think he overstates his case a bit – the last decade has offered such a surfeit of vampire stories, that there would seem to be something for everyone (not least del Toro's own Blade II, easily the best of that franchise). ...

From his early film "Chronos" to his Wesley Snipes vehicle "Blade II" to his flirtation with helming "I Am Legend," the Mexican-born director has mined the mythology of various blood-sucking, flesh-eating undead for years. But as del Toro revealed when ...

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Tampabay.com  UT The thing with 'The Strain,' is I took all the ideas that I posited on 'Blade II' but (that) wouldn't fit (David) Goyer's story line. All these ideas were really annotations on vampire biology I had made over the years: How long does it take to change ...

His “Blade II” with a script by David Goyer (The Dark Knight) featured hellish, non-human vampire creatures that achieved both “cool” and “scary”. The writers make no attempt to disguise them, they are the same creatures that del Toro envisioned and ...

Horror Yearkbook  CA Tess Noncoiré, successful fantasy writer and Celestial Blade Warrior, has gone to a writers' conference in Las Vegas, taking along her mother, who is depressed over the death of her demon husband. Taking in one of Vegas' Big Acts, Tess is amazed to see ...

This newest credit seems to recycle ideas from del Toro's 2002 vampire movie Blade II and Hogan's 1998 novel The Blood Artists, whose freaky scenario has egghead heroes scrambling to hunt down a plague carrier. In The Strain, a plane lands in New York, ...

of HELLBOY movies, PAN'S LABYRINTH, BLADE II, MIMIC and CRONOS, signing copies of his first novel, the vampire epic THE STRAIN, on Friday (5 pm-7 pm). ... and more »

 Venezuela An admitted fan of vampire stories since he was little, the director of science fiction films such as “Blade II,” “Hellboy” and the Oscar-winning “El Laberinto del Fauno” (Pan's Labyrinth) said that the first book, titled “The Strain,” will be full of ...