Horror

The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson (Italian edition)

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The novel “The Space Vampires” by Colin Wilson was published for the first time in 1976.

The starship Hermes is on a mission to explore the asteroids when it runs into a huge spaceship apparently abandoned. Captain Carlsen and his crew start exploring it and discover the bodies of what appear totally like human beings. These bodies are in a state of apparent death and it’s decided to bring back three of them to Earth.

A journalist, the son of an old friend of Captain Carlsen, is allowed to enter the laboratory in which the bodies found in space are kept. While he’s checking one of them, a woman, she wakes up and absorbs his life force. The aliens are vampires and if they aren’t stopped the consequences will be devastating for humanity.

Rutger Hauer at the Odessa International Film Festival in 2010

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Rutger Oelsen Hauer was born on January 23, 1944 in Breukelen, in the province of Utrecht, the Netherlands. During his career he participated in a lot of movies of various genres. His roles have been very diverse but he’s most remembered for the role of the replicant Roy Batty hunted by the character played by Harrison Ford in the masterpiece “Blade Runner”.

The Fall by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

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The novel “The Fall” by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan was published for the first time in 2010. It’s the second novel in the Strain trilogy and is the sequel to “The Strain”.

The heterogeneous group formed by professor Abraham Setrakian, epidemiologist Ephraim Goodweather, his colleague Nora Martinez and exterminator Vasiliy Fet is trying to organize a resistance against the lethal virus that is causing an epidemic definitely out of the ordinary in New York. The infected are turned into vampires, part of the plan of an old master who wants to impose his power.

The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

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The novel “The Strain” by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan was published for the first time in 2009. It’s the first novel of the Strain trilogy.

A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK Airport in New York but soon after landing communications are interrupted and no sign of life comes by passengers or crew. Dr. Ephraim “Eph” Goodweather, head of a team that deals with possible biological threats, is called to check whether it’s a case of bioterrorism and when he enters the aircraft its crew and passengers are almost all dead for no apparent reason.

The Fire Worm by Ian Watson

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The novel “The Fire Worm” by Ian Watson was published for the first time in 1988.

John Cunningham is a psychiatrist who has a kind of double life in which his alter-ego Jack Cannon is a horror writer. To maintain his medical reputation, he reveals no information about his true identity, not even to his publisher. However, his second identity is to him like a second personality.