
“The Strain” by Guillermo del Toro
What begins as a terrific premise and opening set-up for an original tale quickly devolves to action tropes and rehashed storytelling.
What begins as a terrific premise and opening set-up for an original tale quickly devolves to action tropes and rehashed storytelling.
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Beautiful, sweeping, small town American horror centered around our fear of mortality and personal unease.
Levin’s clean and modern anesthetized prose simultaneously distances us from the possibility of horror and creates it. A novel more successful than its filmic-visual counterpart for what it blinds itself to.
Sloane’s novella, a hybrid cosmic horror/whodunnit, is a satisfying read, not despite of but because of his slow burn deferral to character behavior over “unspeakable horror.”
The tremendous 1818 version of the tale, heady and philosophical, its principle horrors gutted by the film versions which followed.
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