Comments on: Teaser Trailer For Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘The Strain’

By: hamlet3k

hamlet3k — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:40:49 +0000

Just finished the book, actually. I know, I know, I’m pretty effing behind.

Brilliant. That’s a pretty concise review, sure, but it’s all I’ve got. I’m intrigued where the series is going to go.

I now understand why Blade 2 stands out as the real odd-man-out of the franchise. The Reapers are del Toro’s vampires. The vamps in “The Strain” are hyperactive blood addicts with grotesquely rearranged internal anatomy and that hideous whip-like proboscis… I wondered why the Reaper strain didn’t make another appearance in Blade 3… GdT took ‘em with him when he left.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:30:50 +0000

@Vic, they have a video teaser for a book, these comments are mandatory, lol.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:30:01 +0000

@Joshi

Even better than audio commentary, I heard it’ll have page in page (PIP) commentary.

By: Joshi

Joshi — Sun, 31 May 2009 20:40:40 +0000

In all seriousness, I actually do own a couple of books with deleted scenes in them. :p

By: Ross Miller

Ross Miller — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:52:04 +0000

@Bill Blume,

I realize this isn’t the first time there’s been a video trailer for a book, but it’s one of the few times I’ve seen it have as much effort put into it, with as good production value. As you say, it’s usually just images with a voice-over, but they’ve really gone all out on this one. Having this released online will get them more readers for the book(s) than they otherwise would have had, for sure.

@Ken J,

Haha! You should get a prize for comment of the week – “The Stain: A Biography of Bill Clinton” – Classic

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:47:14 +0000

You guys are seriously cracking me up.

Vic

By: Joshi

Joshi — Sun, 31 May 2009 12:34:42 +0000

I don’t got Blu-ray. I just got bog standard DVD’s. This book better come with an audio commentary, that’s all I can say.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:49:49 +0000

Stop complaining Joshi, as long as you have surround sound at home you can always enjoy it when the book comes out on blu-ray…

By: Joshi

Joshi — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:25:18 +0000

Knowing my luck, the book will be released in IMAX… and me without a single IMAX book store in my town.

By: Michael Claymore

Michael Claymore — Sun, 31 May 2009 09:26:40 +0000

So i guess it will be at least eight years before he finally gets round to his H.P Lovecraft movie.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:45:30 +0000

I also think this will be in 3D. So when you flip the page, it’ll be like the page is coming right out at you!!

By: Ken J

Ken J — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:44:33 +0000

I think you are underestimating the amount of CGI the book will have…

By: Joshi

Joshi — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:38:31 +0000

Decent CGI for a book that will likely have very little CGI in it.

(and since people lately have been taking me way too seriously on the internet, yes, that was a joke)

By: Ken J

Ken J — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:13:40 +0000

For some reason everytime I saw this headline until now I kept reading “The Stain” and was like “WTF? I don’t even want to know…”

Thought maybe it was a biography of Bill Clinton or something…

By: Bill Blume

Bill Blume — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:33:04 +0000

Not really the first time I’ve seen this done, a video trailer to promote a book… but it’s definitely got much more to its production than most of the trailers for books I’ve seen. Heck, most of them are little more than a few pictures with a voice-over.

I might give this book a try, but I’m kind of ambivalent about the plot presented. I’m not sure I’m seeing anything all that original in it… yet.

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:10:32 +0000

It depends on the story,
But a trailer for a book is a cool idea.