The Strain

Posted by ForSaKeN on June 27, 2017
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FX is producing an adaptation of “The Strain” – a 2009 vampire horror novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. It is part of a trilogy that was later followed by 2 more novels toocool so there`s plenty of room for more seasons to come. They are currently on season 4
The series is name – you guessed it!!! – “The Strain” and part of the series success is assured by the fact that Guillermo del Toro is a co-writter for all the episode scrips.The_Strain_2014_Intertitle

The main idea of the series is that of a vampiric epidemic in modern day New York. We have the old and the new magnificently intertwined as the main character, dr. Ephraim Goodweather attempts to scientifically explain the phenomenon when professor Abraham van Helsing [u, sry! 😛 ] Setrakian enters the stage and explains the century known facts about the strigoi and their Master. In essence almost all of the established powers and weaknesses of the vampires are kept in the description, however there`s a certain scientific spin given.
The vampire is presented more as a parasite. The vector for vampirism is a capillary worm, which, once introduced into the human host’s bloodstream introduces an incurable and fast-acting virus. By manipulating the host’s genes, the virus causes a human to undergo numerous, radical physical changes. It kills the host then feeds on it until it turns it into a perfect shell. Once full turned it proceeds to reproducing by infecting other people.
In the movie a great deal of emphasis it put on the idea that the dead return to feed on the people they loved most.

Actors:
Corey Stoll – Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the CDC Canary Team in New York City.
David Bradley – Professor Abraham Setrakian, a Holocaust survivor turned New York pawn-shop owner. [Jim Watson portrays the young Setrakian in flashbacks]
Mía Maestro – Dr. Nora Martinez, a caring biochemist

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Screen Adaptations – Queen of the Damned

Posted by ForSaKeN on June 26, 2017
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Although the title of the movie implies that it is based on the third novel of the series – “The Queen of the damned”by Anne Rice, published in 1988, the script also in globes parts from its predecessor – “The vampire Lestat” – published in 1985.
In the very year that the novel was published Warner Bros. acquired the screening rights when they took over Lorimar Productions.
After 1994, when confronted with the huge success „Interview with a vampire” had, Neil Jordan tried to start a project for the sequels, but he failed to mobilize all the actors he wanted and decided to abandon it.
Pressed by the fact that they were going to lose the rights in 2000 to Anne Rice, in 1998 Warner started to work on the script for a new vampire movie. Because ”The vampire Lestat” was labeled as too “episodic” to be screened so it was decided that the movie was to be based on the third masterpiece of the vampire chronicles.
This was a disappointment both to the author and to the fans that had to wait almost 10 years for another movie based on Anne Rices novels. As a result the author didn`t take as much of a part in this project and the script bares the print of Scott Abbott and Michael Petroni.
None of the actors from ”Interview with a vampire” rejoined the cast, although Tom Cruise considered it. The Australian Michael Rymer took on the directing chair.
The first to confirm her appearance was singer Aaliyah who played queen Akasha.
The casting for the role of Lestat took longer, among those proposed including Wes Bentley, Josh Hartnett and Heath Ledger. In 2000 Stuart Townsend accepted the part and got the blessing of Anne Rice.
[a fun fact: Stuart Townsend is the name of a character from Rices other series “The Mayfait Witches”]

When the movie was launched in 2002 the critics weren`t too impressed… and neither were the fans of Rice`s vampires! It received only 3 nominations and didn`t manage to win any awards.
Most complained that the script had holes and failed to fusion the two novels; although the awakening of Lestat and his choosing to make a career in Rock music were used – and his life was presented as short episodes read by Jesse in his journal, many considered it a mistake to focus on Lestat in a movie that bares the name of Akasha.
Even more so, the tale of the queen and of the two witch-twins was omitted. Only Maharet was portrayed in the movie despite the fact that in the novel Akasha is killed by Mekare!

Other differences:
1. When Marius notices that Akasha awoke and killed her king, he is attacked by her but speared because she is attached to him for all the centuries he looked after her. In the movie, this battle isn`t shown, nor is the fact that he was imprisoned in ice to keep him from letting the Ancient know she had wondered off. [Marius is saved by Pandora and Santino]
2. Lestat is confused as to Akasha`s vision of “the new world” when he sees how his queen manipulates the women to rebel against their men, but in the movie he is convinced to help kill Akasha when he drinks Jesse`s blood and sees the arguments of the Ancient.
3. Jesse is turned by Lestat – but in the book she is already a vampire at the time of the confrontation [she was the first vampire sired by Maharet].
4. In the novel, Akasha is beheaded and her heart and brain are consumed by Mekare [that is where the twins knew the soul and consciousness reside] thus becoming Amel`s new partner and the new queen of the damned. In the movie, Maharet drinks the last drop of blood from Akasha`s body and turns into a statue [Marius states that she is “sleeping” – that she is in the same state that Akasha and Enkil were when he watched over them].

Actors in the final version:
* Aaliyah – Queen Akasha
* Stuart Townsend – Lestat
* Marguerite Moreau – Jesse
* Vincent Perez – Marius
* Paul McGann – David Talbot
* Lena Olin – Maharet
* Christian Manon – Mael
* Claudia Black – Pandora
* Bruce Spence – Khayman
* Matthew Newton – Armand

At the moment of its release, on 22 Feb. 2002 [in the US] almost 6 months had passed since the death of the young Aaliyah [she was returning from a video shoot]. Her brother Rashad Haughton was asked to help with dubbing her voice in certain scenes.
The concert scenes are set in Death Valley, California, but were actually filmed in Werribee, Australia and over 3000 “Goths” were recruited via internet for the shooting.
The singing voice of Lestat was supplied by Jonathan Davis of Korn. However due to contractual difficulties, Davis could not sing on the soundtrack album release although he was allowed to play a couple of instruments for the pieces. The five songs written by he and Richard Gibbs for the movie were then performed on the album by Marilyn Manson, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, David Draiman of Disturbed,Wayne Static of Static-X and Jay Gordon of Orgy. He also had a cameo as a ticket scalper trying to peddle tickets outside the concert.
The architecture of Aunt Maharet’s house is based upon Angkor Wat, the stone temple located in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Note: As the movie rights have recently been returned to the author, Anne Rice has announced that she will be producing a TV series based on her series of novels.

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Philip Onyancha

Posted by ForSaKeN on June 24, 2017
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Name: Philip Onyancha
Born – 1978/ Died – ****
Number of victims: 19

Some people suffer from delusions and believe that they are vampires, however this is not the case for Philip Onyancha.
According to his testimony, he was recruited into a cult that convinced him of the prospect of wealth and power in exchange for human sacrifice – he would need to also drink the blood of his victims. He never raped the women, only bit down on their necks and drank their blood.
When he was caught the degree of public hysteria and outrage was so aggravated that the crowd wanted to lynch him.

“It is an urge you develop once you are initiated, and since I got into this thing, I have always had a passion to kill. My target was 100 people… once I achieved that I could have been very rich. It is that power of conviction in me, but all that is now gone because I have confessed”

To make matters worse he admitted during interrogations that he deliberately targeted women and children under the age of 10 because they were weaker and he calculated that in a maximum of 5 years he would be done with that stage in the cult and ascent to power.
After his arrest he cooperated fully and led the police to his dumping site [he admitted to 17 deaths, however the skeletons retrieved totaled up to 19 bodies]. Based on the bones and personal belongings recovered from the site, the victims could be identified and given proper burials by their families.
During the trial he said he was grateful to the police for apprehending him because it was the only way to quiet the evil spirits that haunted him. He basically said that he wouldn`t have been able to stop on his own.
In the end Philip Onyancha gave up his own freedom by confessing to his crimes. Kenya was shocked into reality over the possibility of cults and the ocult still perverting their systems of beliefs.

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Jan O.

Posted by ForSaKeN on June 23, 2017
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Name: Jan O.
[Last names are withheld in accordance with German privacy laws]
Born – 1985 / Died – ****
Number of victims: 2

Also known as “the cannibal killer”, Jan O. of Germany confessed to eating the flesh and drinking the blood of his victims.
In November 2010 he lured 14 year old Nina B. into the woods with the intent to rape her, however when he struck first blood he couldn`t control himself anymore and turned to consuming her flesh.
Almost a week later, 13 year old Tobias L. also fell prey to this monster because he was mistaken for a girl [he had long hair]. The boy is reported to have been sexually assaulted before being stabbed to death.
Both youngsters were strangled, stabbed with a knife and cut with a beer bottle.
In his confession, he wrote, “I did not want sex anymore, only flesh and blood…I am addicted to the taste.”
In June 2011 Jan O. was sentenced to life in a psychiatric institution.

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Matthew Hardman

Posted by ForSaKeN on June 22, 2017
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Name: Matthew Hardman
Born – 1984 / Died – ****
Number of victims: 1

The desire to become to identify with a vampire can lead some people to commit incredible deeds. Matthew Hardman is such a case: he wanted to become a vampire and as an initiation he came up with a bizarre “vampire ritual”.
At the tender age of 17, Matt smeared his hands with plenty of blood when he stabbed to death [22 times] 90 year old Mabel Leyshon. He didn`t stop there tho`; he removed her heart and drank her blood in his fascination for vampires and obsession with immortality.
The event took place in 2001 and he has since been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and he has never admitted his guilt or shown any sign of remorse.
He was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 12 years. Since then he has lost the right to appeal.

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Alleged vampire attackers

Posted by ForSaKeN on February 17, 2017
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Vampires don`t always kill their victims [at least these modern ones] so I decided to add a couple of vampiric attackers to the crime list. They are not as “impressive” as the serial killers, however they should be mentioned because they acted in more recent times and the phenomenon seams to be repeating more frequently and all over the world.
Needless to say we will be dealing with people that bit around the neck or other blood arteries. Some of those that are to be listed even claimed to their victims that they are vampires.

1. Stephanie Pistey [18 when she was accused]

While being accused of the murder of a 16 year old boy, Stephanie gave an interview to a local newspaper in July 2011 and claimed that she was a vampire and that she had drank the blood of her 25 year old fiancé. She declared: “Since I was like, 12…I know this is going to be crazy, but I believe that I’m a vampire. Part of a vampire and part of a werewolf.”

2. Emi Coleman [30 when committed the crime]

On November 17, 2011 young Emi decided to go looking for some snacks at a local store. But for her, the snacks weren`t your average chips and chocolates. The camera at the store reveals that she took a nice juicy bite out of 2 of the customers neck areas and then drove off in a black car.
She was caught after a media appeal in the Denver area.

3. Mauricio Lopez

In August, 2010, Mauricio Mendez Lopez allegedly killed his brother-in-law Macario Cruz, with whom his niece was having an affair. Lopez stabbed Cruz in the heart and liver, then drank his blood out of a plastic cup as his niece and her four children watched.
Lopez claimed that according to Mexican folklore, drinking a victim’s blood helps the killer evade arrest.

4. Evan Francis Brown

Evan Francis Brown [20] told Alabama police that he is a vampire and a Satanist after being arrested for burning a “V” into the forehead of a 17 year old boy in December 2010.
Police say Brown tied up the victim, beat him and burned him with cigarettes, then used a hot fork or spoon to brand his face.

5. Jeffrey “Draven” Mitchell

In 2008, a man who told U.S. Marshals he is a 225-year-old vampire was arrested in Virginia Beach on charges of sexually assaulting a 4 year old in Jacksonville [Florida], as well as two other young girls.
Police say Jeffrey Mitchell [30] who called himself “Draven”, always wore black clothes and capes, and placed caps over his teeth to make them look like vampire fangs.

6. Matthew Lovrine

He was charged with multiple sex crimes, including two counts of sexual assault, in December, 2010, after one of his victims told her mother about a sexual relationship they had started when she was 15.
The girl reported that she began dating Lovrine [then 17] in 2009, while he was already dating a 17 year old girl. The three became involved in a polygamist relationship.
Lovrine allegedly told the girls that he is a vampire and will cut them and drink their blood. Hehad punched them and cut them with a knife on several occasions.
Police say Lovrine also bragged about cutting his victims with razor blades and drinking their blood before his arrest.

7. Lyle Monroe Bensley

On August 13, 2011, 19-year-old Lyle Monroe Bensley forced his way into a woman’s apartment and began to hit and bite her while making growling sounds.
The victim managed to escape and get into a neighbor’s car.
After a short pursuit, cops arrested Bensley, who reportedly told them, “I’m a vampire, and I’ve been alive for over 500 years,” and that he just “needed to feed.”
His lawyer later claimed that he was high.

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Josephine Smith

Posted by ForSaKeN on February 16, 2017
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josephine-smithName: Josephine Smith
Born – 1989 / Died – ****
Number of victims: 1
As for a more recent attack, Josephine Smith was charged with felony aggravated battery on an elderly person back in September 2011 when she was only 22.

You might ask yourself what does this attack have to do with a vampiric murder, however I want to emphasize today on the type of people who believe they are vampires and go out looking for blood.
Before she assaulted the 68 year old homeless man she had befriended at a strip mall, she told him: “I am a vampire and I`m going to eat you”.
And try she did, biting him on the face and arms. According to the affidavit of her arrest she successfully removed the first lair of skin on his arms and caused other wounds to his face.
The man managed to escape her and dialed 911 from a nearby gas station.
He was later taken to the hospital because he required stitches.

When the police interrogated her, Josephine Smith claimed she didn`t remember what happened.

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John Brennan Crutchley

Posted by ForSaKeN on February 15, 2017
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jcrutchleyName: John Brennan Crutchley aka “The Vampire Rapist”
Born – 1946 / Died – 2002
Number of victims: Between 1 and 30+

As a child, John was reclusive and had almost no social life.
He would spend his days in the basement working on small electronics. His level of intelligence enabled him to obtain a degree in physics and start developing a career in engineering.
His personal life as an adult was seemingly normal: he married twice [first in 1969 and the second time in the mid-1970s], he moved around the states depending on where his work projects took him.

However all was not as it appeared! Under the mask of John Brennan Crutchley there was another – morbid and blood thirsty: The Vampire Rapist!
He drained the blood of his victims to the point of near death while asphyxiating and repeatedly sexually assaulting the women.
Despite not being tried and convicted for murder, he was suspected of more than 30 homicides!

What made it possible for the police and FBI to catch him was a non-fatal kidnapping and sexual assault. On a late November night in 1985 a trucker detected someone crawling on the side of the road. Upon closer inspection he realized that it was a nude teenager in an advanced state of shock. She had been handcuffed at both feet and ankles and was unable to communicate any information; she kept asking not to be taken back “to that house”.
The man called both police and an ambulance thus setting in motion the events that led to the arrest of the vampire rapist. Her name was Laura Murphy and she was only 19! All she wanted was to buy a pack of cigs when she was kidnapped.
At the hospital it became apparent that she was missing 40 to 45% of her blood quantity. When she was able to offer more information it was enough to make officers solicit a search warrant on John Crutchley`s house.

The hitchhiker awoke to find that she was tied to a kitchen countertop, arms and legs immobilized. A video camera had been set up, along with lights. The man raped her and videotaped the action. Then he inserted needles into her arm and wrist and carefully extracted blood and began to drink it, telling her that he was a vampire. After that, he handcuffed her and put her in the bathtub, returning later for another round of sexual assault and blood extraction. The next morning, after a third round, the man handcuffed the hitchhiker and left her in the bathroom, saying that he would be back later for further assaults, and that if she tried to escape in the interim, his brother would come and kill her. It was after the attacker had left the house that she was able to push out of the bathroom window and crawl to the road. Had she not escaped then, doctors believed, she might well have died from a further round of blood extraction.

[via Wikipedia, extract from Ressler, Robert and Tom Schactman – “Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Hunting Serial Killers for the FBI”]

Laura was adamant that her rape was videotaped, unfortunately the tape was partially erased and the police only took notes of certain items before being forced to leave. By the time they were able to take another warrant Crutchley had the time to dispose of the incriminating items: a stack of credit cards several inches thick, cats and dogs tags [he didn`t have any pets], a collection of women’s necklaces [separated from the jewelry of his wife and hidden in a closet].
The FBI was brought in by the local authorities and the second warrant was a lot wider than the initial one. It prompted: a jar full of human hair, a stack of 72 3×5 cards on which Crutchley had recorded women’s names and described their sexual performances
Some of the women confirmed that Crutchley had crossed the limits of consensual S&M and that he had a fetish for asphyxiation. [Note: the wife did not consider him to be over the top and commented to reporters on the rape of Laura Murphy that it was “a gentle rape, devoid of any overt brutality.”]
During interrogations he initially claimed that Laura came over willingly and that she was willing to have a good time while his wife and child were away for the Thanksgiving Weekend.
Apparently the Vampire Rapist was introduced to the drinking of blood in the early part of 1970 by a nurse as part of a sexual experience / ritual.

200px-John_CrutchleyIn June 1986, Crutchley pleaded guilty on kidnapping and rape charges and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison with 50 years of subsequent parole.
He was released on the 8th of August 1996 yet was rearrested the very next day because he has on pot and violated his parole. Because it was his third strike he was convicted to life in prison.
Crutchley died in prison in 2002 with a plastic bag over his head in what was later confirmed to be autoerotic asphyxiation.

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Wayne Boden

Posted by ForSaKeN on February 14, 2017
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Name: Wayne Clifford Boden
Born – 1948 / Died – 2006
Number of victims: 4
Also known as “The Vampire Rapist”, Wayne Boden was brought to justice due to his specific signature – he would bite the breasts of the women he raped and the strangled to death.
He developed a fascination for breasts that took him well over the line of sadism. In time, he discovered that tasting blood directly from the breast gave him such a power rush that he craved nothing more.
He would essentially tare the flesh off his victims.

Full list of victims:
– Shirley Audette, 21, killed on 3 October 1969
– Marielle Archambault, 20, killed on 23 November 1969
– Jean Way, 24, killed on 16 January 1970
– Elizabeth Anne Porteous, 33, killed on 18 May 1971

As the number of girls started to instill panic in Canada, the police had more and more clue to help them find “Bill” – the name he used when he was dating some of the victims. They even knew the exact type of car he had [blue Mercedes distinctive advertising bull-shaped decal in the rear window] and a very good portrait of him.

Doctors searched to explain his actions with different syndromes over the years – ranging from Renfield Syndrome to Schizophrenia. Some have even gone so far as to claim that he might have suffered in infancy due to his mother not breastfeeding him up to a certain age.
While classified by all as a sadist, it was never uncovered if the women he picked up were initially willing participants in his violent sexual fantasies.
boden-003The first victim casts a shadow of a doubt and it is possible that she was killed by accident, triggering in the young Wayne the desire to finish sex with a murder.
Her body had been sexually assaulted, her neck almost broken by strangulation and teeth marks covered her breasts. Traces of blood were found from the vicious ripping at her nipples. In the apartment, police found that there were no signs of struggle, suggesting she had known her assailant and had willingly allowed him to visit her the night she died. What the medical pathologist found odd was that she had died with a submissive soft smile on her face.
When people engage in sadomasochistic sex, they sometimes specifically want to be superficially strangled to reach a “perfect orgasm” so it is possible that she was so enthralled with the violent sexual encounter that she didn`t think to put up a fight.

What is clear is that Wayne was able to get into the homes of his other victims without raising suspicions and neighbors assumed that the noises they heard in those specific nights were those of consensual sex. This allowed him to escape police for the first 2 murders and move to another city. By this time Canada was already calling the breast mutilator “The Vampire Rapist”.
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He was eventually arrested and convicted based on forensic odontological evidence. It was the first such case.
Boden finally admitted that he had killed these women while having rough sex. He would strangle them and then become frenzied with the need to feast on their breasts.
As a twist, in 1977 he had a 36 hours pass when he obtained a credit card and escaped prison. He was later apprehended while having lunch at a restaurant.
NOTE: Forensic odontologists can match the bite mark impressions on a body against the teeth of a suspect to decide if there’s a match.
NOTE 2: He was also presumed to be guilty of the murder of Norma Vaillancourt, however he never admitted to this and another man eventually confessed to her rape and murder.

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