Darkness covers the first teaser trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s The Strain

January 21, 2014.Reading time 1 minute.

We now finally have our very first teaser trailer for the highly anticipated vampire series The Strain, from Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. It’s nice to finally catch a glimpse of the show despite the fact that it’s only a teaser. The source material is extremely dark which is exactly what this teaser points […]

Is this creepy viral footage a nod towards Guillermo del Toro’s The Strain series?

December 2, 2013.Reading time 2 minutes.

If you watched last night’s ridiculous mid-season finale of The Walking Dead, then there’s a good chance you witnessed a creepy commercial that AMC ran during the show. It was odd bit of found-footage featuring a swarm of rats gathering around a sewer drain and running through a government building, and it turns out that […]

John Hurt to play Abraham Setrakian in The Strain

June 17, 2013.Reading time 1 minute.

FX’s adaptation of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s horror novel The Strain has just added John Hurt to co-lead opposite Corey Stoll and Mia Maestro in the network’s high-profile drama pilot, reports Deadline. Hurt is the final piece to the puzzle for the show as he’ll portray Professor Abraham Setrakian, a holocaust survivor who immigrated to […]

TV adaptation of Guillermo del Toro's The Strain finds leading man

April 25, 2013.Reading time 1 minute.

We haven’t really heard a whole lot from FX’s adaptation of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s vampire tale The Strain but it looks like things are starting to pick up as Deadline reports that Corey Stoll (below) has landed a leading role in the series. Carlton Cuse of Bates Motel is acting as showrunner on the pilot […]