'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' Teaser

I wasn't sure about this at first because it's a black screen with a hissy voice talking about the dark and then a whole bunch of images of a mansion and people screaming, etc. When I saw Guillermo del Toro's name, however, I immediately perked up. I also perked up during the next scene when the little girl is crawling under the sheets, knowing what would be coming, and yet I still jumped when the thing jumped at her.

Also, Guy Pearce is in it.

'Leviathan' Book Trailer

Are you saying, "What's a book trailer?" Well, it's a wonderful little tool that publishers are beginning to use to get their books out there to the public.

I saw the ones for Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's "The Strain" and I was convinced to get the book (plus, it had del Toro's name attached so I would have bought it anyway). This time it's for Scott Westerfield's "Leviathan" and it looks awesome!

Set in 1914 and Archduke Franz Ferdinand has been assassinated and Europe is just about to go to war. But this is a different timeline, an alternate history filled with two warring sides: The Clankers who use machinery to do their bidding and Darwinists who evolve living creatures to do their bidding. At the center of it all there is Alec who is running from those who killed his father (the Archduke) and Darrin Sharpe (not sure if that's the name...it was hard to tell what the name really is) who is a girl living as a boy who wants to serve in the Royal Air Navy. They are on opposing sides and one is hiding a secret.

I love Steampunk and Sci-Fi, so I'm all over this book. As long as it isn't written for too young an audience.

Is Guillermo Del Toro's The Strain coming to the small screen?

There is word out there that 'The Strain' may be heading to our small screens in the future. After FOX passed on the pitch and del Toro partnered up with Chuch Hogan to create a trilogy of books (the first of which is out now and definitely worth the buy), now it looks like Hogan and del Toro may be working with a production company to bring it to the television as a three season season. I likey!

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Here are some creepy-ass little trailers: