Harry Dresden, hechicero a sueldo...

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Title: Storm Front

Book: The Dresden Files 01

Author(s): Jim Butcher

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Publisher: Roc

April 2000

For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, business, to put it mildly, stinks. So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name.

Puntaje: 5/5

Próximo libro:

Fool Moon - January 2001

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 La serie de TV:

Flash Gordon (1980)

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Director: Mike Hodges
Screenplay: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Adaptation: Michael Allin
Characters created by: Alex Raymond
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis
Director of photography: Gilbert Taylor   
Original Music by Queen

Cast:
Sam J. Jones- Flash Gordon
Melody Anderson- Dale Arden    
Max von Sydow- The Emperor Ming
Topol- Dr. Hans Zarkov
Ornella Muti- Princess Aura
Timothy Dalton- Prince Barin
Brian Blessed- Prince Vultan
Peter Wyngarde- Klytus
Mariangela Melato- Kala


Sinopsis:

El doctor Zarkov, un científico expulsado de la NASA, viaja en un cohete espacial, junto al joven jugador de rugby Flash Gordon y su amiga Dale Arden. Los tres intentarán salvar al planeta de la amenaza de Ming, el emperador del lejano reino Mongo, que ha lanzado una de sus lunas para que choque contra la Tierra.

Dark City (1998)

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Director: Alex Proyas
Writers: Alex Proyas (story)
Alex Proyas (screenplay)
Lem Dobbs (screenplay)
David S. Goyer (screenplay)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Cast:
Rufus Sewell - John Murdoch
William Hurt - Inspector Frank Bumstead
Kiefer Sutherland - Dr. Daniel P. Schreber
Jennifer Connelly - Emma Murdoch / Anna
Richard O'Brien - Mr. Hand



 Plot Summary:
John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.

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Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec

Director: Luc Besson
Writers: Luc Besson (screenplay), Jacques Tardi (comic books)
Release Date: 14 April 2010 (Belgium)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery

Cast:
Louise Bourgoin - Adèle Blanc-Sec
Mathieu Amalric - Dieuleveult
Gilles Lellouche - Inspecteur Léonce Caponi
Philippe Nahon - Professeur Ménard




 

About the comic:
Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Dry-White) is a Franco-Belgian comics adventure series written and illustrated by French comics artist Jacques Tardi.


Plot synopsis:
The adventures, set in Paris in the years before and after World War I, revolve around the protagonist Adèle Blanc-Sec. A cynical heroine, she is initially a novelist of popular fiction, who turns to investigative journalism as her research and subsequent adventures reveal further details of the mystical world of crime. Themes of the occult, corruption, official incompetence, and the dangers of patriotism  suffuse the series.



Para saber más acerca de Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179025/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Aventures_extraordinaires_d%27Ad%C3%A8le_Blanc-Sec

Ginger snaps!!!

Ginger Snaps (2000)

Director: John Fawcett
Writers: Karen Walton, John Fawcett
Release Date: 11 May 2001 (Canada)
Genre: Drama - Horror


Cast:
Emily Perkins - Brigitte
Katharine Isabelle - Ginger
Kris Lemche -  Sam
Mimi Rogers - Pamela



Synopsis:
Is becoming a woman analogous, in some deep psychological way, to becoming a werewolf? Ginger is 16, edgy, tough, and, with her younger sister, into staging and photographing scenes of death. They've made a pact about dying together. In early October, on the night she has her first period, which is also the night of a full moon, a werewolf bites Ginger. Within a few days, some serious changes happen to her body and her temperament. Her sister Brigitte, 15, tries to find a cure with the help of Sam, a local doper. As Brigitte races against the clock, Halloween and another full moon approach, Ginger gets scarier, and it isn't just local dogs that begin to die.

Summary from IMDB

Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters

The Era of Vampires (2002)

Director: Wellson Chin
Writer: Hark Tsui
Genre: Horror- Action

Cast:
Ken Chang
Michael Chow Man-Kin
Suet Lam
Kwok-Kwan Chan
Anya
Rongguang Yu
Horace Lee Wai Shing
Chun Hua Ji

Synopsis:
In 17th century rural China during the Ching dynasty, when a dead body isn't resting in peace, chemical and physical changes can build up, allowing it to leave the grave in the form of a zombie, feeding on the flesh of humans. Over time, the zombie will turn into a vampire. If you are bitten or scratched by a zombie, you can recover. But if you are bitten or scratched by a vampire, you will become a vampire. Only a handful of skilled warriors dared to challenge these mystical demons of the night. This is their story.

Full synopsis:
IMBD

Rescate en el Barrio Chino

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Director:
John Carpenter

Cast:
Kurt Russell
Kim Cattrall
Victor Wong

Synopsis:
Jack Burton, a tough-talking, wisecracking truck driver whose hum-drum life on the road takes a sudden supernatural tailspin when his best friend's fiancee is kidnapped. Speeding to the rescue, Jack finds himself deep beneath San Francisco's Chinatown, in a murky, creature-filled world ruled by Lo Pan, a 2000-year-old magician who mercilessly presides over an empire of spirits. Dodging demons and facing baffling terrors, Jack battles his way through Lo Pan's dark domain in a full-throttle, action-riddled ride to rescue the girl. 

Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}



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Aullidos

The Howling (1981)

From Gary Brandner´s novel

Director:
Joe Dante

Cast:
Dee Wallace
Patrick Macnee
Dennis Dugan




Synopsis:
There is a serial killer on the loose, Karen White (Dee Wallace) is the only reporter he communicates with. After a near fatal encounter with him at an adult video store, she is ordered to take a vacation. Eddie was killed by Police, but Karen doesn't want to let it go and discovers that he came from a tiny community in the woods and that's where she decides to vacation with husband Bill. Big mistake, because Eddie was an outcast of a pack of Werewolves who is trying to keep a low profile and doesn't want any interviews. Can Karen and Bill escape the village of the wolf? 

Written by Chris.
IMBD

Wolfhound, fantasía épica desde Rusia.

Volkodav iz roda Serykh Psov (2007)

From Mariya Semyonova´s novel 


Director:
Nikolay Lebedev

Cast:
Aleksandr Bukharov
Oksana Akinshina



Synopsis:
He was doomed to die, but managed to survive, and now his mission is to revenge for the annihilation of his tribe. He is the great warrior who calls himself Volkodav, and is the last man from the tribe of Grey Hounds. After escaping certain death, Volkodaw (accompanied by Neletuchaya Mysh) is on a mission to kill Ludoed who is responsible to what happened to his tribe. 

Written by Pavel P.

Para saber más acerca de esta película:
Russia blog

Que no se entere mamá!!!

The Lost Boys (1987)

Director:
Joel Schumacher

Cast:
Jason Patric
Corey Haim
Kiefer Sutherland
Corey Feldman

 

Synopsis:
Financial troubles force a recent divorcee and her teenage sons Mike and Sam to settle down with her father in the California town of Santa Carla. At first, Sam laughs off rumours he hears about vampires who inhabit the small town. But after Mike meets a beautiful girl at the local amusement park, he begins to exhibit the classic signs of vampirism. Fearing for his own safety, Sam recruits two young vampire hunters to save his brother by finding and destroying the head vampire.  

Written by Kevin Ackley
IMBD

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters es una versión extendida del texto original de Jane Austen con nuevas escenas de cangrejos gigantes, pulpos descontrolados, serpientes de dos cabezas y otras monstruosidades biológicas. Nuestra historia comienza cuando las hermanas Dashwood son desterradas de su casa de la infancia y enviadas a vivir a una isla misteriosa poblada de criaturas salvajes y oscuros secretos. Mientras la sensata Elinor se enamora de Edgard Ferrars, su romántica hermana Marianne es cortejada por el apuesto Willoughby y el monstruoso Coronel Brandon. ¿Podrán las hermanas Dashwood triunfar sobre las entrometidas matriarcas e inescrupulosos bribones para encontrar el amor verdadero? ¿O caerán presas de los tentáculos que están siempre al acecho?

This masterful portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austen´s biting social commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters biting. It´s survival of the fittest-and only the swiftest swimmers will find tue love!