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The thing I really like about the strain is how it portrays vampires as really disgusting monsters not a bunch of guys in their 20s wearing leather jackets

I love how the designs of these vampires are heavily based on the appearance of Nosferatu/Count Orlock, the first Dracula in cinema. Also, this quote by Orlock perfectly represents the disturbing nature of the creatures of the Strain: "Death is a horrible thing. But there are things even more horrible than death..."

I like how it really leans into the 'parasite', 'master of vermin', and 'disease' symbolism with vampires.

The reason for the Seal of Haagenti being on the Occido Lumen has to do with the Kabalistic tradition of "True Name" magic associated with King Solomon, who was said to have used magic to take command of Demons and spirits to do his bidding. Demons and Angels are effectively the same kind of entity, but split along ideological lines ( The War of Heaven ). The power of "True Names" goes back to the biblical story of Genesis. In Genisis, humans could speak the Holy Tongue ( something that was taken from them after the fall of the Tower of Babel, resulting in all the different languages humanity ends up speaking ). Speaking the True Name of a spiritual being in the Holy Tongue allowed Solomon to manipulate them according to his will. This is also why in the 10 Commandments it's written not to take the name of God ( also called the Tetragramaton ) in vein, because it invokes him. SOOOO, with the vampires being composed the parts of Ozryel, they are technically Angelic / Demonic in nature and subject to the same Kabalistic / Solomonic magics as demons from the Key of Solomon.

The books were great. The TV show did a good job at adapting it, but the books were really cool.

The most underrated vampire show ever. Great vid man!

Hey! Biology student here, fun fact about Loam is that it is a soil classification that is about 40% sand, 40% silt, and 20% clay and contains large amounts of organic material. It is also the ideal soil texture for growing crops. This plays into the idea that The Loam used by the master is most likely the soil where Ozryels throat was and the soil The Master grew from since The Loam would have had large amounts of organic material “Ozryels throat”, and was perfect for growing a crop “The Master”. Just kind of a neat fact I thought would be interesting to share

I like the fact that vampire strain vector is worms. This reminds me of a favourite D&D monster: Child of Kyuss, which is an undead animated by little green worms.

The Strain is one of my favorite vampire series of all times. The look of the Master from Season 1 was so bad ass it is ridiculous. Definitely would like to see a video on Cronos!

You should really do Bram Stoker's Dracula, great movie with some great lore.

This series was so creepy I still need to finish watching it. Loved this video ❤

Loved the Strain. Such a good take on vampires. Love that they made them so detestable, but still tempting to the right people.

While I'm not able to watch at the moment, I will leave a like for covering more of my favorite vampire series!

Vampire/zombie/hive mind monsters is always so cool.

My favorite was in “The Dresden Files” where the black court vampires are basically dehydrated walking corpses bones cracking when they move cause the fluids in their joints was long gone skin blackened by death and pulled back tight on the face cause it’s dried and begin to peel back

I felt the last season was rushed but it’s definitely a one of a kind and worth another watch.

This series was very creative. 😮

Bro your channel is so underrated, I appreciate you making this kinda stuff for ppl like us. I didn’t even know I liked these kinda til I watched yours, keep grinding fam you’re doing your thang fasho.

Great video as always. I would love to see you cover The Last Voyage Of The Demeter, it's an interesting take on Dracula and Stoker's story.

The Strain is one of my favorite book trilogies and I love most of the show. I have a lot of gripes with how they handled some characters, namely Nora, because after Fet, she is my favorite. So I was really upset by that. First season though, gold. Absolute gold. Del Toro really does have a wonderful way of creating lore and backstories that could fit so easily into our world, and I love it. I'm sad the religious/divine aspects of the whole thing was pushed to the side by the end of the tv series, I still love it and I still rewatch it frequently. This was a wonderful deep dive!

Wait wait wait wait wait wait so the end of the story sort it means that humans were really unimportant, and he was only punished because he drink his brother angels blood ? So we humans were just used as ponds in order to teach the angel of a lesson? Bro we less than cannon fodder!

I am officially hooked on this channel. Thank you for your hard work!

never watched seasons 3 and 4. I completely forgot about this show. I wasn't too crazy for the main character.

I enjoyed the ad from the sponsor! Well done. Loved the video! I love The Strain and all your videos. :D

I’ve been waiting for this one! Thanks for finally covering one of my favorite vampire series.

Your channel is among my comfort places on KZfaq as a horror & (folk)lore fan! I’d love a mini-series on the lore behind del Toro’s other creatures (if possible). Especially for 2011’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark where he was a producer I think.

12:59 he’s actually in 5 bodies not 4. Between the singer and the Stoneheart tycoon he hides in one of the soldiers he turned.

Thanks for the longer videos, I do enjoy the narration brother🤙🏽

Just gotta say: Love the short, creepy music in every intro. Perfectly sets the ambience

i've watched a couple of your videos. subscribing. why? you do good research, great subject of horror, you don't trail off a long last word of your sentences, and you you don't start of with the first couple of words LOUD then trailing the rest until your slow and quiet. THANKYOU! for not being one of those annoying "schticks". Vampires are awesome! :) looking forwards to more videos.

oh my days,the strain was a brilliant show imo,this is literally the 2nd of your content i clicked on and KNOW i wont be disappointed! respect 💯💥💥

I would love to see a prequel series which depicts the rise of Ozriel during the fall of Soddom & Gomorrah!

The Strain is a pretty good series. Thanks for doing a video about the ancients.

Hell yeah more Strain content!

Cogan I love these 😩. I always look forward to a new upload, I love the supernatural especially vampires. If you scroll through your channel on my phone all of them says watched 😂 LITERALLY.

Maybe a long shot, but I would love for you to cover the Vampires from the book series Necroscope. They were optioned for films not long ago so you might get ahead of the curve, but also I just really enjoy them and wish they got more recognition.

After watching 75% of your channel in a little under a week it’s nice to see you back

I praise you for this video. I'd like to donate to you and suggest a video on Mr. Quinlan, my favorite vampire hero since Marvel's Blade and Angel from Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

I just found your channel and it's an instant subscribe! Keep it up 😊.

I like the background of having biblical origins from the body of a fallen angel generated first vampires but liked the science approach in the physiology of vampires being result of parasitic worms transmitting a virus to create new organism in book one before the rest of the trilogy exposes the supernatural origins

The end of the book(s) is amazing. Parts of it literally feel like lost pages out of the book of Revelation.

I loved this post! I too read the series of books and watched the Tv series. I'm waiting for Netflix to get it. The reason the demons were in the Occio Lumen was because the enemy is to be acknowledged and studied so it can be recognized should it present itself. A good old case of "Know thy enemy" in my opinion. Thanks for the food for thought. I enjoy these posts, take care.

ANOTHER EXCELLENT VIDEO MY FRIEND! THANK YOU FOR THE WORK AND PRIDE YOU OBVIOUSLY DO AND HAVE WHEN MAKING THESE VIDS!. ONE CAN TELL THAT YOU ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT THE SUBJECT MATTER, AS IT SHOWS THROUGHOUT THE POST. I LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT ONE!! AND ON THAT NOTE, MIGHT I OFFER YOU A SUGGESTION OR TWO? YOU SHOULD LOOK UP THE RUSSIAN HORROR/FANTASY MOVIES "DAY WATCH" & "NIGHT WATCH ", BOTH HAVE AGENCIES OF LIGHT AND DARK HOLDING EACH OTHER IN CHECK AND KEEPING THE BALANCE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. THERE ARE GOOD / BAD VAMPIRES, WITCHES, MONSTERS, WEREWOLVES, FAERIES, ETC. A GREAT 2 MOVIES,.... there was supposed to be a third that was in a wrap them all up and be the ending but it never got made and last I checked there wasn't anything about it happening so that's extremely sad. In the last movie you should check out his got Ron Perlman in it it's from the early 90s it's called the Mutant Chronicles. It's a slightly futuristic yet kind of Steampunk post-apocalyptic world where companies own armies and instead of countries fighting Wars companies fight Wars and pay their soldiers instead of jobs we are professional Soldier and that's your day job anyway there's an ancient machine that's been buried like thousands thousands of years before and the devil supposedly made it and it turns people into these vampire like demon conglomerations anyway two companies are fighting and they end up having a battle over this thing steel to the door door and they end up breaking the seal and these things get out and yeah you need to see the movie it's freaking sick! it it's a cult classic in my opinion, people know about it but it didn't really get like a huge release, and ended up going to DVD very quickly and that was the end of that. But I own it I love it and anybody who have ever shown it to has loved it but check it out like I said it's got Ron Perlman in it for that reason alone you should watch it! LOL

One of my favorite book series, the tv series was also really well done. It strayed from the books a lot, but was still very good I’ve binged it a few times since it’s ending.

Theres another comic with a lot of similarities (at least in the first few volumes I read of it) to the strain. It's called impaler written by William Harms, check it out if you wanna. It's basically Dracula vs. Vamps so maybe to describe it a blend of hellsing and the strain? I was always interested in why both Impaler and the strain share so many similarities

Maybe the reason the demon's seal is in the book is because the knowledge, or some of it, in the book was given by a demon as a way to get rid of the angel/vampire on earth so that the demons wouldn't have any competition on earth. Idk just a guess but the vamps and demons probably both territorial or something

Dog damn! How long i was waiting for it! My friend, you have found my space of interest!

i love this tv show

Such an amazing series, time to rewatch it for a 3rd time, its been a few years, hype is back

I think about Kelly killing the feeler, it may have partially been because maybe they could see and it wasn't complete, but I also thought that it could have to do with the reverse, "save the cat, ".. They didn't want the audience to sympathize or think too fondly of that character

I do love this portrayal of vampires. Similar in appearance to old school Easter European strigoi/vampyre/nosferatu/revenants.

Great video. Have you done one on the vsmpires of the the passage yet? Such an underrated show. Wish it got more than 1 season

Guillermo created a Wonderful Story here. & *_You_* made a great presentation of this topic.

This show was so fascinating. I wish they would make another one.

Fantastic video about the ancient Strigoi. Just noticed I've been a member for exactly 6 months today.

The master technically is seen inhabiting 6 bodies in the show, if you count the Roman era body and the navy seal he briefly inhabited between Bolivar and Palmer.

I really liked this show, and always wondered about the backstory of the ancients. It would’ve been nice for them to explain it in the show itself.

i think this is my favorite horror series of all time...im about due to go back and rewatch it....

time to rewatch this series, i really loved it for several reasons with all its flaws

Great breakdown. Thank you!

So pumped to see another strain video , I feel like people are finally seeing how scary the vampires were in this show, i always said it would be a shame to never revisit them. The casting was really good in this show too, there was a diverse cast without one moment it feeling like a box was being checked or for woke points, everyone was cast perfectly even if they were only in the show for 5 minutes, I don't know if they could even do this again,

Yea you should totally cover Cronos! Such a goodie that I feel not enough people know about!

I really enjoyed the show. But I only had access to it for a short period. Your in depth summary was very entertaining and filled in many holes and story lines.

One of my favorite series I also read the comics. The comics were amazing it goes really deep into the strigoi history and origins. Some characters were better portrayed in the show than the comics and vice versa.

I didn't get a notification for this but I'd been hoping for more coverage on The Strain. Commenting for the algorithm.

One thing u can say for sure about the master, he definitely took the time to learn nuances of what he has.

I LOVE CRONOS!!! that was the first guillermo del toro movie i ever saw and i was hooked!!!! the scene where the old man licks the blood of the floor made me and my gf giggle for years

This is one of those tv shows that I’d like to see have a well thought out reboot as a limited series in future. Something like an 8 part series, streamlined and well paced would be perfect

Love seeing a new video from you man, really great and love that someone has a love for supernatural especially werewolf and vampires Also you gotta cover Selene Galliao from the x men marvel world, she’s more than what she seems and is the first mutant Also maybe you have to see and check out DontNod games especially life is strange (would to see how you think Max’s powers manifested) and Vampyr

Great breakdown thanks.

Great vid as usual. U should do Dylan Dog Dead of Night...plenty of vampires and werewolves in tht one

Hard ch in archangel, hard g in Gah-mor-rah (in the beginning of the video). You put so much work into these videos, I don't want them tripped up by simple mispronunciations. Enjoyed it as always!

I need to watch the series and read the books of this series. Some others for you to look into: Umbrage: A Vampire's Tale He Never Died The Dead Matter Chronos - You mentioned this one in this video Vampire in Brooklyn Werewolf: The Beast Among Us Rockula Ginger Snaps Trilogy - You might have done this one already From Dusk Till Dawn - Both the Movies (mainly 1 & 3) and the Series Lifeforce/Space Vampires - The movie and book are so different. Wishmaster series - something a bit different yet still fits the theme of your channel If I can remember some of the older ones I have seen I will add those as well.

Wish this series had shown the 2 years between 3 and. 4 bc they expanded so much

Keep up the good work!

I just discovered your channel. Love the lure. I binged a lot of the videos. Where you going to do a John Carpenters Vampires breakdown?

Omg yes cronos! I love your channel

Great novels yes yes and the series was amazing...some things were left unanswered but still great..

Dude, you have come a long way. 👍🏾

Hell yeah was waiting for this one baby

The Strain was so good and I loved the books.

I love your videos, I just subscribed - keep it up bro!!!!!! I’d love to see you do a deep dive into the goth kids from South Park, if you don’t know what I’m talking about then you should watch more South Park

I’d hope to see one on vampires from the tv show moonlight or the last voyage of Demeter 🧛‍♂️ 🩸 ⚰️ 🦇

Cogan Lollins, Do a video on vampires in the Elder Scrolls franchise. I think you might enjoy that

I love this show- to keep it quick

Good commentary.

This was such a good show.

What i wouldn't give to see what Del Toro had in mind for the third Hellboy movie. I've read somewhere that the core ideia was circling around a fallen archangel locked in a cold war era soviet bunker. The way he ties his work with religion and historical events always captivated my curiosity. At this point it's very unlikely that movie will ever be made, but we can always wait to see what other ideas he has planned for future works.

You should cover The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Would love to see you talk about the Vampires in the Elder Scrolls

This was such a a good show. Too bad people don't appreciate good stories till they look back on them

I'm waiting for you to do a video on the werewolves from Bad Moon and the vampires from The Hunger. Both unique in their own right.

9:05 reminds me of the new camps tbh, this show is sooo good tbh, I didn’t know that these masters or archangels were the same ones I was taught in school like Gabriel and such. But it makes a lot of sense how a lot of people think angels are the good guys but they are but sometimes they are demons wanting blood I’m Catholic but this show makes a lot of sense

Great video.

Love the videos. What's the name of the song in the intro?

I just finished watching this show

Cooooogan Looollllliiiinnns!! Love the vids my man. Thanks for another awesome video and have always been interested in the ancients. I thought the Strain was a cool show and liked the differences than the norm. Quinlan is a dope character and one of my favorites in the show. Interesting that the fallen angel parts slowly turned into worms. I wondered if worms ate the angel parts to turn into what they did or if the parts turned into the red worms. Also curious if the worms sought out people or each were found by a host to then start their individual processes. Thanks for the video!!

One of the best, maybe the best vampire series

Love this