Sweet Thooth, 2021, 2023, 2024

 Sweet Tooth is an American fantasy drama television series developed by Jim Mickle. It is based on the comic book series created by Jeff Lemire and published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. The series premiered on Netflix in June 2021, with a second season released in April 2023, and a third and final season announced the following month. The third season premiered on June 6, 2024. 

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Ten years ago in "The Great Crumble", society collapsed due to a viral pandemic of a disease known as the Sick (or the H5G9 virus), wiping out most of the world's human population. At the same time, many babies start to be born as mute hybrids with animal body parts and other characteristics.

Unsure whether hybrids are the cause of the virus or a result of it, many humans fear and hunt them. Gus, a part-deer hybrid, lives in the wilderness with his father whom he calls "Pubba". Pubba dies when Gus is nine years old and Gus discovers a box his father buried beneath a tree that contains what Gus believes is a photograph of his mother, with the word "Colorado" written on it.

Gus accidentally starts a fire, which brings hunters who try to kill him, but he is saved by Tommy Jepperd, a lone traveller also drawn by the fire. Jepperd tries to leave Gus, but the boy insists that he escort him to Colorado to find his mother, and he relents.

The story also follows Dr. Aditya Singh as he tries to find a cure for the Sick, which his wife has lived with for years; and Bear, who is the leader and founder of the Animal Army which saves and protects hybrids. Bear is looking for her sister Wendy, a part-pig hybrid rescued by Aimee Eden, a former therapist whose sanctuary for hybrids is called "The Preserve".

Rating: 10 Stars.

El Conde, 2024

 El Conde (lit. 'The Count') is a 2023 Chilean black comedy horror film directed by Pablo Larraín and written by Larraín and Guillermo Calderón. It is a satire that portrays Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a 250-year-old vampire seeking death. The film stars Jaime Vadell, Gloria Münchmeyer, Alfredo Castro, and Paula Luchsinger.

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In the 18th century, Claude Pinochet, a royalist French soldier, is discovered to be a vampire and survives an attempt to kill him. Witnessing the French Revolution and the execution of Marie Antoinette, he fakes his death and flees abroad, participating in the suppression of revolutionary upheavals over the next two centuries. Eventually, he ends up in Chile in 1935 and joins the Chilean Army under the name Augusto Pinochet. Rising to become a general, he overthrows the socialist government of Salvador Allende in 1973 and becomes the country's dictator, demanding that he be addressed as "The Count" by his family. When authorities begin investigating his ill-gotten wealth and human rights abuses after he leaves office, he fakes his death again and retires to a remote farm.

After 250 years of existence, he gradually loses his will to live, worrying his wife Lucía, and his long-time butler, Fyodor, a white Russian whom Pinochet bit and turned into a vampire. Fyodor takes up Augusto's military uniform and goes on a gruesome killing spree to find and consume human hearts in Santiago. Thinking that their father was responsible and anxious to receive their inheritance, the Pinochet children hire a nun, Carmen, to exorcise and kill Augusto under the guise of auditing the family's wealth, and go to the farm, followed by Carmen, who charms Augusto with her fluency in French. Augusto later discovers that Fyodor is having an affair with Lucía but tolerates it as he has grown tired of her. Carmen extensively interviews the household over their legal troubles and finances, assembling a dossier which she hides in her room.

Carmen eventually reveals her true identity as a nun to Augusto and tries to exorcise him, but is overwhelmed by his presence and ends up having sexual intercourse with him, allowing him to transform her into a vampire. This prompts the arrival of Margaret Thatcher, who is revealed to be Claude's mother, having abandoned him at an orphanage at birth after she was raped and bitten by a Strigoi.

Margaret, jealous of Carmen's claims to Augusto's love, orders her son to kill her. Instead, Augusto shows off his wealth to Carmen, whereupon Carmen reveals that she has been feigning her attraction to him, and that her becoming a vampire was part of her mission on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church to infiltrate the Pinochets and gather information on their corrupt dealings. As she flees, she is captured and guillotined by Fyodor, who burns her dossier. Fyodor, Lucía, and the Pinochet children then attempt to kill Augusto and Margaret to gain their inheritance, but Augusto kills Lucía by driving a stake through her heart and beheads Fyodor with a saw.

The children are left to salvage what they could of the farm. As they leave, a group of nuns arrives to look over the now emptied property. Augusto and Margaret rejuvenate themselves with vampire hearts and leave to start a new life. Augusto, now a boy, chooses to remain in Chile, saying more leftists will emerge.

Rating: 10 Stars

Under Paris, 2024

In the movie, an army of mutated mako sharks essentially takes over the world. Lilith, the shark, has a personal connection to marine scientist Sophia. Sophia’s husband was killed by Lilith during an attempt to preserve sea life in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Lilith, showing signs of gargantuan growth, migrates to the freshwater Seine three years later, adapting to survive there due to climate change and pollution. She can now reproduce via parthenogenesis, leading to an exponential increase in giant, mutant makos.

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Sophia faces two obstacles: the Parisian government, which refuses to take the shark threat seriously, and the youth-driven activist group Save Our Seas Mika, from the activist group, broadcasts Lilith’s plight on social media, leading to her own death and the realization that Lilith has offspring. Sophia teams up with France’s most handsome police diver, Adil, to bomb Lilith’s nest. With the sharks breeding aggressively and adapting to unfavourable conditions, they threaten to take over the world’s oceans if not stopped. 

Twelve people died previously in the beginning of the movie and later many people died in the triathlon marathon. For me it was a case of sacrifice. The Co-Pilot lied about the number of deaths, saying that was only 12 people that died. 

How the Sharks Attack:

First they look you in the eyes, they take a walk around you and after that they attack. If you are hostile they respond after, destroying you. The girl Adi in the movie succeeded to touch in the face the Shark and the shark remained quiet, but Mika started to scream telling her that the Shark would attack her because she had babies, they all started to scream and the Shark attacked the girl. I cannot say if it was the reason, the screamings, but i believe that was not good to scream.  In the first group the 12 that died pierced the Shark with a spear and his reaction was immediate.  

RATING: 10 STARS