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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL’S ‘EXPLORER: VAMPIRE FORENSICS’
Before Robert Pattinson made vampires a Hollywood heartthrob, 16th century Venetians battled the unimaginable horror of the plague, then a growing legend of the “shroud eater.”
National Geographic Channel’s “Explorer: Vampire Forensics” follows forensic anthropologist Matteo Borrini as he digs deeper into this legend.
Venice, 1575 – the jewelled city of northern Italy is in the throes of unimaginable horror. One of the worst plagues ever to strike mankind: the Black Death. Mass graves swell with thousands of bodies. A legend grows that a vampire known as a “Shroud-eater” is the cause of the plague. The Shroud-eater feasts on corpses, then rises from the earth to infect the living.
More than four hundred years later Italian forensic anthropologist and CSI specialist Matteo Borrini leads a team excavating a 16th Century mass grave on one of Venice’s outlying islands.
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‘GABRIEL’: YOU GOTTA LOVE THESE VAMPIRES
Listening to tales of her roommate’s erratic new boyfriend — he never calls, doesn’t seem to have a job, and shows up only after dark — the young woman nods sympathetically: “This sounds more like a horror movie than a romantic one.” Good guess, and she hadn’t even seen the fangs yet.
Gabriel: Amor inmortal (Gabriel: Immortal Love; Echo Bridge, $23.99), when it aired in 2008, marked the Spanish Broadcasting System’s bold attempt to break away from Spanish-language television’s fatigued (if lucrative) telenovela model: a weekly series rather than a nightly soap, featuring characters who were ravenous vampires rather than peasant girls being wooed by rich Prince Charmings.
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“Explorer: Vampire Forensics” airs Tuesday, February 23 at 10PM ET/PT. Will you be watching it?
Are you a fan of ‘Gabriel’?
