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Apr '18
Anyone here ever read this? It's pretty fun, it's like Salem's Lot on a much bigger scale. It involved vampires taking over Los Angeles, with some backstory in Hungary at the beginning. It would make a hell of a movie.

I was just thinking, I wonder if it might have been one of the original inspirations for The Terminator. I had this idea partly because of the general setting, Los Angeles, and the basic story about a group of fairly normal, average people trying to head off a really overwhelming apocalypse. But, there are shitloads of books and movies about that general type of thing. What has got me thinking about this right now is that there are some scenes in a police station that gets overrun, although in this case it gets overrun by bats, not Arnold. Also, one of the characters in the police station at the time is named Reece. He is a cop, not a rebel freedom fighter from the future, but just seeing his name in the scenes when the police station gets overrun got me thinking. Also, there is a little back and forth conversation between him and another cop that makes me think of the dialog between Lance Henriksen and Paul Winfield, in The Terminator.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?


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Box_a_Hair says:
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Apr '18
The Terminator has plenty of possible influences. This might be one, but reading the plot summary on wiki, the story sounds like a mess.

If you want more direct Terminator influences, the go-to sources would be those few Outer Limits episodes, as well as X-Men: Days of Future Past, which like this book, came out on 1981. Even that movie had a bunch of terminator vibes in it.


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Tommix says:
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Apr '18
I knew about the Outer Limits episodes, but the X-Men Days of Future Past is news to me. I will check that out!

They Thirst is not bad, in my opinion. It makes me think of the opening scenes of The Howling sometimes, just in the general early 80s sleaziness of the city. It also makes me think of The Stand a little... there's a biker dude who reminds me of Randall Flagg at times. Anyway, it's not War and Peace, but it's entertaining enough, IMHO.


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Box_a_Hair says:
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Apr '18
Days of Future Past is an obvious one. Set in the future where mutants and humans are hunted to near extinction, one of them is able to go back in time to prevent the catastrophic future. In the comic, it was Kitty Pride, but in the movie, it's Wolverine.

I really like the movie too. I'd seen it about 20 goddamn times. Best X-Men movie of the series.


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Tommix says:
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Apr '18
By the way, one novel that probably influenced this book is Lucifer's Hammer, which is about a comet hitting the Earth, and how people in California deal with the aftemath. There's a scene toward the end of They Thirst, which is extremely similar to a scene toward the beginning of Lucifer's Hammer. If you have read both books (which I recommend doing!!) then you know what I mean.



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