Word: coffined
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True Blood's vampires have "come out of the coffin" since the Japanese invented synthetic blood (sold as Tru Blood [sic], in six-packs). Humans are skeptical that they've really been taken off the menu--antivamp hate crimes abound--but they're also fascinated. There's a subculture of "fangbangers" who crave vampire sex, and in a clever inversion, a brisk trade in "v," vampire blood, which intensifies the senses and acts like extra-strength Viagra...
...press tour returned from the outpost that had been destroyed and overrun by attacking Georgian tanks on the first day, four local residents had slung the body into a light blue medical cloth and were trying to get it into a yellow coffin. Neighbors stood out in the street, most holding their clothes over their faces because of the smell. Two or three times on the ride back out of the city, that same stench could be smelled...
...instinct for survival. But to tell you I saw this would not be journalistically accurate, although true in the sense that I have seen this image repeatedly in my dreams. All I saw under the driver's carriage was a darkened space, a gap as black as a coffin. - With reporting by Camille Agon
...that proves vampire movies really won't die. Twenty-one years after the original hit theaters, Lost Boys: The Tribe, a sequel to the '80s horror film about a gang of teenage blood-suckers, screened in advance of its direct-to-video release July 29. Climbing out of the coffin with it are Corey Feldman and Corey Haim, stars of the original and now reality TV regulars...
...nearly eight feet tall and looked like a cast-iron coffin. At first, I thought it was somebody's grotesque idea of a joke - a gag gift, perhaps, for Uday Hussein, Saddam's psychopath son and head of Iraqi's sports administration. But when I opened it, I realized its purpose was deadly serious...