Fessenden day care: Early Education at the Fessenden Children’s Center

Meet the Staff – Fessenden Children’s Center

Valda Gabriel, Director

I believe children are: unique individuals that require love, attention, and stability to grow and succeed.

My favorite children’s book is: Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle

My favorite children’s song is: “This Little Light of Mine”

When I’m not taking care of children: I am taking care of my dog, Rusty. I also enjoy spending time in the kitchen baking muffins and bread among other things.

Jennifer Leone, Infants

I believe children are: little humans that are so full of life, as well as, eager and fascinated with learning new things!

My favorite children’s book is: Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish

My favorite children’s song is: “B-I-N-G-O”

When I’m not taking care of children: I am enjoying time with my family and my puppy!

Judy Terhune, Infants

I believe children are: our future.

My favorite children’s book is: Brown Bear, Brown Bear By Bill Martin Jr.

My favorite children’s song is: “If Your Happy And You Know It”

When I’m not taking care of children: I love spending time with my family going boating, to the beach, walking, and taking trips to Maine!

Roselene Luma, Infants

I believe children are: unique, curious, imaginative, and optimistic.

My favorite children’s book is: The Corduroy Series by Don Freeman 

My favorite children’s song is: “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”

When I’m not taking care of children: I spend time with my own family by going shopping, and going to new places. 

Cecilia Johnson, Infants

I believe children are: ever-evolving.  It’s so exciting to witness their growth and changes.

My favorite children’s books are: Big Red Barn and Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown.

My favorite children’s song is: “You are my Sunshine”

When I’m not taking care of children: I enjoy walking, writing, going on road trips and marching in a fife and drum corps.

Michelle Fournier, Infants

I believe children are: our future.

My favorite children’s book is: Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

My favorite children’s song is: “ 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed”

When I’m not taking care of children:  I love taking care of my dog Bella. I also love spending time with my friends and family.

Kristie Shablin, Toddler 1

I believe children are: …our future!  All of our time invested in them is time well spent.

My favorite children’s book is: Belly Button Book by Sandra Boynton

My favorite children’s song is: “If You’re Happy and You Know It“

When I’m not taking care of children:  I’m spending time with my family and friends…I always like going out and trying new things with them!

Robin Leonard, Toddler 1

I believe children are: likely to live up to what you believe of them. We worry about what they will become tomorrow, yet we forget that they are someone today. We must remember that they are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.

My favorite children’s book is: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs by Judi Barrett

My favorite children’s song is: “Skinny Marinky Dinky Dink”

When I’m not taking care of children: I like going antiquing and being overcome with nostalgia.

Sana Shah, Toddler 1

I believe children are: Joyful, sweet, and innocent.

My favorite children’s book is: Don’t Let Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

My favorite children’s song is: “Three Little Kittens”

When I’m not taking care of children:  I love spending time with my family going on picnics, laughing, talking, and having a fun time with my 3 beautiful children and my husband.

Guimei Rao, Toddler 2

I believe children are: our future.

My favorite children’s book is: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

My favorite children’s song is: “The Hokey Pokey”

When I’m not taking care of children: I enjoy traveling, dancing and spending time with my family.

Olivia Gardiner, Toddler 2

I believe children are: Always learning and the things they learn when they are young stay with them as they grow into the adults they eventually become.

My favorite children’s book is: Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

My favorite children’s song is: “This Old Man”

When I’m not taking care of children: I am spending time with my family and friends, reading, and playing sports.

Talitha Giarratani, Toddler 2

I believe children are: amazing little people who will grow to be our future leaders.

My favorite children’s book is:  The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

My favorite children’s song is: “London Bridge”

When I’m not taking care of children: I am spending quality time with my beautiful family.

Catherine DePasquale, Preschool

I believe children are: the future.

My favorite children’s book is: Lion Boy by Zizou Corder

My favorite children’s song is: “Frosty the Snowman”

When I’m not taking care of children: I like to paint with watercolors or acrylics.

Debbie LeBlanc, Preschool

I believe children are: precious!

My favorite children’s book is: Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown.

My favorite children’s song is: “The More We Get Together”

When I’m not taking care of children: I spend time with my husband and three daughters (36,25 and 23 years old).  I also love spending time with my Dad and my sister. I love to read, bake and watch all Boston sports teams!  I also love going to the beach with family and friends.

Scott LaRosee, Preschool/Assistant Director

I believe children are: naturally curious and eager to learn more about the wide world around them.

My favorite children’s book is: Dot by Peter H. Reynolds

My favorite children’s song is: “Animal Action” by Greg and Steve.

When I’m not taking care of children: I like to spend time with my family.  We enjoy playing games, watching and participating in sports, as well as cooking.

Allyson White, Float Teacher

I believe children are:  sponges that absorb everything.

My favorite children’s book is:  Goodnight Gorilla by Peggy Rathman

My favorite children’s song is:  “Slippery Fish”

When I’m not taking care of children:  I like to go to the gym, read and listen to music (except country).

Fessenden Maranda Rae Daycare Home Preschool – Rush City, MN 55069

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Fessenden Maranda Rae provides childcare for families living in the Rush City area. Children engage in play-based, educational activities to help them achieve important milestones. The facility is a home daycare which fosters the development of social skills in a safe, caring environment. A dual-language immersion program provides education and administrative support in both English and . The director offers age-appropriate programming for kids aged Birth to Birth. Contact Fessenden Maranda Rae to discuss operating hours, tuition rates, and schedule a free tour for you and your family.

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Canadian and American inventor Reginald Fessenden was born October 6, 1866

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Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (eng. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden) was born October 6, 1866 in East Bolton (Quebec, Canada). He was the eldest of four children in a priestly family. Reginald studied well and from the age of 14 received a position as a mathematics teacher.

Interested in furthering his qualifications in electrical engineering, he moved to New York in 1886 and worked briefly for the famous inventor Thomas Edison. At 1892 Fessenden received an appointment as a professor in the newly created department of electrical engineering at one of the universities of Indiana. He soon became interested in radio matters.

Fessenden was the first inventor to come up with the idea that radio could transmit sound, and not just serve as a wireless telegraph. First, he went to the University of Pittsburgh weather bureau and convinced them to use the network of coastal radio stations to transmit forecasts. Together with the original application, he improved the receiver itself. He became more sensitive.

Fessenden had to leave the Weather Bureau due to a sponsor dispute. But he soon found himself a new job with the newly formed National Electric Signal Company. There he was engaged in the development of new transmitters of two types: high-power spark for the radiotelegraph service and low-power continuous wave for audio broadcasting.

In 1906, a two-way transatlantic connection was made for the first time between a station at Brant Rock and a similar station in Scotland. This success was provided by the rotary spark transmitter invented by Fessenden.

Among Fessenden’s inventions was another transmitter, the alternator.

1906 also saw the first demonstration of the transmitter as a wireless method of telephony. A few days later, the first broadcast of music to a wide audience took place. And on Christmas night, Fessenden would broadcast his own violin playing and Bible readings. True, Fessenden did not make such transmissions anymore, he considered the alternator transmitter suitable only for telephone communications.

Fessenden has been successful in many areas. He helped build the power plant at Niagara Falls. He made a major contribution to the development of sonar systems, creating the so-called Fessenden generator for submarines, with which submarines can send signals to each other. He proposed a method for detecting icebergs to avoid new catastrophes, such as the tragedy of the Titanic.

After the outbreak of the First World War, Fessenden offered his services to the Canadian government and was sent to London, where he developed a device to detect enemy artillery. He developed another device to search for enemy submarines.

Fessenden ended up owning over 500 patents.

Reginald Aubrey Fessenden died in Bermuda on July 22, 1932, was buried in the cemetery of the local church of St. Mark.

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20 outstanding films about vampires for those who are indifferent to “Twilight” Mia Wasikowska also plays vampires. Gazeta.Ru recalls 20 other films about bloodsuckers, which should be seen by those who are interested in philosophical and artistic searches.

It is necessary these days for a director to make a movie about vampires, as ordinary people and not only start a song: “Well, he decided to profit from the popularity of Twilight.” Nonsense, with Jim Jarmusch casting Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as immortal bloodsuckers and guardians of the spirit of modernist culture, the teenage saga is the last thing that makes sense. The film “Only Lovers Left Alive” is addressed to other people and is embedded in a different vampire context, not without reason that it premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

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It is not even necessary to remember such classics as “Nosferatu. Symphony of Horror by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau or Vampire by Carl Theodor Dreyer. Vampires bit people in the auteur films of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Perhaps in the 2000s, their art house life calmed down a little, but it certainly didn’t die: just remember that in 2012 Neil Jordan’s Byzantium was released with Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton as Victorian succubi, and in 2013 it was Kiss Damned,” shot by Xan Cassavetes, daughter of John Cassavetes. Jordan’s film turned out to be completely shameful, the debut picture of Cassavetes Jr. was tactfully not noticed, but the tradition of auteur cinema with vampires is unlikely to be forgotten in the near future.

To refresh this tradition, Gazeta.Ru selected 20 outstanding films about those who drink blood and arranged them in chronological order.

1. “Valerie a týden divů” (Valerie a týden divů)
1970, directed by Jaromil Jires

Sexual awakening, vampires, surrealism and symbolism in the painting of the Czechoslovakian wave. The thirteen-year-old heroine (thirteen-year-old Yaroslava Shallerova) lives in a dream reality, where the world of adults beckons with pleasure and bliss, but turns into a perverse side when growing up makes itself felt. Adolescence is presented here as a surreal cycle in which the vampire takes on the guise of figures of power – a policeman, a priest, a father – and under the mask of each one is found a man who beckons a girl’s blood. From the allegories and symbols in this picture do not breathe. The perfect movie to educate those who find out with a fright that the notorious “Twilight” is a saga about how a girl wants and is afraid of the first sex.

2. Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
1971, directed by John Hancock

Slow movie, more like an independent psychological thriller than a horror film. After spending six months in a psychiatric hospital, Jessica (Zora Lampert) arrives with her husband (Barton Heyman) at a newly acquired house where a red-haired girl of no fixed abode or occupation (Marikler Costello) has settled while it was empty. The new owners leave the stranger to live indefinitely, then Jessica begins to hear voices and notices that the local men are bandaged as one: some have their necks covered, some have their wrists. The plot of the mystical thriller John Hancock, a theater director and friend of Tennessee Williams, used as a shell for a sad story about a young woman: the heroine is not sure of her own mind, and her husband, instead of support, readily allows himself to be seduced by the first witch who comes across.

3. Cuadecuc, Vampire
1971, directed by Per Portabella

Poetic documentary about the vampire aesthetics of fascism. Catalan Per Portabella worked on a film about the filming of Jesús Franco’s “Count Dracula” with Christopher Lee in the title role, but in the end its result turned out to be more interesting both from an artistic and historical point of view. From color horror footage, on-set footage, and a strange soundtrack, Portabella puts together an amazing avant-garde movie. The director ironically precedes the scene of Dracula’s rise from the coffin with a scene in which Christopher Lee climbs into this coffin. Designed to scare, the images alternate with the poetic and comic details of the filming. The sharply contrasting black-and-white image refers to Murnau’s Nosferat and Dreyer’s Vampire, and in the montage, a story is born of how the dictatorship (it is easy to see General Franco in the character of Christopher Lee here) creates its sinister image from almost nothing.

4. Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
1975, directed by Juan Lopez Moctezuma

A movie in which people drink blood without any mystical overtones. Mexican artist Mary (Christina Ferrare) prepares for an exhibition, succumbs to the flirtation of a gallery owner (Elena Rojo), enters into an uncertain relationship with an American tourist (David Young) and generally leads an ordinary life, but from time to time she pulls a knitting needle out of her hair, pierces another throat and drink blood from the victim. The much more mysterious man in black (John Carradine) sins in the same parallel. In the finale, it turns out that neither the man in black, nor even Mary are immortal creatures of darkness, but suffer from a cancer-like illness: instead of malignant cells, blood vessels grow in their bodies. Juan López Moctezuma, co-producer of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Mole and Fando and the Fox, made one of the first films to present vampirism not as something diabolical, but as a medical, genetic disorder.

5. Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural
1975 directed by Richard Blackburn

An uneven film that highlights several important sub-genre themes. During Prohibition, 13-year-old (popular age) Layla Lee (Cheryl Smith) travels to the city of Astaroth to say goodbye to her dying father. On the way from the attack of wild vampires, the girl is saved by a mysterious stranger named Lemora (Leslie Glebe), who herself turns out to be a vampire and, moreover, a queen of her own kind in Astaroth, torn by a vampire war. However, this movie is not about fighting, but about seduction: Lemora seduces Laila, Laila seduces a priest – here are the elements of a flourishing at 1970s of the genre of lesbian vampire cinema, and allusions to the sexual connotations of relations in the church that confused Catholics.

6. “Martin” (Martin)
1976, directed by George Romero

More like a movie about the subtlety of the boundaries between real, fantastic and imaginary than horror. An orphaned Martin (John Emplas) moves to a dying town to live with his great-uncle (Lincoln Maazel), having managed to open his fellow traveler’s wrist with a knife and drink her blood along the way. The grandfather is clearly aware of Martin’s inclinations and is trying to protect his granddaughter Christina (Christine Forrest) from the young man in grandfather’s ways: garlic, crucifixes, the promise of an aspen stake in the chest in case of bad behavior. But the great-nephew does not believe in the old magic, but claims that he is 84 years old, and has waking dreams in which a crowd with torches is chasing a classic vampire. The nature of the need for blood declared by the hero remains undisclosed, but its connection with sexual desire and the maniacal behavior and self-justifications of Martin are obvious. Director George Romero himself called “Martin” his favorite of his films.

7. Rabid
1977 directed by David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg’s fourth feature. A tissue transplant after an accident causes something like a mutation in Rose (Marilyn Chambers): the heroine discovers that a hole has formed under her arm, where a phallic sting hides. In moments of sexual passion, Rose cannot control herself, and the new organ becomes a tool for consuming blood and infecting victims. Soon, Montreal is engulfed by an epidemic that turns residents into bloodthirsty zombies. This film has much of what Cronenberg is loved for: the connection between catastrophic and sexual experiences, medical experiments on human flesh, collective psychosis, vividly frightening images.

8. Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
1979 directed by Werner Herzog

A great remake of a great movie by a man who has never seen a horror movie. Werner Herzog called the painting by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau “Nosferatu. Symphony of Horrors “the best in the history of German cinema and, when the rights to Bram Stoker’s Dracula went into public use, undertook to express his admiration in the form of his own film. Filmed in color, but inheriting the visual power of the original source, restoring individual shots in detail, but bright in independent finds, as when a house is filled with thousands of rats that look like a new owner. Count Dracula in makeup, almost copying the makeup of Max Schreck, was played by Klaus Kinski. Jonathan Harker’s real estate agent is Bruno Ganz. His beautiful wife, Lucy, Isabelle Adjani. French artist and writer Roland Topor, possessor of a unique laugh, appears as Jonathan’s boss. Herzog and Kinski turn Dracula’s story into a true tragedy: he’s as scary as Murnau’s, but he’s who he is and can’t do anything about it. This is a melancholic character doomed to suffering.

9. Thirst
1979 directed by Rod Hardy

An Australian revision of the vampire movie that surprises and scares. Members of a certain organization kidnap Kate (Chantal Konturi) and tell her that she is a descendant of Elisabeth Bathory, a Hungarian countess who became famous at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries for the bloody murders of young maidens. The brotherhood itself contains something like a farm for obtaining human blood, which the members of the organization drink, and the owner of a suitable heredity is invited to join the ranks of the bloodsuckers. Rejection entails the use of hallucinogenic drugs and the involvement of the heroine’s lover. Rod Hardy skillfully instills elements of science fiction and thriller into old myths to freshen up the stagnant blood of the genre.

10. The Hunger
1983 directed by Tony Scott

A visionary film about undying love and aging that opens the Bauhaus New York concert where the characters find a young couple to invite for dinner. The vampire lovers of Miriam and John are played by Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie: she has a piano, he has a cello, they give music lessons, they are not afraid of daylight, and they use ancient Egyptian pendants to open the throats of victims. Miriam promises John eternal life, love and youth, but one day he begins to grow old before our eyes. By this time, a third character appears in their lives – a doctor who studies aging and sleep is played by Susan Sarandon. In Tony Scott’s color-hypnotizing film, vampirism is a metaphor for the promise of undying love. Sometimes this promise comes true, but in a frightening way.

11. Fright Night
1985 directed by Tom Holland

A film about vampires, the protagonist of which is familiar with the content of vampire films. Horror movie-raised American teenager Charlie (William Rigsdale) discovers that his new neighbor (Chris Sarandon) is a bloodsucker who routinely kills local beauties. In an attempt to stop the villain, the young man turns to Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowell), the host of the TV show Fright Night and the former star of vampire films, for help. Tom Holland’s show film of the same name is an example of a comedic take on the genre: when vampires became part of pop culture, what can surprise an old-fashioned ghoul who sleeps in a coffin and lives in a house with stained glass windows? In 2011, a disgraceful remake was released starring Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell and David Tennant.

12. Near Dark
1987 directed by Kathryn Bigelow

Vampire western set against the backdrop of the American hinterland of the 1980s. In Kathryn Bigelow’s directorial debut, the vampires are a gang of crazy thugs, and the main character is the good guy Caleb (Adrian Pasdar), who meets the sexy and eternally young temptress May (Jenny Wright). “Nearly Dark” can be seen as a story about a boy from a good family’s desire to escape from everyday life in an alluring but dangerous world of leather jackets and daring behavior. But this is not the main thing here, and the main thing is the mixing of genres, the outstanding work of the cameraman Alan Greenberg, Lance Henriksen as the leader of the bloodthirsty caudle and the music of Tangerine Dream electronics from Germany: they were regularly involved in working on atmospheric horror. A small bonus – James Cameron, then Bigelow’s husband, enters the frame for a few seconds. A year earlier, he filmed Aliens, from where Bill Paxton and Jenette Goldsteen also migrated to the set of Nearly Dark with Henriksen.

13. The Lost Boys
1987, directed by Joel Schumacher

Another version of the vampire movie about troubled youth, filmed in the same year as Bigelow’s film. Two teenagers (Jason Patric and Corey Haim) move from Arizona to California, where they come into conflict with a local youth gang, whose members turn out to be vampires (Kiefer Sutherland is the leader). Joel Schumacher’s version is comical: here information about vampires is drawn from comics, and the attack of bloodsuckers is repulsed by covering themselves with garlic, stakes and loading water pistols and guns with holy water, which is also filled with a bath in which one of the attackers is drowned.

14. Cronos
1993 directed by Guillermo del Toro

One of the most beautiful films about blood-drinking for eternal life. In the debut picture of Guillermo del Toro, immortality is bestowed by the invention of an alchemist who lived happily for four hundred years until he died under the rubble of a house during the Spanish Civil War. Today, a device created by an alchemist that is being hunted by a dying businessman ends up in the hands of an old antiquary. The old man has to pay for the unexpected return of youth with a thirst for blood, and a fantastic thriller turns out to be a film about saving self-sacrifice, giving up life at any cost and accepting death.

15. Nadja
1994 directed by Michael Almereida

It could have been a classic New York movie about a family of immigrants, but they turned out to be vampires. Having betrayed the body of her late father to cremation, Nadia (Elina Levenson) goes to Brooklyn to her brother Edgar (Jared Harris) with the hope of a new life, but starting it is not so easy if the father’s name was Count Voevoda Arminius Ceausescu Dracula. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda) and his nephew (Martin Donovan) are hunting for the Count’s missing body, Nadia enters into a love affair with the latter’s wife (Galaxy Craze), and the niece (Suzie Amis) of the legendary vampire hunter is in love with Edgar. As a result, everyone hunts for everyone, trying to save everyone from everyone. Throw in a foppish black and white picture, David Lynch as a producer and Portishead with My Bloody Valentine on the soundtrack – perfect 1990s for vampires.

16. The Addiction
1995, directed by Abel Ferrara

A fantasy about the socio-cultural foundations of vampirism. Philosophy student Caitlin Conklin (Lili Taylor) is bitten by a woman named Casanova (Annabella Sciorra). The consequences are typical for philosophizing youth: torment, reflection, cynical acceptance. The vampires in this movie constantly justify their inability to fight addiction by blaming the victims for not being strong enough to fight back. “Order me to leave,” Casanova says before biting a terrified Caitlin. She freezes in fear. Delving into themselves and those around them, the characters recklessly quote Nietzsche, Feuerbach, Baudelaire and Dante. To whom it is not enough, Christopher Walken embodies the close to success struggle with addiction in Abel Ferrara’s magnetic black-and-white film, advising the heroine to read “Naked Lunch” by William Burroughs.

17. Habit
1995 directed by Larry Fessenden

A film about the similarities between vampirism and alcoholism – a remake of Larry Fessenden’s own film, shot ten years earlier. In 1985, a little-known New York director and actor had only a video camera at his disposal, in 1995, a still little-known author managed to make a spectacular looking and very lively movie about drunkenness, sadness and what excites the blood. The protagonist Sam (Fessenden himself played this role), in longing for his father (died) and girlfriend (left) who left him, drinks without drying out until he meets the mysterious Anna (Meredith Sneijder) at a party. The affair with Anna turns out to be sexually intense, but exhausting and more and more strange: a new girlfriend refuses food under various pretexts, appears in Sam’s life only at night, and in a fit of passion she can bite. Since the hero continues to drink alcohol, it is difficult to understand whether he really got mixed up with a blood-drinking succubus or just drank himself to delirium tremens. Friends tend to the second option, the director – to the first.

18. Trouble Every Day
2001 directed by Claire Denis

A film about the desire to sink one’s teeth into another as an extreme form of desire for intimacy. Newlyweds Shane (Vincent Gallo) and June (Tricia Vessey) honeymoon in Paris, where a disease-obsessed Shane searches the laboratory for answers to questions about himself, only to discover that the wife (Beatrice Dahl) of a doctor (Alex Deca) suffers from the same condition. . The heroes of Gallo and Dahl are not able to stop in sex until they dig into the partner’s flesh and wash themselves with his blood. Claire Denis, a student of Jean-Luc Nancy, a researcher of human corporeality and all sorts of boundaries, made a film not even about vampirism, but about an irresistible craving to merge with another. Denis shows the borderline manifestations of this craving with such unbearable power that the audience was taken out of the shows. After all, even in sex it is impossible to become one with another person – all that remains is to devour him.

19. Let Me In (Låt den rätte komma in)
2008 directed by Tomas Alfredson

Swedish film about vampire as eternal child and love as exploitation. In the early 1980s, a quiet Swedish boy, Oskar (Kare Hedebrant), offended at school, strikes up a friendship with a girl who has settled in the neighborhood, Eli (Lina Leandersson). Then it turns out that the girl needs human blood and can tear off the heads of offenders, not only her own. Then – that she is not quite a girl. In the hands and eyes of director Thomas Alfredson (who would later direct Spy Get Out), the gentle Scandinavian film about feelings on the thin line between childhood and adolescence turns into a love story as a relationship that is fundamentally unequal, impossible, but still desirable and beautiful. The American remake with Chloe Grace Moretz is not bad, but not absolutely necessary.

20. “Thirst” (Bakjwi)
2009 directed by Park Chan-wook

Korean fantasy based on Emile Zola’s Therese Raquin. A Catholic priest (Song Kang-ho) returns from Africa, where he contracted a deadly virus but somehow didn’t die. It turns out that vampirism suddenly developed in the pastor allows to contain the disease. In addition to the ailments and false enthusiasm of the flock, the hero falls in love with the wife of a friend, which leads to the development of events described by Zola, but with a different emphasis. The same corpse, but instead of self-interest – the desire to protect, and instead of depravity – a crisis of faith and despondency. The director of “Oldboy”, a very strange comedy about a cyborg girl and the thriller “Stoker”, filmed after “Thirst”, habitually created something that does not fit into any framework: formally this is a melodrama, and you can not imagine a more ridiculous film about bloodsuckers; here blood flows in an endless stream, only for every liter there is a moment of indescribable beauty; finally, this is a movie about vampires, but it is as if there were no other films about vampires.