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io9MoviesThe 10 Stupidest (And Most Shameless) Mad Max Rip-Offs
Mad Max is a movie about a post-disaster world, and its success has inspired oodles of disastrously bad films. Witness Grade-Z movies so epically execrable that you’ll be yearning for a couple minutes in Thunderdome. 1) Battletruck Also known as Warlords of the 21st Century (the film takes place in 1994), 1982’s Battletruck was New … Continued
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io9MoviesThe Worst Scifi Snubs in Oscar History
It’s Oscar season, so brace yourself for more snubs when it comes to science fiction movies. Speculative fiction has a crummy track record when it comes to the Academy Awards, and even when an iconic scifi flick scores Oscar nods, it tends to be ignored in everything but the technical categories (see: E.T., Star Wars, … Continued
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io9The Man With The Iron Fists isn’t bad if you imagine Russell Crowe wandered on set and decided to be in a movie
Incidentally, this isn’t too far from the truth. As reality would have it, Crowe (a main character in Iron Fists) spent all of ten days on set, channeling legendarily unhinged and deceased Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Said Robert “RZA” Diggs — the film’s director and famed Wu-Tang producer — in the movie’s press … Continued
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io9Goodbye-o9, you beautiful bastards
Today — after nearly three years of editorial service — is my last official day with io9. Rather than wax florid and spin a rickety, sappy analogy concerning Frederik Pohl’s Heechee Saga — as I initially planned — I will instead use the cast of Aliens to spin an even ricketier, sappier analogy as a … Continued
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Eat a big burlap sack of zombie dongs, Walking Dead
Don’t let the headline lead you astray — we actually enjoyed this week’s installment of The Walking Dead, just as Glenn and Maggie enjoyed each other’s unwashed bodies in the prison’s newly anointed Sex Tower. But the show did something absolutely unforgivable last night, with a plot twist that drove the thumbscrews through my heart. … Continued
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A sneak preview of this week’s issue of Animal Man
Courtesy of DC Comics, here’s a first look at this Wednesday’s issue of Animal Man, which sees Buddy Baker stuck in a hellish nightmare future known as “The Rotworld” alongside mutated corpse versions of Deathstroke the Terminator and Grifter. Here’s the rundown: ANIMAL MAN #14 Written by: Jeff Lemire Art by: Steve Pugh, Timothy Green, … Continued
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The wall of eyeballs that makes you go blind is our new favorite monster from Japanese mythology
We’ve discussed yōkai — or supernatural monsters from Japanese mythology — on io9 before, namely the disgusting, turtle-like kappa. But the yōkai artwork of Toriyama Sekien (1712-1788) will introduce you to some even weirder monsters from Japanese folklore, such as the mokumokuren (a blinding eyeball demon that dwells in paper walls), the oboroguruma (an oxcart … Continued
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How would Rain Man be different if it was about giant crustaceans that ate people’s tongues?
This is the very question io9 asked Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson (The Natural, Bugsy) about his new horror flick The Bay, which sees a bucolic Chesapeake Bay town overrun by a breed of pollution-mutated parasites. Spoilers ahead… io9: What were the challenges of filming The Bay in the found footage format? Barry Levinson: First … Continued
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Behold a “beard tax” token from the beard-hating days of Imperial Russia
Under the rule of Russian tsar and notorious beard-hater Peter the Great – which ran from 1682-1725 – men sporting facial hair were subjected to a beard tax that afforded them a token informing strangers that they were honest, tax-paying hairballs. As Erik Jensen explains in a 2003 article from the journal Tax Notes: For … Continued
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io9Television
We visited Rick Grimes’ Bizarro World on The Walking Dead
Last week’s episode of The Walking Dead saw team leader Rick Grimes rely on some particularly extreme measures. And Sunday’s episode,”Walk With Me,” focused solely on the adventures of Andrea and her taciturn samurai traveling companion, Michonne. But the women aren’t alone on their journey across post-apocalyptic Georgia. No, they made some tremendously dangerous new … Continued
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io9A Gorgeous Time-Lapse Film Of An Old West Ghost Town
What happens when you mix Johnny Cash with haunting photography of one of America’s best preserved ghost towns? You get this absolute doozy of a video by Colin Rich, who captured the forlorn beauty of Bodie, California. Explains Rich of walking among the ruins of Bodie: Gold was discovered back in 1859 by William S … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Read an exclusive sneak peek of this week’s issue of Doctor Who — and more!
Courtesy of IDW Publishing, here’s over twenty pages of sneak previews of this week’s issues of Doctor Who, Godzilla, and 30 Days of Night. All of these issues hit shops this Wednesday, October 31. Here are the synopses: Doctor Who #2 Andy Diggle (w) • Mark Buckingham (a & c) A shadow being has emerged … Continued
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io9TelevisionOn The Venture Bros., Halloween is a time to summon toast demons
Two years and one music video later, The Venture Bros. made their return to basic cable with “A Very Venture Halloween,” a special the show’s masterminds proclaimed would hearken back to the heartwarming Halloween specials of yesteryear. Was it a veritable It’s The Great Mecha Shiva, Charlie Brown? Not exactly, but it was a frequently … Continued
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io9TelevisionA first look at the Axe Cop cartoon show!
The very first clip from Fox ADHD’s upcoming Axe Cop cartoon show has hit the internet. Check out how the hero — who is the creation of a thirtysomething cartoonist and his elementary-school brother — celebrates Halloween like a lunatic for justice. Axe Cop will air next summer on FOX. Remember, always play it safe … Continued
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Watch an eerie 12-minute short movie about an astronaut marooned on an alien world
Here’s Seed, a starkly handsome short film inspired heavily by 1960s and 1970s science fiction cinema. Explains director Tyson Wade Johnston, “Set in the year 2071, where technology has brought mankind to the brink of colonization on a planet named Gaia, one astronaut takes on an isolated mission and discovers unearthly horrors that could bring … Continued
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Using your 11-foot-beard as a nest for cats is history’s great unsung fashion trend
We’ve examined nineteenth century photographers’ obsessions with cats before, but these portraits are a whole other brand of ridiculousness. Behold Monsieur Louis Coulon, born in 1827, the owner of a 3.3-meter-long beard, and the progenitor of the “Hirsute Kitten Cathedral Look.” I wonder how his mighty mane smelled? https://gizmodo.com/even-in-the-1870s-humans-were-obsessed-with-ridiculous-5900334 It’s unclear why Coulon grew his … Continued
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io9MoviesA short movie about an apocalypse inhabited by disembodied limbs
This is The Origin of Creatures, a bizarre 10-minute film by Floris Kaayk about a post-apocalyptic future where human beings have devolved into swarms of appendages. Here’s the synopsis and making-of this charmingly twisted short flick: The Origin of Creatures is based on one of the most well-known tales about collaboration, the Tower of Babel. … Continued
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This is how you exorcise a “gay demon”
You may remember Bob Larson, the exorcist-for-hire who conscripted his karate-chopping teenage daughters into his for-profit war with Satan. But did you know that Reverend Larson has experience expelling the dreaded “gay demon”? https://gizmodo.com/teenage-exorcist-squad-has-its-debutante-ball-on-nation-5899694 Obviously, everything about this is sad and weird and depressing, but it does lead one to wonder what the heck the … Continued
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