Cheryl Eddy, Author at Gizmodo

This Scifi Horror Short Contains One of the Creepiest Space Monsters We’ve Ever Seen

Jerónimo Rocha’s scifi horror short Dédalo is reminiscent of Alien in both visuals and story. It follows a woman who appears to be the lone survivor of a gruesome attack on her space freighter. Her frantic struggle to survive is suspenseful as hell, but the real draw here is that alien creature, specifically its freakishly…

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We Have So Many Questions About What the Hell Is Happening in Twin Peaks: The Return

We’ve only seen four of the 18 hours of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks: The Return, but we already have a lot of questions. A lot. Since half the fun of Twin Peaks is never fully understanding what’s going on at any given moment, we decided to round up everything that’s bedeviling us…

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Doug Liman Will Not Direct the Justice League Dark Movie After All

It’s been a tumultuous week for DC movie directors. First, Zack Snyder announced he was stepping away from November’s Justice League for family reasons. Today comes news that Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow) will not be helming the live-action Justice League Dark movie, Dark Universe. His reasons are, fortunately, not as dramatic as Snyder’s. Turns…

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The Mist Looks Surprisingly Timely for a Show About a Monstrous Cloud

We’ve gotten a few evocative trailers for Spike TV’s eerie, violent Stephen King adaptation, The Mist. Now we have a behind-the-scenes featurette that explains a bit more about the characters, and how the show will focus not just how they’re affected by the titular menace, but also on how living in terror will reshape the community…

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Twin Peaks Has Evolved, But It’s Still as Surreal, Ominous, and Wonderful as Ever

Did you watch all four hours of Twin Peaks: The Return that became available yesterday? Is your brain still rattling around in your skull like mine is? It was violent, it was completely bizarre, and there was a lot of coffee drinking. And most importantly, it was totally worth the 26-year wait. Anyone tuning in…

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The Shining Joins Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights to Terrify Visitors Forever and Ever and Ever…

Every year, the Universal theme parks in Orlando and Hollywood go all-out for Halloween, adding haunted mazes to their usual attractions. But for some reason, cinema’s most iconic spooky maze—y’know, the one at the Overlook Hotel—hasn’t been included. Until now. The press release welcoming The Shining into the fold was accompanied by this short video,…

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Alien‘s Ripley Is My Favorite Action Hero Ever

Not heroine. Hero, period. While it’s rad that Ellen Ripley happens to be a woman, that doesn’t at all impact her level of badassery—though it does inform her character in ways that make her much more interesting than virtually any other cinematic hero. She’s complicated, she feels real, and I have total confidence the Alien…

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Carrie Brownstein Will Direct Fairy Godmother, a Movie That Suddenly Just Got Way Cooler

So, MGM has this teen romance called Fairy Godmother that’s about to go into production. You’re bored already. But! What sounds like a sappy fantasy suddenly got extremely interesting, because the studio just made an unexpectedly awesome choice when it hired a director: Carrie Brownstein. Yes, that’s Carrie Brownstein of Portlandia fame, who in addition…

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Surprise, a Dark Crystal Prequel Series Is Coming to Netflix

The last time we heard anything about a prequel to Jim Henson’s fantasy classic The Dark Crystal, it was in book form, not in Netflix original series form. But that has changed today, with the announcement of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. It’ll run 10 episodes and yes, there will be puppets. Here’s the…

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A Time-Travel Experiment Works All Too Well in Scifi Short The Constant

In a makeshift lab, a trio of brainiac students argue over their time-travel device. The skeptic on the team has her doubts—not that the invention will work, but whether they should be mucking around with time in the first place. Ben Tedesco’s The Constant feels a bit talky at first, but the payoff is well…

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Stranger Things‘ Shawn Levy Is Making an Alien Invasion Drama

Shawn Levy is busy as hell. He’s one of the producers behind the highly-anticipated second season of Stranger Things, plus he has the Uncharted adaptation and the Starman remake on his directorial slate. But he’s also got his eye on an original movie that is, as it happens, also scifi: The Fall. Based on a…

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Ridley Scott Will Curate a Night of New Science Fiction Programming for TNT

Though Ridley Scott is best-known for directing feature films, including this week’s Alien: Covenant, he’s also extremely involved in TV—one recent example being his producing role on The Man in the High Castle. Next up, he’ll be working with TNT to bring even more science fiction to the airwaves. Deadline reports that Scott will fill…

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King Kong Is Coming to Broadway as a Musical

With Kong: Skull Island still fresh in the pop culture consciousness, the giant ape has just announced another star turn—though it’s unrelated to his activities on the big screen. King Kong, an animatronics-laden musical written by Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’s Jack Thorne, is heading to Broadway. The show is described in its press…

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The 15 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Noir Films

Putting the tantalizing mixture of scifi and fantasy with stylish, gritty crime and intrigue on movie screens is nothing new. In fact, it’s been a tradition practically since film noir came into fashion, and the combination has resulted in some truly great films. Here are our favorites. 15) The Thirteenth Floor An amazing new virtual…

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The Purge TV Show Will Not Actually Be About the Purge

We’ve known since last fall about the planned TV show based on The Purge, the series of films that imagine an America that allows, encourages, and delights in one night per year of lawless anarchy and violence. We now have an even better idea of how that concept will translate to the small screen. Long…

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Hell Yes, The Exorcist Is Getting a Second Season

The Exorcist was one of the best surprises on TV last year—if you’re a fan of pull-no-punches horror shows with compelling characters and gloriously gory special effects. Season one wrapped up in December, and Fox has been keeping the faithful waiting to hear if it would return. Good news, demon peeps! Deadline reports that there…

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The Newest Twin Peaks Trailer Offers Tantalizing Glimpses of Faces and Places Old and New

May 21 is rapidly approaching, and while some things will certainly have changed in the spooky realm of Twin Peaks—including some new characters we’re seeing here for the first time—there are also some frozen-in-time moments, too. There’s Lucy, still holding down the desk at the sheriff’s department, and Shelley, having what looks like girls’ night…

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What Happens in Vegas Follows You Into the Desert and Tries to Eat You in This New Zombie Trailer

It Stains the Sands Red is a zombie movie that seems to borrow a bit from It Follows—it’s about a woman who can’t shake the plodding pursuit of the undead new man in her life. But it’s also set in the Nevada desert, lending a flashy danger to that region not seen since Nomi Malone…

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The Suspiria Remake Just Added One of Its Most Crucial Collaborators

Dario Argento’s Italian horror classic Suspiria is beloved for many reasons, but high atop the list is the film’s haunting score by frequent Argento collaborators Goblin. A Suspiria remake is due later this year, and the crucial slot of soundtrack creator has just been announced. It’s a name you might recognize. According to Variety, Radiohead…

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A Surreal Animated Tale of a Man, a Raft, a Paddle, and a Sarcastic Ghost

“A cautionary tale,” reads the description for this surreal nursery rhyme of an animated short, Klementhro. It’s repetitive at first, but stick with it… it takes a dark turn and features maybe the snappiest, most over-it ghost ever to float beside a river bank. [Short of the Week]

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This Scifi Horror Short Contains One of the Creepiest Space Monsters We’ve Ever Seen

We Have So Many Questions About What the Hell Is Happening in Twin Peaks: The Return

Doug Liman Will Not Direct the Justice League Dark Movie After All

The Mist Looks Surprisingly Timely for a Show About a Monstrous Cloud

Twin Peaks Has Evolved, But It’s Still as Surreal, Ominous, and Wonderful as Ever

The Shining Joins Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights to Terrify Visitors Forever and Ever and Ever…

Alien‘s Ripley Is My Favorite Action Hero Ever

Carrie Brownstein Will Direct Fairy Godmother, a Movie That Suddenly Just Got Way Cooler

Surprise, a Dark Crystal Prequel Series Is Coming to Netflix

A Time-Travel Experiment Works All Too Well in Scifi Short The Constant

Stranger Things‘ Shawn Levy Is Making an Alien Invasion Drama

Ridley Scott Will Curate a Night of New Science Fiction Programming for TNT

King Kong Is Coming to Broadway as a Musical

The 15 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Noir Films

The Purge TV Show Will Not Actually Be About the Purge

Hell Yes, The Exorcist Is Getting a Second Season

The Newest Twin Peaks Trailer Offers Tantalizing Glimpses of Faces and Places Old and New

What Happens in Vegas Follows You Into the Desert and Tries to Eat You in This New Zombie Trailer

The Suspiria Remake Just Added One of Its Most Crucial Collaborators

A Surreal Animated Tale of a Man, a Raft, a Paddle, and a Sarcastic Ghost

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