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Rogue White Cobra Finds New Home

Even if you have a snake phobia (like we do), you gotta admit that this venomous white cobra is a marvel to behold. The reptile was captured in September in Thousand Oaks, Calif. after apparently escaping from its never-located owner … not suprising, since it’s illegal to own a cobra without a permit in California.…

The 10 Most Bone-Chillingly Inappropriate Christmas Movies

Yeah, there’s a soft spot in our coal-black hearts for the uplifting likes of A Christmas Story and It’s A Wonderful Life. But sometimes, the holidays call for a little more darkness. A little more mayhem. A little more murder. Inappropriate? Maybe. But that’s the way we like it. 1) Black Christmas (1974) No list…

Building the Force: When L.A.-based Westside UrbanForum handed out its annual architecture awards, it bestowed cheeky “Darth Vader Awards” on a pair of memorable structures: Peter Zumthor’s “foreboding, jet black LACMA expansion,” and Renzo Piano’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Museum, which has a “helmet-looking theater.”

Zombie Nativity Scene Gets Censored in Cincinnati

Folks, we have a new hero in our midst, and it’s a Cincinnati-area man named Jasen Dixon who built an illuminated, zombie-themed Nativity scene in his front yard … complete with undead baby Jesus. Alas, his neighbors were none too pleased with his handiwork. As Fox News reports, neither were Sycamore Township officials, who ordered…

Big Eyes Isn’t The Tim Burton Comeback You Were Hoping For

Fans of Tim Burton’s early films have been holding out hope that his new movie Big Eyes will signal a return to form for the master of quirky goth movies. And it does … up to a certain point. On paper, the through line of Tim Burton’s filmography is his unending desire to champion the…

FDA Ends Ban on Blood Donations By Gay Men … But There’s A Catch

Talk about problematic progress. The AP headline crowing “US Moves to End Ban on Blood Donations by Gay Men” comes with a whopper of an asterisk: gay and bisexual men who wish to donate blood may do so only if they’ve refrained from having sex with another man for a full year prior. This is…

Was Michael Rockefeller Killed By Cannibals?

Michael Rockefeller was the son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and an aspiring ethnographer. In 1961, he disappeared while researching the people of what was then New Guinea in what has become one of history’s most intriguing unsolved crimes. Now, a documentary offers evidence that he was killed by cannibals. https://gizmodo.com/the-8-most-intriguing-unsolved-crimes-1671225025 As Page Six…

Survey Reveals the Worst Countries for Tripping on Psychedelics

The annual Global Drug Survey charts drug use patterns across the globe. Of particular interest this year are some stats revealing which countries are the most likely to produce “bad trips” for users of psychedelic drugs. The Guardian reports: The GDS produces a “High-way Code” to safer drug use, based on the experiences of users.…

Fans of destruct-o-tainment: step right this way for Curbed’s deeply satisfying video countdown of “The 10 Best Demolitions of 2014, Judged Purely on Aesthetics.” Fireworks! Earnest commentary! Stirring soundtracks! It’s all here … no earplugs required.

Photos of the American West, Made Entirely with Junk Food

Behold Moonrise on Bologna. It’s part of a series entitled “Processed Views: Surveying the Industrial Landscape” by midwestern artists Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman; the two have use junk food to recreate Carleton Watkins‘ 19th century landscape photos of the American West. According to the artists, the series (which also includes works entitled “Deep Fried…

This Is Not A Photo Of A Rock

Who needs a hotel? Roadtrippers highlights this singular Swiss Alps cabin, which is tucked into a sculpture garden and looks for all the world like a giant boulder. If you’re driving by and really squint, you might just notice a strange square window carved out of the rock. Hidden inside is a fully functioning cabin…

Of Course There’s A Movie Called Ebola Zombies

Ebola movies are nothing new (hellooo, Ebola Syndrome), but as Fangoria reports, the world will soon see its disease fear du jour explored in all its flesh-ripping glory in cinematic form: Wild Eye Releasing will unleash EBOLA ZOMBIES on DVD March 24, with a making-of featurette and trailers. The Category III Hong Kong production, written…

Amateur Paleontologist Finds Complete Ichthyosaur Skeleton On The Beach

A man out for a stroll on a South Welsh beach stumbled upon something rather remarkable: a fully-articulated, seven-foot ichthyosaur skeleton — described by the National Museum Wales as “a potentially very, very important find.” As Wales Online reports: Amateur fossil hunter Jonathan Bow has unearthed a seven foot skeleton of a ichthyosaur carniverous marine…

Why Does the World Need Black and White Tomatoes?

Ever been chopping a salad or assembling a sandwich and thought, “Dammit, I sure wish tomatoes weren’t so damn red all the time”? British breeders Suttons Seeds, who already perfected the black tomato, have created the world’s first black and white tomato plant, reports the Daily Mail: A [Suttons] spokesman said: “This year we have…

All Hail This Majestically Satanic Holiday Display

Our pals in the Satanic Temple are at it again. You’ll recall the group’s legal battle for equal representation among the holiday displays at Florida’s state capitol; this week, it’ll be unveiling the below display (the bow is a nice touch) at the Michigan state capitol. The Temple’s reasoning is, unsurprisingly, similiar to its Sunshine…

Hong Kong Star Daniel Wu Tries To Resurrect Martial Arts As A TV Genre

NorCal-born Hong Kong megastar Daniel Wu is set to star in and executive produce AMC’s upcoming six-part martial arts drama, tentatively titled Badlands. This could be the first martial arts-centric TV show in the U.S. since Sammo Hung’s late lamented show Martial Law, back in 2000. As Deadline reports, the series is based on popular…

Golden-Winged Warblers Can Predict When Tornados Will Strike

A recent study out of UC Berkeley has discovered that tiny golden-winged warblers can predict impending storms — or rather, they can actually hear them approaching. Scientists hope to use what they’ve learned to help save lives ahead of violent weather. Reports The Atlantic: In April, a massive thunderstorm unleashed a series of tornadoes that…

You’re Better Off Sleeping Through Night At The Museum 3

Night at the Museum: The Secret of the Tomb begins within the Egyptian tomb of its title, but since this is the third Museum flick, there are precious few secrets left. The big reveal this time around is that the magic is wearing off — which seems a good metaphor for this joyless sequel, itself.…

An STD Is A Supernatural Horror In Creepy New Trailer For It Follows

Maika Monroe — so great as the goth waitress in The Guest — returns to genre turf in writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows. Behold the new, synth-tastically scored trailer, and see why the label “STD horror” so eerily applies. The film earned mega-buzz after its Cannes debut and played in festivals all over the…

Ascension Ends With A Final Supreme Moment Of WTF

So we didn’t especially like Ascension’s first chapter, which seemed to promise one thing and then deliver another. Fortunately, the second and third chapters had better pacing and some great moments… before ending with another huge moment of WTF. Spoilers ahead… The first episode of Ascension ended with a somewhat rug-pulling reveal: the main characters…