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Weird and Wonderful Movies That You’ll Never Get to See

Netflix and your local DVD store are bursting with more movies than you could watch in your lifetime. But tragically, some of the world’s strangest movies will never be available on DVD at all. The TCM database estimates that only 4.8% of all films ever made are currently available to the public. Though the Internet…

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Survival Strategies for the Long-Term Unemployed from Science Fiction

With the unemployment rate hovering at ten percent and the stock market melting down, it’s a scary time to think about the future. Especially if you’re unemployed yourself, or worried about losing your job. But science fiction has the answer! We’ve scoured science fiction stories to find some strategies that could help you to survive…

10 Villains Who Changed Sides (But Stayed Cool)

Everybody knows that villains are cooler than heroes — it’s just the way things are. But if a villain hangs around long enough, sometimes he or she gets reformed and joins the good guys. Usually, this results in a tragic loss of coolness. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Sometimes, a villain can…

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The Definitive History of Science Fiction and Fantasy Cop Shows

This fall’s television offerings include Grimm, a fantasy take on the police procedural in which a homicide detective must protect humanity from fairytale evil. And Terry Pratchett has a new procedural on the way, set in his Discworld universe. As original as these ideas might seem, television has been combining police drama and science fiction…

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In The Slime People, Subterrestrial reptilian slime men invade Los Angeles with a wall of solidified fog-and spears. Hordak uses a mind-controlling slime pit to sap He-Man of his will in the Masters of the Universe series. Hulk adversary The Glob was formerly petty criminal and escaped convict Joe Timms, until he drowned in a…

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Magic: The Gathering is full of slime creatures of all kinds, but the Mwonvuli Ooze is a particularly evocative example. In an episode of the Super Mario Bros Super Show, Luigi gets possessed by a slimy spirit, but Ernie Hudson shows up to lend a helping hand. The Rutans, from the Doctor Who serial “The…

Slime Monsters 26-50

The Vermicious Knids, from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator, are a species of genocidal and amorphous egg-shaped aliens from the planet Vermes. They’re famous for shaping themselves into the word, “Scram” before they attack. The Vom, from Alan Dean Foster’s Plip and Flinx novel Bloodhype, is an ancient world-killing blob guarded by…

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The Psychomagnothermic Slime from Ghostbusters II, is a neon pink, powerful psycho-reactive that responds to human’s emotional states. Vigo the Carpathian uses it to harness his power by feeding it New York City’s negative emotions. The Ghostbusters turn the tides and use it to bring the Statue of Liberty to life, after playing it Jackie…

Slime Monsters

103 Slime Monsters. Ivan Ooze (Paul Freeman) is the principal villain of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie. He traps Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa inside a snow globe on the moon and controls an army of birdmen he calls “Tengu Warriors”, created from his own snot. He was killed in outer space after the…

Slime Monsters

103 Slime Monsters— Ivan Ooze (Paul Freeman) is the principal villain of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie. He traps Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa inside a snow globe on the moon and controls an army of birdmen he calls “Tengu Warriors”, created from his own snot. He was killed in outer space after the…

Slime Monsters

103 Slime Monsters— Ivan Ooze (Paul Freeman) is the principal villain of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie. He trapped Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa inside a snow globe on the moon, and controls an army of birdmen that he calls “Tengu Warriors”, created from his own snot. Ooze was killed in outer space after…

Slime Monsters

103 Slime Monsters. Ivan Ooze (Paul Freeman) is the principal villain of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie. He traps Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa inside a snow globe on the moon and controls an army of birdmen he calls “Tengu Warriors”, created from his own snot. He was killed in outer space after the…

Slime Monsters

103 Slime Monsters. Ivan Ooze (Paul Freeman) is the principal villain of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie. He traps Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa inside a snow globe on the moon and controls an army of birdmen he calls “Tengu Warriors”, created from his own snot. He was killed in outer space after the…

Slime Monsters

Slime Monsters— Ivan Ooze (Paul Freeman) is the principal villain of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie. He trapped Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa inside a snow globe on the moon, and controls an army of birdmen that he calls “Tengu Warriors”, created from his own snot. Ooze was killed in outer space after the…