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What Should Happen in Cloverfield 2: The Reclovening?

Box office for Cloverfield this past weekend fell 68% from its opening weekend, but the giant monster flick made so much in its first week that talk is still in the air about a sequel. The question is, where do we go from here? If it’s inevitable that we’ll get The Reclovening, what do you…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Mutant Pussy Attacks in Raw, Brilliant Satire “Teeth”

In the tradition of Claire from Heroes, and Buffy of vampire slayage, the main character in the movie Teeth has developed a special power that allows her to survive high school. Deep inside her vagina, Dawn has a set of shark’s teeth that will bite off anything she doesn’t want in there. This movie, opening…

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Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in “Robo Vampire”

So, okay. A bunch of Asian hopping vampires have teamed up with a bunch of evil drug lords and are killing people and doing evil things. And then, dum dum dum! A mysterious Android Robot is created out of the maimed body of a former narcotics agent. He looks just like Robocop! Except for, well,…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Ramping Up for Wondercon

If you love science fiction and comic books, and you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, there’s nothing more pleasing than Wondercon. From February 22 to 24, San Francisco’s Moscone Center will be packed with cool artists, fat longboxes full of tasty comic treats, and panels about everything from the new season of Jericho to…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Which Terminator Would Kick the Asses of All the Others?

Over at Popular Mechanics, there’s a maniacally detailed comparison of every Terminator from all the movies and the new TV show — including helpful information on how to defeat them. Writer Erik Sofge even gives you information on how each Terminator was made, and speculates about its level of A.I. So which Terminator comes out…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Steampunk LEGO Steam Speeder Spurs Swooning Sensations

The Steam Wars contest keeps exciting us with new concepts after amazing examples like the TIE Fighter and X-Wing, the Pod Racer and the Imperial Shuttle. Here’s the Steam-Powered Speedy Bicycle, which promises to be “the Empire’s Finest.” In its simplicity, it’s probably my favorite so far. Someone should get Lucas and LEGO to do…

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Repli-Kate Teaches You How Genetic Engineering Really Works

The 2001 movie Repli-Kate is so many things: a ripoff of Weird Science, a comedy of cloning, and the only movie I’ve ever seen where Eugene Levy yells “PENIS PENIS PENIS” really loudly, over and over, for reasons I can’t even remember. Here’s a great scene where one of the gene geeks uses his amazing…

Movies Annalee Newitz

The Scariest Settings Ever Created in Scifi Movies

Welcome to another installment of Horrorhead, a column where we talk about the intersection of horror and scifi. Anyone who saw Alien as a kid knows that the smashed-up alien ship where Ripley’s crew first finds the alien is one of the scariest places ever. It’s basically a haunted house set in space, with its…

Movies Annalee Newitz

io9 Talks to “The Signal” Directors About the Secret Techno-Evils of Atlanta

The crazy-making static in The Signal is actually just making people act on impulses they already feel, say directors David Bruckner and Jacob Gentry. And some of the weirdest moments in the techno-horror movie come from people struggling to act civilized while the Signal messes them up. We talked to two out of three directors…

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A Better Look At Stephen Chow’s “E.T.” Reimagining

We’ve been hoping that CJ7 will spark a new wave of Chinese science fiction films, and this newly released trailer definitely shows a ton of potential. Stephen Chow is abandoning the kung-fu comedy that made Kung-Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer so successful, in favor of cute alien critters. Mild spoilers below. https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-stephen-chows-alien-creature-335369 This trailer shows…

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It’s a Shiny, Dancy, Pop-Fascist Future in “The Apple”

Welcome to the dystopian disco future in The Apple, where the evil Mr. Boogalow of Boogalow International Music (BIM) has mind-controlled the masses to be evil pop music worshipers. An innocent folk duo from Saskatchewan (with real Canadian prairie accents!) are drawn into his glittery spell, and the girl half of the duo, Bibi, becomes…

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Plant People Of The Eco-Apocalypse

The movie adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s obscure short story Chrysalis has released some new production photos, including this awesome image of a guy being swallowed by the slimy green chrysalis of the movie’s title. And the movie’s concept art by D. Hirajeta is gorgeous. But is there enough substance in Bradbury’s 60-year-old short story to…

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LEGO Contest Picks Up Steam, Pod Racer, London Imperial Shuttle and Jeff Vader

Some of you asked for it when we showed you the LEGO Steampunk Tie Fighter and here it is: a LEGO Steampunk Pod Racer, the Darling Apollo IV driven by Trenton Telgaard. Whoever that is. It’s also part of the LEGO Steam Wars contest, like the brilliant London Imperial Shuttle after the jump (right next…

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Batcave Home Theater is an Ideal Location to Make Out With Catwoman

Q: What could possibly be better than making out with Catwoman? A: Making out with Catwoman in a Batcave inspired home theater. Although the guys at Elite HTS may not be able to help you pinpoint Catwoman, they have done a hell of a job at recreating the Batcave for your movie viewing/making out pleasure.…

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Theories on the Whisper at the End of Cloverfield

Spoilers ahead, dorks. So Josh writes in to say that he’s deciphered the whisper at the end of Cloverfield by doing some sort of fancy backwards-unmasking thing. Here is an unmasked, de-backwardsized MP3 of the whisper — he claims it says “it’s still alive,” but all I could hear was “ppphhhh phhhh huuuuh.” Other theories…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Traci Lords and Plughead Do the Cybernasty

Cyberpunk may be in decline, but freaky cybersex with Traci Lords never goes out of style. In this completely inexplicable but utterly entertaining scene from Circuitry Man II, evil Plughead tries to wrest some information out of Lords’ brain with what looks like an audio jack jammed into her neck. They keep moaning and whining…

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The Sterile Perfection of The Signal’s Terminus City

The new techno-horror film The Signal takes place in an imaginary city called Terminus City, where conformity and Wal-Mart culture reign supreme… until a crazy electronic noise makes everybody go bonkers. Directors David Bruckner and Jacob Gentry tell io9 that Terminus is based on the new Atlanta, filled with corporate live-work developments and boxy housing.…

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It Came From The Red States!

It’s another installment of Entropist, a scifi culture column by futurist design maven Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDG BLOG. What would it be like to make horror films for the Red States? Maybe we’ve seen too many mutants warped by environmental damage and dioxin exposure, enough of government conspiracy flicks featuring Dick Cheney stand-ins and…

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Nevermind the Monster — Cloverfield Is All About 9/11

All this rampant speculation about the Cloverfield monster has been distraction from the real thrill of the movie: Getting to watch a reenactment of 9/11 without all the scary political implications and the guilt over one’s fascination with mass death. Like the disturbing original Gojira from 1954, Cloverfield is a monster movie whose purpose is…

Movies Annalee Newitz

The Rise And Fall Of Cyberpunk

Maybe cyberpunk isn’t quite dead, but it definitely peaked a while back. There are way fewer books and movies with cyberpunk themes coming out now than there were in the golden age of the 80s and mid-90s. And we’ve got the statistics to prove it. We counted up the cyberpunk books and movies for every…

Movies Charliejane

What Should Happen in Cloverfield 2: The Reclovening?

Mutant Pussy Attacks in Raw, Brilliant Satire “Teeth”

Fake Robocop vs. Hopping Vampires in “Robo Vampire”

Ramping Up for Wondercon

Which Terminator Would Kick the Asses of All the Others?

Steampunk LEGO Steam Speeder Spurs Swooning Sensations

Repli-Kate Teaches You How Genetic Engineering Really Works

The Scariest Settings Ever Created in Scifi Movies

io9 Talks to “The Signal” Directors About the Secret Techno-Evils of Atlanta

A Better Look At Stephen Chow’s “E.T.” Reimagining

It’s a Shiny, Dancy, Pop-Fascist Future in “The Apple”

Plant People Of The Eco-Apocalypse

LEGO Contest Picks Up Steam, Pod Racer, London Imperial Shuttle and Jeff Vader

Batcave Home Theater is an Ideal Location to Make Out With Catwoman

Theories on the Whisper at the End of Cloverfield

Traci Lords and Plughead Do the Cybernasty

The Sterile Perfection of The Signal’s Terminus City

It Came From The Red States!

Nevermind the Monster — Cloverfield Is All About 9/11

The Rise And Fall Of Cyberpunk

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