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Monster Squad‘s Star Remembers Feeding the Mummy and Other Tales From Making the Cult Classic

A group of friends teams up to defeat the greatest collection of villains ever assembled. No, it’s not a comic book movie, it’s The Monster Squad, Fred Dekker and Shane Black’s 1987 cult film starring Dracula, Wolfman, the Mummy, and Frankenstein’s monster. Andre Gower played Sean, a monster-obsessed middle schooler who, along with his friends…

Movies Germain Lussier

Ryan Murphy Finally Decides 13 Seasons of American Horror Story Are Not Enough

It’s American horror stories, only bite-sized. Ryan Murphy has announced that he’s working on an American Horror Story spinoff series, tentatively called American Horror Stories, that’ll focus on standalone horrors instead of the usual season-long themes. Murphy posted an image on Instagram of an American Horror Story cast meetup, which included current AHS stars and…

io9 Beth Elderkin

6 Interesting Ways The Mandalorian Could Handle Boba Fett’s Return

The Mandalorian isn’t just giving us more Baby Yoda than we are probably equipped to deal with when it returns for season two, but seemingly more than a few familiar Star Wars faces. Last week, reports began swirling that one of those faces is the arrival of a specter that has hung over The Mandalorian…

io9 James Whitbrook

An Interrogation Takes a Bizarre Turn in This Clip From Indie Sci-Fi Thriller Proximity

Eric Demeusy is mostly known as a visual effects artist—he won an Emmy for his work on Stranger Things and was nominated for Jessica Jones, and he worked on Game of Thrones too. But he’s also a director (we quite enjoyed his Boba Fett fan film) with his first sci-fi feature on the way, and we’ve…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Here’s What Shanghai Disneyland Looked Like on Its First Day of Reopening

Masks and temperature checks were mandatory, and the usual crowds were nowhere to be seen.

Books & Comics Matt Novak

TNT’s Snowpiercer Is Like an Apocalyptic Law & Order Spin-Off Set on a Train

TNT’s adaptation ofSnowpiercer chugs along similar narrative tracks as both Bong Joon-ho’s film of the same name and Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette’s graphic novel Le Transperceneige, which inspired both live-action stories. Within moments of the TV series’ premiere episode, though, you can see that it’s a train speeding in its own distinct direction in order…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore

A Look at the Roots of The Witcher’s Creepiest Creatures

We all know we’re supposed to toss coins to our witcher, but don’t forget there’s a reason why (it’s not just because Henry Cavill is cool). The witcher is a monster slayer who hunts down and incapacitates creatures from Andrzej Sapkowski’s series—creatures based on actual folklore. Netflix has released an explainer breaking down the reality…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Could Be Eyeing a New Heroine

Michael Douglas wants you to be ready for Ant-Man news. Easing lockdown restrictions in New Zealand could lead to work restarting on Avatar and Lord of the Rings. Plus, get another vampy look at Mark Hamill’s arrival on What We Do in the Shadows, and what’s to come on the season finales of both Batwoman…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

This Family Spent Quarantine Recreating the Dinner Party Scene From Beetlejuice

Okay, all of us spending most of our time at home are getting a bit stir crazy. Some of us cope by getting depressed, sleeping a lot, and watching garbage on TV. Some of us, well, we start reenacting movie scenes. YouTuber Gelsey Laurie and her father have taken the latter route, spending their time…

Movies Julie Muncy

Sarah Silverman Will Play the First Lady Santa Claus in Santa Inc.

Gender equity is coming to the North Pole. In a recent press release, HBO Max announced its new animated series, Santa Inc., an eight-episode production starring Sarah Silverman and Seth Rogen. Helmed by writer and showrunner Alexandra Rushfield (Shrill) and produced by Rogen’s Point Grey Pictures production company, it will star Sarah Silverman as the…

io9 Julie Muncy

Watch the Cast and Crew of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Discuss the Show’s Final Episode

“Victory and Death” was a banger of an episode, a perfect send-off for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and a bonafide tragedy in its own right. I get emotional just thinking about it. Now, see what Dave Filoni and the show’s stars have to say about its end. In a video put out by Star…

Movies Julie Muncy

CBS Picks Up a New Silence of the Lambs TV Show and a Reboot of The Equalizer Starring Queen Latifah

It’s the time of year when, under normal conditions, we start to hear about new shows coming next fall or winter, and while things are anything but normal CBS is continuing the fine tradition by picking up three shows for the fall, a couple without even a pilot. Most interesting to io9 readers is probably…

Television Julie Muncy

M. Night Shyamalan’s Mysterious Next Film Has a Much Less Mysterious Cast

What shocking, unexpected terrors await the people in M. Night Shyamalan’s next film? I can’t say I know. But I do know who’s going to be depicting them. As reported by Variety, M. Night Shyamalan has set the cast for his upcoming, as of yet untitled film for Universal Pictures. The film, which has no…

Movies Julie Muncy

Michael Dougherty Made a Video Tribute to All of the Horror Movies Moments Guiding Him Through the Pandemic

One pretty common response to awful events in real life like the pandemic, and the illness causing it, covid-19, is to relate it to movies. For those of us who are more privileged, media is a key way we brush up with our biggest, most primal terrors. So when authentically scary things happen in reality,…

Movies Julie Muncy

Amazon’s Upload Is Getting Renewed for a Second Season

Patch notes incoming. As revealed in a press release yesterday, Amazon has opted to renew Upload, its comedy about the digital afterlife, for a second season. Like the first season, the show will stream on Amazon Prime. In the presser, creator and director Greg Daniels said, “I am thrilled to continue a great relationship with…

io9 Julie Muncy

Ahsoka Tano Could Have Saved the Republic

The right hero in the wrong place. The story of Ahsoka Tano, the young heroine introduced in Star Wars: The Clone Wars as Anakin Skywalker’s plucky, previously unseen or unmentioned Padawan apprentice, isn’t finished. Her latest in-canon appearance in Star Wars Rebels was open-ended, and rumors suggest very strongly that she’s going to make the…

Movies Julie Muncy

Mike Flanagan Is Returning to the Stephen King Well With an Adaptation of Revival

Mike Flanagan is one of the most successful modern-day adapters of Stephen King, managing to turn Doctor Sleep, a pretty messy novel by any standard, into a fascinating and thoughtful consideration of The Shining and its legacy as a story and a film. So he’s doing the only natural thing and going back for more.…

Movies Julie Muncy

The Release Trailer for Solar Opposites Is a Filthy Alien Take on Suburban Life

From Justin Roiland and somewhere far out of this solar system, Solar Opposites .

Trailers Julie Muncy

Monstrum Is a Creature Feature Filled With Claw Marks and Secretions

What’s better than a period epic filled with martial arts and deadly weapons? A period epic filled with martial arts, deadly weapons, and a giant killer monster, of course. That’s what you get in Monstrum, South Korean director Heo Jong-ho’s Shudder original film coming to the streaming service next week. Set in the 16th century, it…

Trailers Germain Lussier

America’s Ass Leads the Way in the Most Patriotic Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s round-up of the latest in plastic goodness hitting the internet lately. This week, Captain America faces his past in a return to the Figuarts line, you can now grow your own Baby Yoda, and Hot Toys gets into a dangerously retro game with a “brand new” Boba Fett. Check…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski & James Whitbrook

Monster Squad‘s Star Remembers Feeding the Mummy and Other Tales From Making the Cult Classic

Ryan Murphy Finally Decides 13 Seasons of American Horror Story Are Not Enough

6 Interesting Ways The Mandalorian Could Handle Boba Fett’s Return

An Interrogation Takes a Bizarre Turn in This Clip From Indie Sci-Fi Thriller Proximity

Here’s What Shanghai Disneyland Looked Like on Its First Day of Reopening

TNT’s Snowpiercer Is Like an Apocalyptic Law & Order Spin-Off Set on a Train

A Look at the Roots of The Witcher’s Creepiest Creatures

Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Could Be Eyeing a New Heroine

This Family Spent Quarantine Recreating the Dinner Party Scene From Beetlejuice

Sarah Silverman Will Play the First Lady Santa Claus in Santa Inc.

Watch the Cast and Crew of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Discuss the Show’s Final Episode

CBS Picks Up a New Silence of the Lambs TV Show and a Reboot of The Equalizer Starring Queen Latifah

M. Night Shyamalan’s Mysterious Next Film Has a Much Less Mysterious Cast

Michael Dougherty Made a Video Tribute to All of the Horror Movies Moments Guiding Him Through the Pandemic

Amazon’s Upload Is Getting Renewed for a Second Season

Ahsoka Tano Could Have Saved the Republic

Mike Flanagan Is Returning to the Stephen King Well With an Adaptation of Revival

The Release Trailer for Solar Opposites Is a Filthy Alien Take on Suburban Life

Monstrum Is a Creature Feature Filled With Claw Marks and Secretions

America’s Ass Leads the Way in the Most Patriotic Toys of the Week

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