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Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme

Over on MetaFilter, people have been a little concerned about the structure and purpose of our current monster smackdown, featuring cage matches between popular monsters. Commenter robocop is bleeding proposes an alternative to our (admittedly shallow) monster measurement contest. He writes: The io9 poll is flawed. It’s a popularity contest, pure and simple, an attempt…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Twilight Returns For A Day

Worried that DVD won’t be enough to bring you up to speed on Edward and Bella’s vampire romance before The Twilight Saga: New Moon opens next month? You’re in luck: Summit are re-releasing Twilight in theaters… for one day only. Twilight will hit 2000 theaters again on November 19th, the day before New Moon opens…

io9 Graeme McMillan

A Nightmare of Genetically-Modified Animals

In her biotech apocalypse novel Oryx and Crake, author Margaret Atwood depicts a future where genetic engineering has warped the animal kingdom into “pigoons” (pictured), “snats,” glowing bunnies, and worse. Now an artist has captured her dystopia in images. The sequel to Orxy and Crake, called The Year of the Flood, came out this month.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

You Can Learn From One Of Science Fiction’s Greatest Biologists Online

Joan Slonczewski is one of the few science-fiction authors who’s also a biology professor. She’s teaching a Biology In Science Fiction course at Kenyon College, using Tribbles, Dune and Jurassic Park to teach biological principles, and you can join in. The class’ syllabus, quizzes and related links are online, and so are the study guide,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Anthony Hopkins to Play Odin? Charlize Theron Confirmed for Mad Max. And the Tenth Doctor Tries to Stay Dry

Thor gets a famous father, and Charlize Theron is really headed to Mad Max. Also, many new Avatar images, a clip from Doctor Who, and a key character joins True Blood. Plus, Powers, Lost, Fringe, V, SGU, and New Moon. Thor Bad news for Brian Blessed fans: Anthony Hopkins is in negotiations to play Odin,…

io9 Lauren Davis

Who Knew Oral Sex Could Be So Awful

Reanimator: The evil scientist Dr. Hill has been decapitated… and then his head and body have both been brought back to life. And now he’s got the Dean’s daughter, also a scientist, just where he wants her. So he decides to, umm… give her some head. As Annalee said when she first posted this clip,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Misc Scary Sex

Teeth: Tobey tries to rape Dawn. And thanks to her vagina dentata, he gets exactly what he deserves. And maybe a little bit more. Another excellent severed penis prop is just barely glimpsed. Shivers: This early David Cronenberg movie features a nasty parasite that can only be spread by sexual contact, and in the end,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Insemination That’s Horribly Artificial

Rosemary’s Baby: Rosemary eats some drugged chocolate mousse (or mouse, as everyone keeps insisting on calling it) and soon afterwards, she’s passed out a ton of Satanists are tying her up and making nasty satanic love to her, including inscribing weird symbols on her body. In spite of all the campy, silly elements, this scene…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Sex With Monsters

The Howling: Bill gets bitten by a werewolf and sex-starved Marsha offers herself to him. They have mad, sweaty, howly sex, and she even licks his werewolf bite, which seems like a really bad idea. Soon afterwards, he starts drooling. Lots and lots of drool. During sex. And then he turns into a wolf, and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Eternity Trap

io9 Lauren Davis

Scariest Surgical Instruments Of All Time!

If you think your gynecologist is awful, just be glad you don’t visit twin OB/GYNs Beverly and Elliot Mantle (Jeremy Irons.) They become obsessed with mutant women, and in this famous scene, Beverly unveils his custom-made surgical tools for mutants. Dead Ringers isn’t the most famous, or the most graphic, of David Cronenberg‘s films, but…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Worst Nanotech Threat Isn’t Gray Goo – It’s Black Lung

The “killer app” of current nanotechnology is the carbon nanotube, which could revolutionize circuit boards and other technologies. But these nanoscopic tubes also cause a new kind of industrial disease that could scar your lungs and give you cancer. Carbon nanotubes have been proposed for use in everything from space elevators to synthetic muscles to…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Adorable But Horrible: 26 Cute Critters You’ll Want to Avoid

Horror isn’t always slimy and grotesque; some of the most frightening monsters come in the cutest packages. We list the fluffy, wide-eyed, and downright adorable critters that want to scare you, eat you, or enslave you for all time. Additional reporting by Josh Snyder. Gossamer (Looney Tunes) Cute? Look at him. He’s basically a hairy…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy

The same things that terrify us can also make us die laughing, and as long as there’s been horror, there’s been silly horror-comedy. Check out our history of the silliest horror movies of all time. Note: This is not intended to be an exhaustive list, just a rundown of the eras in horror comedy. Feel…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

In France, Brown Bears Desperately Need Women

The brown bear population has been declining in parts of France for decades, but now a group of scientists say they have an unorthodox solution. Just bring in more female bears. But not for the reasons you might think. Normally relocating bears is frowned on as a way of saving populations. Conventional environmental science says…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Which Overused Trope Are We Sickest Of?

There’s nothing scarier than deja vu: that feeling that everything we’ve seen before will keep coming back over and over again, until your head dissolves. Which overused trope are you most sick of: zombies, vampires, alt-universes, post-apocalyptic worlds or steampunk? Which overexposed trope are we most sick of?(polls)

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

DIY Star Wars Costumes

Whip up a quick Star Wars Halloween costume for yourself, your younglings and even your mutt with crafty tips from fans across the galaxy. May the Force be with your glue gun! It’s almost Halloween, but you still need an idea for a DIY costume that will be the envy of all fanboys and girls…

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A Rogue’s Gallery of Haunted Spaceships

Though spaceships exist firmly in the realm of science and rationality, that doesn’t mean they can’t be invaded by fantastical visions and spooky ghosts. Here’s a gallery of space vessels whose crews aren’t entirely of this universe. As I was putting together this gallery, I noticed a few themes in the depictions of haunted spaceships.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Smackdown Day 4: Witches Vs. Werewolves

It’s all about curses in today’s Smackdown, as we ponder the eternal question, which is worse? If the curse makes you grow hair in strange places, large teeth and somewhat lupine, is it worse to be the cursed or curser? After yesterday’s surprise (to me) victory proved that it is, apparently, the Season of The…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Are Fringe And Heroes Circling The Drain?

Good news and bad news folks. First, the good news: Heroes may have finally wrung out its last plot twist. But sadly, Fringe may be the next to fall as well. Airlock Alpha says inside sources at NBC claim that the writers for Heroes are being told to prepare themselves for the series finale this…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme

Twilight Returns For A Day

A Nightmare of Genetically-Modified Animals

You Can Learn From One Of Science Fiction’s Greatest Biologists Online

Anthony Hopkins to Play Odin? Charlize Theron Confirmed for Mad Max. And the Tenth Doctor Tries to Stay Dry

Who Knew Oral Sex Could Be So Awful

Misc Scary Sex

Insemination That’s Horribly Artificial

Sex With Monsters

The Eternity Trap

Scariest Surgical Instruments Of All Time!

Worst Nanotech Threat Isn’t Gray Goo – It’s Black Lung

Adorable But Horrible: 26 Cute Critters You’ll Want to Avoid

The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy

In France, Brown Bears Desperately Need Women

Which Overused Trope Are We Sickest Of?

DIY Star Wars Costumes

A Rogue’s Gallery of Haunted Spaceships

Smackdown Day 4: Witches Vs. Werewolves

Are Fringe And Heroes Circling The Drain?

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