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It’s All Carnies and Pearl Jam References On Heroes

If Heroes doesn’t deliver lesbians, it delivers a roiling mass of carnies who throw knives and wear petticoats to dig ditches. That’s what happened last night anyway, when we met the flannel-wearing, chest-hair-revealing cub version of Sylar. Spoilers ahead! Not only did we get amazing scenes like this one above, where Sylar learns all about…

io9 Annalee Newitz

40+ Lurid, Bizarre Science Fiction Dream Sequences

Science fiction takes place in a world beyond our own reality, but sometimes you need to go just a bit further — into the realm of the crazy, surreal dream sequence. Here are 40 or so of our absolute favorites. Actually, my absolute favorite of all time has to be this weird sequence from Futureworld,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Dream Sequences: 1980s

Night Of The Comet This is that rare example of a dream inside a dream: she wakes up, but then it turns out she’s still dreaming. Whoa. Aliens Another all-time classic, and a great fake-out. Brazil Just one of many amazing dreams in this breathtaking film. An American Werewolf In London Somebody please explain to…

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Dream Sequences: 1920s Thru 1970s

Eraserhead This whole movie is ultra-dreamlike, but there’s a whole stretch where he falls asleep staring at the radiator, and there’s a tiny singing woman inside. Doctor Who, “The Time Monster” Part 1 Stock footage of eruptions! Battle axes! Glowing crystals! It’s all a warning that the 1970s’ greatest Doctor Who villain is back in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Dream Sequences: 2000s

Lost: “Everybody Hates Hugo” I love everything about Hurley’s character, except for the weird food thing. In any case, this is a pretty great moment, chicken costume and all. True Blood Sookie’s awesome dream romp with Eric. Equilibrium Christian Bale is a future cop, dedicated to stamping out emotion. But he secretly dreams about his…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Dream Sequences: 1990s

Babylon 5: “All Alone In The Night” “We have always been here. Your mind just wasn’t quiet enough to hear us.” Awesome. Third Rock From The Sun: “Nightmare On Dick Street” The High Commander and his squad have been human long enough that they start having dreams. Including this truly weird, amazing musical number. Star…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Edgar Allan Poe’s Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne

Many were shocked when it was revealed that Falcon Heene’s fictitious balloon ride was nothing more than a fame-grabbing hoax, but this is hardly the first time that a fake tale of a high-flying balloon captured people’s imaginations. In 1844, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a detailed piece about famed balloonist Monck Mason’s amazing journey across…

io9 Lauren Davis

Joss Whedon’s X-Men: What We Didn’t See, Apparently

Ahead of next week’s public screening of their new Astonishing X-Men motion comic, Marvel have released the oddest trailer for the Joss Whedon-written project yet. Click through for details. The official press release accompanying this new clip reads, Marvel is also proud to present MarvelFest NYC 2009, an all-new interactive outdoor experience in New York…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Reboot Is Getting Rebooted?

Rainmaker Studios, the creators of Reboot, claim to be working on a reboot of this Saturday morning TV show. Update: turns out it’s a movie reboot, check out the teaser trailer, Reboot! [via Topless Robot]

io9 Meredith Woerner

Marc Ecko/Timex Star Wars Watches: That’s Right, We’re Fashion Plates Now

Where The Wild Things clothes, the insanely popular Star Wars hoodies and now these very slick Star Wars designer watches. Let’s hope this means Tron unitards will be back in style soon. Check out the Stormtrooper and Boba Fett watches, and there’s also an R2D2 watch on the way. Well done, Ecko.

io9 Meredith Woerner

Napoleon Dynamite Was Originally a UFO Movie

Napoleon Dynamite, paranormal investigator? The husband-wife team behind the strange slice-of-life comedy reveal that the original idea for Napoleon Dynamite involved a very different plot, with crop circles, an alien conspiracy, and Napoleon fleeing from government agents. After a screening for their upcoming film Gentlemen Broncos, Jared and Jerusha Hess, co-writers of both Gentlemen Broncos…

Movies Lauren Davis

Bella Does The Shirtless Werewolf Bar Mitzvah

Behold the first real clip from New Moon with bare chested lip licking puppy men and their giant CG puppy halves. It’s Bella versus the man-wall of Native American teen flesh. Which means, it’s time to play “Caption That Twilight.” You know the rules, the person who comes up with the best screen grab caption…

io9 Meredith Woerner

ABC Invades Airspace To Promote V

ABC’s controversial V reboot may be rumored to be in trouble before it’s even started, but that’s not stopping the network from aiming sky high when it comes to promotional plans for the show. And we mean that literally. Starting on Friday and running until the premiere of ABC’s revival of the alien invasion series,…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Shadow People Haunt the Darkest Corners of Your Dreams

Juha Arvid Helminen unnerves with his Shadow People, a dreamily creepy series of black-on-black photos that evokes The Invisible Man and Silent Hill’s Pyramid Head monsters. His black-wrapped subjects are amassing an army to march through your nightmares. Juha Arvid Helminen [DeviantArt via Coilhouse]

io9 Lauren Davis

Bionic Hand Lets the Wearer Feel, Not Just Touch

Current prostheses allow individuals who have lost a hand to grasp and hold objects, but regaining their sense of touch has been out of the question. But a new robotic hand is giving its wearers a new tactile sensation. A team of scientists in Italy and Sweden have been developing a sophisticated robotic hand, with…

io9 Lauren Davis

Beautiful Scientist Auto-tune Jam Will Make You Smile, Possibly Sing

Check out this amazing collection of autotuned scientists from past amazing series and old cosmic sermons remixed and put into beautiful melody. Sing with the mental giants and TV scientists from all different eras and know: "We Are All Connected."

io9 Meredith Woerner

Ian McKellen Is A Sick Torture Genius In New Trailer For “The Prisoner”

Let the mind games begin. In this exclusive trailer from AMC’s miniseries remake of The Prisoner, see the many ways Number Two (McKellen) plans on messing with Number Six (Jim Caviezel). Plus, is that a baby Number Two? We’re all really excited about Ian McKellen in this role, you really couldn’t ask for a better…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Law Definitely Not Getting His God On For Thor

Celebrity site Gossipcop has already put to rest the idea of Jude Law starring in Marvel Studios’ Thor, quoting a rep for the actor as saying the rumors are not true. Equally unlikely, according to the site, is DeNiro’s involvement. https://gizmodo.com/robert-deniro-and-jude-law-class-up-marvels-thor-5384396

io9 Graeme McMillan

Zombie Pin-Up Girls Want You for Your Brains

Not to be outdone by Nerdcore’s horror-themed calendar, the folks behind My Zombie Pin-Up are offering 12 months undead beauties. Sure, the girls show less skin, but they more than make up for it in blood and guts. More images are available at My Zombie Pin-Up, where the 2010 calendar is on sale for $19.99.…

io9 Lauren Davis

2012 Hysteria Driving Teens To Consider Suicide?

Top scientists are stepping forward to dispel rumors that the world is ending in 2012, combating a wave of Internet hysteria that coincides with the marketing frenzy for Roland Emmerich‘s rivers-of-schlock masterpiece 2012. One NASA scientist with a prominent website, David Morrison, says he used to get a question a week about the world ending…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

It’s All Carnies and Pearl Jam References On Heroes

40+ Lurid, Bizarre Science Fiction Dream Sequences

Dream Sequences: 1980s

Dream Sequences: 1920s Thru 1970s

Dream Sequences: 2000s

Dream Sequences: 1990s

Edgar Allan Poe’s Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne

Joss Whedon’s X-Men: What We Didn’t See, Apparently

Reboot Is Getting Rebooted?

Marc Ecko/Timex Star Wars Watches: That’s Right, We’re Fashion Plates Now

Napoleon Dynamite Was Originally a UFO Movie

Bella Does The Shirtless Werewolf Bar Mitzvah

ABC Invades Airspace To Promote V

Shadow People Haunt the Darkest Corners of Your Dreams

Bionic Hand Lets the Wearer Feel, Not Just Touch

Beautiful Scientist Auto-tune Jam Will Make You Smile, Possibly Sing

Ian McKellen Is A Sick Torture Genius In New Trailer For “The Prisoner”

Law Definitely Not Getting His God On For Thor

Zombie Pin-Up Girls Want You for Your Brains

2012 Hysteria Driving Teens To Consider Suicide?

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

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