Aliens

The director of The Thing reveals the alien’s secret backstory

While writing and shooting the prequel to John Carpenter’s ice-cold horror story The Thing, director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. had a chance to explore the original movie’s backstory. Find out how and why the thing crashed on Earth in our exclusive interview. Was The Thing always going to be a prequel movie? Or did it…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 13

The 10 most deranged Alien crossover stories

Xenomorphs are the (giant, deadly, and acid-filled) cockroaches of the universe, so it’s no surprise they’ve encountered such famous superheroes as Batman and Green Lantern. Here are ten occasions the Aliens invaded someone else’s franchise. 10.) Alien Vs. Predator Vs. Arnold Schwarzenegger (1994) Chances are if you didn’t see the AVP films, you intentionally avoided…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Oct 12

Read a 7-page preview of IDW’s zombies, aliens, and demons comic book Infestation: Outbreak

IDW has given us an exclusive sneak peek of the fourth and final issue of their monster mash miniseries Infestation: Outbreak. The issue hit stands Wednesday, October 12. Here’s the solicitation from IDW: Infestation: Outbreak #4 (of 4) Chris Ryall & Tom Waltz (w) o David Messina (a) o Davide Furno (c) There’s action comics……

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Oct 9

R.I.P. Derrick Bell, Creator of One of Science Fiction’s Scariest Thought Experiments

Derrick Bell is primarily known as a pioneering law professor who helped improve civil rights in America. But he also wrote one of the most disturbing thought experiments in science fiction, which later became an HBO TV special. In “The Space Traders,” aliens arrive and offer the United States “enough gold to retire the national…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Oct 6

Theologian asks government-funded conference, “Did Jesus die for Klingons too?”

What would the discovery of an alien civilization mean for the most basic tenets of Christianity? This question was explored last Saturday at the 100 Year Starship Symposium in Orlando, Florida. At this DARPA-sponsored event, theologian Christian Weidemann of Ruhr-University Bochum attempted to square the messianic salvation of mankind with an endless galaxy rife with…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 4

Can The Thing match John Carpenter’s sense of dread? Four new clips give us hope.

The best part about John Carpenter’s The Thing was the excruciating paranoia. When you’re fighting an alien that copies its prey perfectly, everyone is a potential threat. Thank goodness the new prequel to the 1982 classic has paranoia and slow burn tension in spades. Find out for yourself, with these four new clips! The Thing…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 3

Dissect the alien body of The Thing in this new batch of high-res stills

We’ve got a batch of super detailed photos from the prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing (also titled The Thing). So take a look at what the beast looked like right after it emerged from the ice block. Could this be the original version of The Thing? Or is it just another poor mutated beast…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 30

New Thing poster reveals the downed alien spacecraft from Carpenter’s original

If you remember the first few seconds of John Carpenter’s original The Thing, a ship crash-landed from outer space burying itself under the snow in Antarctica. Behold that same space ship, revealed in this Russian poster for Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s prequel, also titled The Thing. [via Coming Soon]

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 28

New Aliens game lets you recreate Bishop’s knife stunt

Alien Infestation has raised the bar for cool easter eggs. Apparently there’s a mini-game hidden inside the handheld game, where the player can recreate Bishop’s fancy knife trick with the stylus. But does Bill Paxton scream when you miss? This little image was released inside Official Nintendo Magazine, and it’s awesome for 2 reasons. One:…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 27

The webcomic Forming recounts the origin of civilization with aliens, gods, and dick jokes

What if the Bible, Greek myths, and Zoroastrianism all contained true tales of the birth of human civilization? What if aliens discovered primitive humans, but couldn’t keep it in their pants? Forming tells the crude and cosmic tale of humanity’s origins. Cartoonist (and Adventure Time storyboard artist) Jesse Moynihan spins a strange story that pulls…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Sep 17

Watch the first trailer for the Timecrimes director’s new alien invasion movie!

Check out the brand new trailer for the alien invasion movie from Nacho Vigalondo (better known for his time-bendy movie Timecrimes.) It features a crashing hangover, the aftermath of a one-night stand… and aliens attacking in four-mile-wide spaceships. Extraterrestre, which will be premiering at TIFF, stars Michelle Jenner and Carlos Areces. Here’s the synopsis: Julio…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 9

The first clip from The Thing prequel reveals the revamped alien monster

Watch Lost’s Mr. Eko get the ever loving crap scared out of him, in the first ever clip from The Thing prequel. Look closely and you can see the “original” form of the alien as well. We say original in quotes, because we’re not really sure if that’s the first ever form of this body…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 8

Did Close Encounters of the Third Kind launch post-modernism?

That’s what the Guardian claims in a new article today. Steven Spielberg’s seminal 1977 film eschewed the rationality that had been science fiction’s hallmark, in favor of an unexplained brush with the transcendent, which mostly takes place in suburbia. Instead of figuring stuff out, Richard Dreyfuss’ character starts creating weird modern art, out of materials…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 5

In Space, Everyone Can Hear You Scream: A Video Compilation

Whether you’ve just run into a radioactive space mutant or fallen into a pool of flesh-eating gases, a solid scream is a handy tool for any space horror arsenal. In honor of Apollo 18 beating Shark Night 3D at the weekend box office, check out our video tribute to gasps, shrieks, and bloodcurdling screams. This…

Movies Lauren Davis Sep 5

Prometheus set pics channel Star Wars a little bit

A collection of new Prometheus set pics shows off some of the futuristic rigs this space horror film will be serving up. One interesting “lifter” looks like the great grandfather to the power loader from Aliens, but with a touch of the AT-AT walkers from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. The images from a…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 29

In this week’s Cult Movie Worship, find out why “We Ate the Children Last”

Behold one man’s tribute to the unknown: a 30-foot UFO that was constructed by alien hands! Watch the documentary about it along with a new horrifically titled short “We Ate the Children Last.” Welcome To Planet Earth Meet Jody Pendarvis and his (multiple) UFOs, which was only built with two “human” hands. And he’s not…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 21

Watch Thor and Captain America tag team a pack of bad guys on the set of The Avengers

Brand new set footage from Joss Whedon’s Avengers movie is finally showing the gang teaming up together. Watch Captain America and Thor tackle a pac of motion-captured baddies, get thrown out a window, and wield the mighty Mjölnir. Here’s the latest on-set sneak peek from the Cleveland set. Keep watching all the way until the…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 19

Could global warming lead to alien intervention? Scientists say yes.

The unchecked rise of greenhouse gasses could spell destruction for the human race — but not in the way you might expect. In a recently published paper, a NASA scientist speculates that rising levels of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere could attract unwanted attention from intelligent extraterrestrial life. The report, written by Shawn Domagal-Goldman —…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 19

The most awesome UFO video you’ll see today

Sure it’s fake, but who cares when it looks this cool? Unlike your usual UFO vid, this one is in perfect focus — though there is a bit of Blair Witch-style shakycam and panting. So far no word on what this is, but it looks a lot like a UFO vid from Britain that came…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 18

Is Babylon 5 gearing up for a big comeback?

Is Babylon 5 in the midst of a big comeback? The original Alfred Bester, Walter Koenig, spilled the beans on creator J. Michael Straczynski’s new plans to bring the series back. According to Trek Movie, Koenig (who is probably best known as Pavel Chekov from Star Trek) appeared at the Las Vegas Star Trek convention,…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 18

The director of The Thing reveals the alien’s secret backstory

The 10 most deranged Alien crossover stories

Read a 7-page preview of IDW’s zombies, aliens, and demons comic book Infestation: Outbreak

R.I.P. Derrick Bell, Creator of One of Science Fiction’s Scariest Thought Experiments

Theologian asks government-funded conference, “Did Jesus die for Klingons too?”

Can The Thing match John Carpenter’s sense of dread? Four new clips give us hope.

Dissect the alien body of The Thing in this new batch of high-res stills

New Thing poster reveals the downed alien spacecraft from Carpenter’s original

New Aliens game lets you recreate Bishop’s knife stunt

The webcomic Forming recounts the origin of civilization with aliens, gods, and dick jokes

Watch the first trailer for the Timecrimes director’s new alien invasion movie!

The first clip from The Thing prequel reveals the revamped alien monster

Did Close Encounters of the Third Kind launch post-modernism?

In Space, Everyone Can Hear You Scream: A Video Compilation

Prometheus set pics channel Star Wars a little bit

In this week’s Cult Movie Worship, find out why “We Ate the Children Last”

Watch Thor and Captain America tag team a pack of bad guys on the set of The Avengers

Could global warming lead to alien intervention? Scientists say yes.

The most awesome UFO video you’ll see today

Is Babylon 5 gearing up for a big comeback?

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