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What Makes Even The Devil Hate Hell? The Bureaucracy

The Devil just wants to buy a few souls and call it a day, but he’s constantly wrapped up in red tape. At least in this short film, he can slip away for a massage—but can he relax even there? The Nether Regions was written by Lesley Farrow and directed by Maria Lee at Wonky…

io9 Lauren Davis Aug 28

Chris Carter Wants To Make 99 Episodes of New Hell Series The After

X-Files creator Chris Carter is back with the strange, post-apocalyptic Amazon series The After. Inspired (loosely) by Dante’s Divine Comedy, Carter boasted that he would like to make 99 episodes, similar to the 99 cantos in the book. Thankfully Amazon has only given him the cash to make eight. After premiering the pilot episode a…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 14

The California wildfires and fire tornadoes look like hell on Earth

This footage capturedby a Fox News video crew shows a firenado raging near Carlsbad. It’s absolutely terrifying but the video taken by some people driving through a road is even worse. It really feels like hell on Earth. The firenado Road through hell Here’s one taken right next to the road, which looks about to…

Sploid Casey Chan May 15

Listen to the Butt Song from Hell written on a 500-year-old painting

One section of Hieronymus Bosch’s massive triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights depicts a hellish chorus singing a song painted on the buttocks of a sinner. Now a musician has transcribed it into modern notation for our asinine listening pleasure. Amelia, a music and information systems student at Oklahoma Christian University, decided to figure out…

io9 Lauren Davis Feb 14

Two souls form a strange friendship on an island in a river to Hell

Like so many other souls living in the world of the webcomic Judecca (NSFW), Sharky lives a shabby life, spending his days in Sisyphean labor and his evenings with too little warmth and too little food in the company of his rabbit roommate, while his own body becomes more like a shark’s. But when a…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Dec 14

Earth’s hellish twin discovered by NASA

For the first time in history, NASA astronomers have “discovered the first Earth-size planet outside the solar system that has a rocky composition like that of Earth.” The technical name is Kepler-78b but they should call it just Hell. Earth’s hellish twin. While the planet has the same mass and size as our home planet,…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Oct 30

13 Places on Earth People Believed Were Entrances to Hell

While in some belief systems, the afterlife can only be accessed by spiritual means, in others, the underworld could be accessed directly from the Earth. Here are 13 real spots that people have thought (and in a few cases, still do) lead straight to the lands of the dead. Photo of diorama from Fengdu by…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 6

The List: U.S. Releases Names of Gitmo Prisoners

Thanks to a New York Times freedom of information request, we can now see (almost) all the names of the prisoners still held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, a dozen years into the War On Terror. “Continued detention” is the future for most of them. http://gawker.com/here-is-a-list-of-everyone-currently-rotting-in-guantan-513892845

Sploid Ken Layne Jun 17

First English Trailer and Clips from Roland Emmerich’s Post-Apocalyptic Hell

Roland Emmerich may have stopped directing apocalyptic films after 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow, but he’s still interested in the apocalypse. At least, Emmerich has produced a new film, Hell. We brought you a German-language trailer back in August, but here are two clips, plus an actual English-language trailer. https://gizmodo.com/trailer-for-roland-emmerichs-hell-in-which-the-sun-swa-5834069 Here’s another clip, and…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders Jun 27

Belief in an angry God is the strongest predictor of a country’s crime rate

When it comes to predicting a country’s crime rate, sociologists typically look at such factors as income inequality and GDP. But new research suggests that a better place to look might be inside the religious beliefs of the population — or more accurately, their belief in Hell and the prospect of eternal damnation. Religion is…

io9 George Dvorsky Jun 20

Spend a lovely day with the kids at Thailand’s Hell torture theme park

90 minutes outside of Bangkok sits the Wang Saen Suk Hell Park, one of several “hell gardens” that can be found throughout Thailand. At this tourist destination, you can pack a picnic and ramble around the charming sculpture garden, which depicts sinners being eviscerated wholesale in the Buddhist underworld. After all, nothing says “sunny weekend…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 5

The Nine Circles Of Hell, As Depicted In LEGO

Here’s a series of play sets that won’t be debuting in the toy aisle anytime soon. Sculptor Mihai Mihu has built this fantastic and creepy nine-part collection of LEGO dioramas based on Dante Alighieri’s Inferno. Witness the Divine Comedy depicted in tiny plastic bricks, from the River Styx to the frozen head of Satan. According…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 12

A Hobbit Guest Star Confirmed. Plus Who Won’t Return in Iron Man 3 and Doctor Who season 7!

Robert Downey Jr. explains how The Avengers fits in thematically with the Iron Man solo films… and drops some Sherlock Holmes 3 hints. Chris Pine tells us what to expect from Star Trek 2, and hints he might star in a most unlikely genre film. There are huge hints for Iron Man 3 and The…

Television Michael Ann Dobbs Apr 26

Your very first look at Hellboy’s trip to Hell

Hellboy’s been in a rough patch lately. It was only in last year’s miniseries The Fury that one of Big Red’s supernatural nemeses tore out his heart and killed him. Now that Hellboy’s dead, his final destination should be pretty obvious. Indeed, courtesy of Mike Mignola and Dark Horse Comics, here’s an exclusive first look…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 27

If you’re going to hell, pray you don’t get sent to the Chinese version

We’re big fans of Hieronymus Bosch-style artwork showing the Christian Hell in all its glory — but Bosch pales in comparison to this art collection of (what we’re assuming) is Chinese Hell. There’s one form of punishment that’s just needle rain and another that’s some sort of a bee and scorpion tornado. As opposed butchering…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 8

Weirdly prescient 1987 sitcom predicted the death of Muammar Gaddafi

There was no shortage of crappy, short-lived genre shows in the 1980s, but only one of them accidentally predicted the death year of a newly deceased Libyan strongman. https://gizmodo.com/10-deranged-scifi-tv-shows-that-lasted-about-as-long-as-5774460 In this bizarre scene from the pilot of the 1987 “guy comes back from the afterlife to make amends” series Second Chance, St. Peter tosses Gaddafi…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Oct 22

Descend into New York’s Hellmouth Elevator

It’s kind of hard to startle a New Yorker. That’s not arrogance speaking so much as being numb to all the public masturbators by this point. Still, an elevator in a nondescript office building in Queens opening to a hellish mix of Carnivàle and a Tim Burton flick is something to see. The surreal elevator…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Sep 19

This is what Walt Disney’s version of Hell looked like

Ever wondered where Gaston and Ursula the Sea Witch went after they died? Why, they almost certainly went to Walt Disney’s cartoon Hell, as depicted in the 1929 Silly Symphonies short “Hell’s Bells.” In this short, Cerberus looks like Goofy and a bunch of demons milk a dragon. Weird! I don’t know about you, but…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 28

In “The Abaddon,” meet the literal roommates from Hell in the apartment you can never leave

Every apartment has its quirks, but the spacious dig of webcomic The Abaddon would send even the most desperate urban dweller screaming for the suburbs. Plus, the roommates want to kill each other but can’t make the killing stick. Koren Shadmi’s The Abaddon is gorgeous and eerie from the start. Ter enters a strange apartment…

io9 Lauren Davis Apr 16

Industry in Kazakhstan Looks Like Armageddon

In the city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan, hellfire begets progress. What you’re looking at is metallurgical grade silicon, or raw molten silicon ready to be used in the auto industry for things like electrical steel. Or, you know, Terminators. [English Russia]

Tech News Kwame Opam Apr 9

What Makes Even The Devil Hate Hell? The Bureaucracy

Chris Carter Wants To Make 99 Episodes of New Hell Series The After

The California wildfires and fire tornadoes look like hell on Earth

Listen to the Butt Song from Hell written on a 500-year-old painting

Two souls form a strange friendship on an island in a river to Hell

Earth’s hellish twin discovered by NASA

13 Places on Earth People Believed Were Entrances to Hell

The List: U.S. Releases Names of Gitmo Prisoners

First English Trailer and Clips from Roland Emmerich’s Post-Apocalyptic Hell

Belief in an angry God is the strongest predictor of a country’s crime rate

Spend a lovely day with the kids at Thailand’s Hell torture theme park

The Nine Circles Of Hell, As Depicted In LEGO

A Hobbit Guest Star Confirmed. Plus Who Won’t Return in Iron Man 3 and Doctor Who season 7!

Your very first look at Hellboy’s trip to Hell

If you’re going to hell, pray you don’t get sent to the Chinese version

Weirdly prescient 1987 sitcom predicted the death of Muammar Gaddafi

Descend into New York’s Hellmouth Elevator

This is what Walt Disney’s version of Hell looked like

In “The Abaddon,” meet the literal roommates from Hell in the apartment you can never leave

Industry in Kazakhstan Looks Like Armageddon

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