Horror

Holy crap, this is the most terrifying Garfield strip ever published

Even if you possess the absolute baseline of pop cultural literacy, you’re probably aware of Garfield, that orange comic strip cat who’s spent the past thirty-odd years terrorizing his man-child owner. Garfield strips aren’t heavy reading whatsoever — in fact, they make Marmaduke look like obscurantist performance art. This wasn’t the case when cartoonist Jim…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Read a sneak preview of the next issue of Swamp Thing

The character Swamp Thing has gone through many strange metamorphoses over the years. And in author Scott Snyder’s current (and enjoyably creepy) story line, Dr. Alec Holland has only reluctantly taken on the mantle of the mossy champion to do battle with a malevolent primordial force known as The Rot. Here’s an exclusive first look…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

If H.R. Giger were a pastry chef, his cakes might look something like this

For his Cakeland project, Oakland sculptor Scott Hove takes cues from both the animal kingdom and the modern kitchen. He gives flamboyant gâteaus teeth, jaws, and imposing frosting spikes. If someone decided to reboot Alien on Planet Candyland, Hove’s work would be a good place to start. Like a poison arrow frog, Hove’s colorful delicacies…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The All-Out Supernatural Cheese Rampage We’ve All Been Waiting For

The first trailer for The Apparition looks so relentlessly cheesetastic, we can hardly stand it. This movie has everything: feckless scientific researchers who set out to prove that you can summon supernatural entities with the power of the mind, a monster that is sort of like a virus and sort of like a ghost, and…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

Blair Witch Project writer/director’s new film takes exploitation to the next level

After making the genre-changing Blair Witch Project for a tiny budget, filmmaker Eduardo Sánchez spent over a decade recovering. He worked on a string of unsuccessful movies, but now he’s trying for a comeback with his first feature in a while, Lovely Molly. Like Blair, this indie horror flick incorporates found footage into a nerve-jangling…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Short film Vessel puts a sick new twist on an old alien abduction story

Check out the short alien creature feature Vessel, which has finally been released online today. We’ve been following this little flick for years, and at last everyone can watch it. This is seriously fun alien horror. https://gizmodo.com/first-gooey-footage-from-vessels-in-flight-alien-attack-5622935 Here’s the official summary from Vessel’s website. VESSEL is a very ambitious scifi / horror short in the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Creepy, Sexy Drifter Who Knows When and How You’ll Die

In Chuck Wendig’s new novel Blackbirds, protagonist Miriam Black is a young woman with a superpower. Only, it’s a terrible superpower – when she touches someone, she can see the exact date, time and method of their death, in a vivid and morbid vision. And there’s nothing she can do about it. I first encountered…

Books & Comics Ed Grabianowski

You’ll want to throw money at this deranged graphic novel about baseball players versus monsters

When comic author Mark Andrew Smith (The Amazing Joy Buzzards) and artist James Stokoe (Orc Stain) completed their “minor league baseball team versus unspeakable cosmic horrors” graphic novel Sullivan’s Sluggers, something downright criminal happened — barely any comic stores ordered the book. https://kotaku.com/how-does-one-invent-an-economy-based-on-orc-genitalia-5795566 Undaunted, the duo turned to Kickstarter to properly publish this grotesquely gorgeous…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The awesomely insane Heaven and Hell nightclubs of 1890s Paris

In modern times, you can find a stray cabaret or goth club in most modern metropolitan areas. But back in the late 19th century, your options were limited, albeit merrily deranged. Paris of the 1890s had several supernatural nightlife options, each of them with marvelously outlandish gimmicks. In the 1899 book Bohemian Paris of To-Day…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Holy hell, this trailer for the Jewish horror flick The Possession is actually terrifying

The Possession (formerly titled The Dibbuk Box) just gave us the chills, and that’s hard to do these days. Watch as a little girl finds a brand new box and unleashes a demon INSIDE OF HER. No seriously, most of the trailer is this creature trying to climb its way outside of a little girl.…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Prometheus viral introduces the evil Yutani corporation

The latest viral ad for Prometheus has actress Noomi Rapace begging for help from Weyland Industries. But if you look closely, you can see that the entire video phone call is being monitored by none other than the Yutani Company. Alien super-fans know that eventually Weyland and Yutani will become Weyland-Yutani, whose motto is “Building…

Movies Meredith Woerner

These clips from Piranha 3DD are short on stripping lifeguards, but long on singing David Hasselhoff

How could Piranha 3DD possibly top its predecessor? Easy — add one David Hasselhoff. Check out this trio of clips filled with schlocky horror, mad scientist Christopher Lloyd, and Hoff’s next greatest single, “Love Hunter.” Piranha 3DD hits theaters on June 1.

Movies Meredith Woerner

New Prometheus TV spot shows the many ways this crew is doomed!

This is by far the most gruesome — and spoiler-filled — trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus yet. We’re talking full-on carnage, and some glimpses of crazy easter eggs to go with that big Easter Island head. Feast your eyes on the dark horror that awaits this crew — including a couple animated GIFs! And here…

Movies Meredith Woerner

This movie looks like it might freak you right out of your skin

Beyond The Black Rainbow, in select theaters this Friday, looks like the weirdest frigging movie in ages. Just check out these two exclusive stills, plus the bizarre, loopy trailer. It’s a huge tribute to 1970s and early 1980s pop culture, set in a distorted version of 1983. Here’s another exclusive photo, plus a synopsis: Set…

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There are few things goofier than the girl from The Ring, kaiju-sized

To promote the upcoming installment of The Ring saga, Sadako 3D, advertisers have been driving a giant version of scary videotape girl Sadako Yamamura around the Shibuya neighborhood in Tokyo. Behold a movie monster that has absolutely no business being the size of an ice cream truck. To get slightly autobiographical for a moment, years…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Is Chernobyl Diaries just the Ukrainian version of Hills Have Eyes?

Paranormal Activity’s Oren Peli is venturing out of strict “found footage” horror with his new movie Chernobyl Diaries. But how scary is this movie actually going to be, in practice? Find out for yourself. We’ve got a massive collection of stills and clips from the movie. On the one hand, thus far the trailers and…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Why do all of the grown-ups on The Vampire Diaries suck so much?

There was only one reasonably stable adult human left on The Vampire Diaries — and they just borked him. The vampire-hunting history teacher and surrogate parent Alaric Saltzman has been forever altered by a supernatural plot twist — leaving the CW series with absolutely zero likable adults left who aren’t vampires. Why does TVD hate…

io9 Kaila Hale-Stern

Behind-The-Scenes snaps from Ridley Scott’s Alien reveal the real Xenomorph

We’re totally mesmerized by this collection of behind-the-scenes images from Ridley Scott’s Alien — especially the photo of the original occupant of the Xenomorph costume! Just imagine what stories he could tell. Take a look at this awesome (new to us) collection of Alien images — including some of the space cat! Thank you for…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Spoiler, a police procedural that takes place post-zombie apocalypse

This here is Spoiler, a nifty nugget of horror made by some special effects creators who worked on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Zodiac. Director Daniel Thron described it to us as “sort of like if Michael Mann stepped into the telepod with a blu-ray of 28 Days Later.” (And yes, that is…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Why are so many vampire stories so weak?

Kim Newman is not just an acclaimed film critic and pop culture expert — he’s also the author of a Dracula-themed alternate history book series, beginning with Anno Dracula. So he knows what he’s talking about when he says that a lot of recent vampire stories, well, suck. To celebrate the re-release of his second…

io9 Kim Newman

Holy crap, this is the most terrifying Garfield strip ever published

Read a sneak preview of the next issue of Swamp Thing

If H.R. Giger were a pastry chef, his cakes might look something like this

The All-Out Supernatural Cheese Rampage We’ve All Been Waiting For

Blair Witch Project writer/director’s new film takes exploitation to the next level

Short film Vessel puts a sick new twist on an old alien abduction story

The Creepy, Sexy Drifter Who Knows When and How You’ll Die

You’ll want to throw money at this deranged graphic novel about baseball players versus monsters

The awesomely insane Heaven and Hell nightclubs of 1890s Paris

Holy hell, this trailer for the Jewish horror flick The Possession is actually terrifying

Prometheus viral introduces the evil Yutani corporation

These clips from Piranha 3DD are short on stripping lifeguards, but long on singing David Hasselhoff

New Prometheus TV spot shows the many ways this crew is doomed!

This movie looks like it might freak you right out of your skin

There are few things goofier than the girl from The Ring, kaiju-sized

Is Chernobyl Diaries just the Ukrainian version of Hills Have Eyes?

Why do all of the grown-ups on The Vampire Diaries suck so much?

Behind-The-Scenes snaps from Ridley Scott’s Alien reveal the real Xenomorph

Spoiler, a police procedural that takes place post-zombie apocalypse

Why are so many vampire stories so weak?

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