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The Devil Inside is a great exorcism movie possessed by a bad one

Found footage exorcism flick The Devil Inside, out today, is one of those cult movie paradoxes. It has a cool premise and ultra-creepy special effects, but they’re wrapped inside a shoddily-plotted mashup of The Rite and Elimidate. You’ll kind of love it, especially if you’re a sucker for supernatural horror – but this movie is…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jan 6

10 Nagging Questions Left Open By Disney Movies

Disney movies are most people’s first encounter with the fantasy film genre. While the fantasy worlds of Disney are based on old fairy tales, they often introduce lots of weird twists of their own. Including a healthy serving of WTF. Here are 10 questions that Disney movies leave us confused about. Confused Tinkerbell image via…

Movies Esther Inglis-Arkell Jan 6

Kanye West is the Creative Director on the Jetsons movie?

Rapper Kanye West is allegedly the Creative Director on a live action Jetsons movie that is still stuck in development hell. Maybe. At least, that’s what we get from his tweets. A few days ago Kanye went on a Twitter tear, that seemingly exposed him as the possible new Creative Director for The Jetsons. We…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 6

Star Trek IV could have included more about Spock’s baby

After Spock and Lt. Saavik got to know each other much better in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, you could have been forgiven for thinking that something would come of it later on. And indeed, Robin Curtis says in a new interview that she expected a whole “Saavik is pregnant with Spock’s baby”…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jan 6

First clip from Chronicle shows what happens when teenage boys get superpowers

Teenagers are terrible rotten things (or at least I was) and I shudder to think what I would do with telekinetic powers — which is exactly the plot of the new “found footage” film Chronicle. This surprising film’s honesty and hidden darkness may just revitalize this genre yet. Now take a look at the first…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 6

DVD Subscription Services Keep Getting Worse

Netflix had a rough 2011. Between its ill-conceived price hike and its even more ill-conceived DVD spin-off company, Qwikster, the movie rental company couldn’t win. And now external factors (read: the studios) are making things even worse—not only for them, but also Blockbuster and Redbox—by delaying new releases. According to AllThingsD, Warner Bros. is providing…

Movies Adrian Covert Jan 5

Hey everybody, the American Akira is dead! Again!

Remember that unkillable American Akira adaptation starring Kristen Stewart and the other Tron Guy (not that one) as Kaneda the neighborhood suds dealer? According to THR, Amerikira is dead until producers figure out how to lop ~$25 million off of director Jaume Collet-Serra’s $90-million production: The project […] is being shut down in the face…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Jan 5

An Exclusive Look at the Making of Dragon Tattoo‘s Stunning Titles

We’re still haunted by the oozing hands that smushed Lisbeth Salander’s lovely face in David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’s title sequence. But what sort of Dragon Tattoo imagery is hidden amongst all these tangled vines of USB cables and “primordial dream ooze”? We spoke with co-founder of Blur and the title sequence’s…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 5

Hit Movies That Everybody Thinks Were Flops

The history of genre movies is littered with massive, lavish failures — movies that took hundreds of millions of dollars and tossed the money down a sinkhole. But some of the movies that everybody “knows” were box office disasters actually did really well, when you look at the numbers. Here are some successful science fiction,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jan 5

A new director for the Carrie remake may make prom horror watchable

The dreaded Carrie remake is circling a director. Thankfully, it’s Kimberly Peirce of Boys Don’t Cry fame, which makes us slightly optimistic for her translation. Deadline reports that the studio wants Peirce for their new Carrie. And while we’d love to see Pierce’s POV on Carrie, we can’t imagine anyone replacing the greatness that was…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 5

Pixar is doing a movie set entirely in a girl’s mind

On Charlie Rose last month, Pixar head John Lasseter talked about Pixar’s upcoming movies – including the Monsters, Inc. prequel we already knew about, and the untitled “Pixar’s take on dinosaurs” movie we’re eagerly awaiting. But then he added that the studio has a movie in development that takes place entirely inside a girl’s head,…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jan 4

Insane indie trailer asks: What if you could test for True Love?

Stop whatever you are doing and check out this trailer. What starts off as a dopey proposal slowly shifts into some highly terrifying couples psych experiments in the new teaser trailer for the Fabios. Watch it now. Click to view Brought to you by the same folks behind the wonderful Afterville ( Fabio Guaglione and…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Jan 4

What lies outside Michael Biehn’s post-apocalyptic basement in The Divide?

We’ve called Xavier Gens’s The Divide the most disturbing end-of-the-world movie we’ve ever seen — and even now when we think about it, we feel like taking a shower. Check out this exclusive clip from the post apocalyptic hellhole, otherwise known as Michael Biehn’s basement. Milo Ventimiglia, Rosanna Arquette and a few other end-of-the-world survivors…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 4

Evangelion 3.0 and 4.0 will complete the one anime series you absolutely need

If you have to limit yourself to one anime movie series in your life, or in the next week, Evangelion is one of your best options. The infamously complex post-apocalyptic anime series was rebooted in two incredible films, Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone and Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance, released over the past…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jan 4

Architects draw up the blueprints for your favorite fairy tale homes

How does one build a single turret that a grown man can scale up, aided only by a hair rope, without the whole thing toppling over? Kate Bernheimer and Andrew Bernheimer have created a fascinating series over at Design Observer, where a batch of slick architects and designers have plotted out the blueprints for various…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 4

What’s the deal with David Lynch’s unproduced science fiction screenplay Ronnie Rocket?

There are many bewildering enigmas in David Lynch’s long career, but one of the most fascinating is his unproduced science fiction screenplay, Ronnie Rocket. Lynch fans have been obsessed with this project for years, even making their own posters and fan videos for it. But Lynch himself seems to be obsessed, too. He’s mentioned it…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jan 4

What if The Thing starred the beloved claymation penguin Pingu?

Watch Lee Hardcastle‘s beautiful hybrid of the 1980s stop-motion TV show Pingu crossed with John Carpenter’s alien horror movie The Thing! We’ve never seen so much clay penguin blood! Hat tip to syafiqjabar of Mars.

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 4

Watch the Unbelievable Trailer of Nitro Circus The Movie (AKA the People Crazier Than Jackass)

If you’re a fan of the silly hijinks of Jackass, you have to watch this upcoming Nitro Circus movie. Nitro Circus is the super crazy extreme group headlined by motocross legend Travis Pastrana and his friends that pull stunts that even Knoxville and his gang wouldn’t even dare doing. It’s a more athletic Jackass! More…

Movies Casey Chan Jan 3

70 Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies to Watch Out for in 2012

How did Hollywood manage to fit so many of our must-see projects into one year? 2012 features Nolan’s last Batman, Whedon’s Avengers, Ridley Scott’s return to science fiction, Andrew Stanton’s John Carter, the Hunger Games movie, and Alfonso Cuaron’s space epic. And that’s just scratching the surface. This year, there are 58 genre movies already…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jan 3

New Hunger Games images show the calm before all the child murder

A collection of brand new stills from The Hunger Games shows off a few more side characters from the dystopian future, where children battle to the death for public entertainment. Get a better look at the Peace Keepers, and Woody Harrelson as the drunken fight tutor to Katniss and Peetah named Haymitch Abernathy. The Hunger…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 3

The Devil Inside is a great exorcism movie possessed by a bad one

10 Nagging Questions Left Open By Disney Movies

Kanye West is the Creative Director on the Jetsons movie?

Star Trek IV could have included more about Spock’s baby

First clip from Chronicle shows what happens when teenage boys get superpowers

DVD Subscription Services Keep Getting Worse

Hey everybody, the American Akira is dead! Again!

An Exclusive Look at the Making of Dragon Tattoo‘s Stunning Titles

Hit Movies That Everybody Thinks Were Flops

A new director for the Carrie remake may make prom horror watchable

Pixar is doing a movie set entirely in a girl’s mind

Insane indie trailer asks: What if you could test for True Love?

What lies outside Michael Biehn’s post-apocalyptic basement in The Divide?

Evangelion 3.0 and 4.0 will complete the one anime series you absolutely need

Architects draw up the blueprints for your favorite fairy tale homes

What’s the deal with David Lynch’s unproduced science fiction screenplay Ronnie Rocket?

What if The Thing starred the beloved claymation penguin Pingu?

Watch the Unbelievable Trailer of Nitro Circus The Movie (AKA the People Crazier Than Jackass)

70 Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies to Watch Out for in 2012

New Hunger Games images show the calm before all the child murder

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