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Halloween’s Extra Spooky With Michael Jackson’s Thriller Played On Outdated Zombie Technology

There are still a few days left to immerse yourself in everything Halloween before thoughts shift to turkeys and shopping lists. So pull down the blinds, turn up that smoke machine, and put Paweł Zadrożniak’s latest masterpiece on loop as the Floppotron grinds out a wonderful rendition of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’. The instrument feels particularly…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 29

Horror Icon Vincent Price’s 14 Most Legendary Performances

’Tis the season to blast “Thriller” and binge-watch all your favorite scary movies. Naturally, the mind drifts to one of the greatest talents the genre ever knew: Vincent Price. The actor had a long, varied career—he was also an art expert and a cookbook author!—but here are our favorite spooky and offbeat highlights. 1) “Thriller”…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Oct 19

Darkness Falls Across the Land, Michael Jackson’s Thriller 3D IMAX Debut Is Close at Hand

Michael Jackson’s Thriller isn’t just a music video, it’s a cinematic experience. So, it’s no surprise that Jackson’s estate is teaming up with IMAX to bring a 3D remastered version of the classic short film to theaters. Everyone, get your zombie arms ready! According to a press release, Thriller will appear on the big screen…

Movies Beth Elderkin Aug 29

A Space Traveler Uncovers an Impossible Mystery in the Thrilling First Chapter of Emma Newman’s Before Mars

A geologist whose art has captured the imagination of a space-obsessed multibillionaire accepts a new a gig on Mars, partially as a way to escape the postpartum depression that’s been plaguing her back on Earth. But as soon as she arrives, she makes a shocking discovery—and suddenly she’s surrounded by strangers she can’t trust in…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy Feb 28

For Some Reason, CBS Is Making a Michael Jackson’s Halloween Cartoon

Michael Jackson is tied to Halloween for only one reason: Thriller. But that’s it. And yet for some reason, CBS has announced that it’s making an hour-long Halloween special—for children!—“with Michael Jackson’s acclaimed music as its soundtrack.” Is it Thriller’s 25th anniversary? Its 50th? No, it’s the inauspicious 35th anniversary of the album and CBS’…

Television Zach Ezer Jul 11

Anthony Hopkins Battles a Serial Killer With Psychic Powers in Thriller Solace

It’s been a minute since we’ve had a truly bonkers horror noir—think Se7en or Fallen—but paranormal procedural Solace looks like it has potential. Anthony Hopkins plays a psychic who helps FBI agent Jeffrey Dean Morgan track a serial killer (Colin Farrell) who is an even more powerful psychic. Unfortunately, while that premise is pleasantly ridiculous,…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy Nov 10

Jason Clarke Joins Thriller About Gun Heiress Who Built a Mansion to Assuage Angry Ghosts

Jason Clarke will join Helen Mirren in Winchester, a supernatural thriller about eccentric firearms heiress Sarah Winchester. Her legacy is a mansion that took shape over 38 years of continuous construction… because she believed the ghosts of people killed by Winchester rifles wanted her do it. As you might guess, Clarke is playing something more…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Sep 13

Midnight Special Just Vaulted to the Top of Our Must-See List for 2016

Last week, we saw the poster and some images for Midnight Special, an upcoming thriller from director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter) that takes inspiration from Spielberg’s scifi classics, including E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Now we’ve got a trailer that makes us even more excited for the movie. https://gizmodo.com/midnight-special-could-be-the-steven-spielberg-influenc-1742443580 The film’s title…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy Nov 19

Gremlins, Werewolves, and Hellboys: Rick Baker Gets a Tribute Art Show

Even if you don’t know the name Rick Baker, you know his work. I guarantee it. From Star Wars to An American Werewolf in London, Men in Black to Ed Wood, Gremlins, Thriller, Hellboy, Baker’s work with make-up and effects is legendary. He’s got seven Oscars to prove it and now, a tribute art show.…

io9 Germain Lussier Oct 23

This Narcopolis Clip Puts An Uber-Futuristic Spin on a Classic Thriller Scene

Ah, the high-tech break-in—an expected scene in any contemporary thriller, and that goes double for a movie set in the future. In Narcopolis, the debut feature from UK writer-director Justin Trefgarne, a pair of hackers go through the ol’ breaking-into-the system routine, with an insanely modern twist. For context, in this exclusive clip, they’re creeping…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Oct 2

So Netflix’s Newest Series is Black Mirror, What Are Some Plot Lines You Want to See?

The rumors are true, Charlie Brooker’s tech-fi thriller Black Mirror is returning as a new Netflix original series. And it’ll likely be just as thought-provoking and chilling as the original. First debuting in 2011, Black Mirror is a hybrid of The Twilight Zone’s anxiety-ridden plot twists mixed with a dark, sometimes satirical theme that is…

Television Chelsea Scherer Sep 25

How Michael Jackson Inspired One of the Original YouTube Memes

An incredible thing happened on July 17, 2007. A video of several hundred inmates wearing orange jumpsuits and performing an immaculately choreographed dance to Thriller appeared on a small website called YouTube. Two years later, Michael Jackson was dead, and YouTube had changed history. You might argue that Michael Jackson’s Thriller dance did for YouTube…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jun 25

In This Short Thriller, The Only Witness To A Murder Has Face Blindness

Prosopagnosia is a cognitive disorder that prevents sufferers from being able to recognize faces. In this short film, a woman is found murdered in her apartment, and the only witness is her best friend, who suffers from prosopagnosia. Naturally, not everything is as it seems. Hugo Keijzer directed Prosopagnosia, not a science fiction film, but…

io9 Lauren Davis Jun 4

Simon Pegg Is A Crass Assassin In The Trailer For Kill Me Three Times

Oh jeez, you’re saying. Another hitman movie? But! Australian entry Kill Me Three Times stars Simon Pegg, noted funnyguy, as the ruthless bloke with the gun. And wisecracks. Watch the red band trailer below, and make sure not to use all your matches to set off that explosion.

io9 Cheryl Eddy Feb 21

Vice Is The Least Subtle Dystopia Ever, And That’s Saying Something

There’s nothing subtle about Vice, an astonishingly unoriginal thriller that plays off familiar fears that violent video games will turn players into real-world trigger-happy sociopaths. The movie is now viewable on demand; some spoilers ahead. Top-billed Bruce Willis smirks his way through what’s decidedly more of a supporting role, playing Julian Michaels (not to be…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Jan 16

Thriller Headed Back To The Big Screen For A 3D Debut

Horror director John Landis has spilled the beans on his plans for a Thriller, 3D re-release. Landis told the New York Daily News, “there is something happening with Thriller. It is going to reappear in a highly polished and three-dimensional way that is very exciting on the big screen.” Hell yes. And they have plans…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 7

Michael Jackson’s Thriller Epically Performed with Stop-Motion Lego

If you don’t care about the Mileys and the Biebers like most sane humans of this world, one of the most iconic music videos to you is probably Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Or maybe Billie Jean. Or is it Smooth Criminal? Beat It? Actually, it can be five more MJ creations. But Thriller is somethin’. And…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 9

The Beginning of “Thriller” Animated Entirely in LEGO Bricks

We’ve seen Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video reenacted by LEGO minifigs before, but Annette Jung takes a different approach, creating a stop-motion animation using LEGO bricks as pixels. Jung makes nice use of the medium by showing the bottom side of the bricks to suggest slightly darker colors and occasionally layering her bricks to create depth.…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 7

The Strangest Werewolves Ever to Grace the Screen

Hemlock Grove just gave us our latest iteration of the on-screen werewolf, but it’s by no means the strangest. Here are some of the odder takes on these furry faced children of the night. How To Make A Monster? (1958) (via Wrong Side Of The Art and Zontar Mag) I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)…

io9 Vincze Miklós Apr 27

Mix vampires and espionage with tabletop RPG Night’s Black Agents

As night falls on Belgrade, you and your team of special agents go on high alert. You’ve got the gadgetry of Bond and the competence of Bourne, but this is a shadowy international conspiracy you’re up against: drug lords, corporate masterminds, bought politicians, crooked Interpol agents, and vampires. The bad kind. This is the world…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jan 10

Thriller

Halloween’s Extra Spooky With Michael Jackson’s Thriller Played On Outdated Zombie Technology

Horror Icon Vincent Price’s 14 Most Legendary Performances

Darkness Falls Across the Land, Michael Jackson’s Thriller 3D IMAX Debut Is Close at Hand

A Space Traveler Uncovers an Impossible Mystery in the Thrilling First Chapter of Emma Newman’s Before Mars

For Some Reason, CBS Is Making a Michael Jackson’s Halloween Cartoon

Anthony Hopkins Battles a Serial Killer With Psychic Powers in Thriller Solace

Jason Clarke Joins Thriller About Gun Heiress Who Built a Mansion to Assuage Angry Ghosts

Midnight Special Just Vaulted to the Top of Our Must-See List for 2016

Gremlins, Werewolves, and Hellboys: Rick Baker Gets a Tribute Art Show

This Narcopolis Clip Puts An Uber-Futuristic Spin on a Classic Thriller Scene

So Netflix’s Newest Series is Black Mirror, What Are Some Plot Lines You Want to See?

How Michael Jackson Inspired One of the Original YouTube Memes

In This Short Thriller, The Only Witness To A Murder Has Face Blindness

Simon Pegg Is A Crass Assassin In The Trailer For Kill Me Three Times

Vice Is The Least Subtle Dystopia Ever, And That’s Saying Something

Thriller Headed Back To The Big Screen For A 3D Debut

Michael Jackson’s Thriller Epically Performed with Stop-Motion Lego

The Beginning of “Thriller” Animated Entirely in LEGO Bricks

The Strangest Werewolves Ever to Grace the Screen

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