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Invader Zim Creator Jhonen Vasquez Discusses Alien Daddy Issues and Turning Misanthropy Into Art

When Invader Zim first began airing on Nickelodeon back in 2001, there really wasn’t anything quite like it in the animation space, particularly when it came to series squarely aimed at a younger audience. Invader Zim was filthy, and often morbid in the way it depicted a world well on its way to falling apart … Continued

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Night of the Creeps Still Thrills Us With Its Mashup of ’80s Sci-Fi and Comedy Tropes

“Thrill me.” This simple phrase, uttered numerous times in Fred Dekker’s 1986 sci-fi horror film Night of the Creeps, is both a command and a challenge. The characters want to be thrilled and so does the audience. Luckily, we both get our wish, as Night of the Creeps still delivers thrills almost 35 years since … Continued

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The Duffer Brothers Break Down All of Stranger Things‘ Movie References

The Duffer Brothers’ love for classic sci-fi and horror films has been baked into every season of Netflix’s Stranger Things, but the show’s always been so reference-dense that, at times, it could be a little difficult to pick up on all of the winks and nods featured in each episode. In a new interview with Wired, … Continued

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Netflix’s Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus Has a New Teaser and a Release Date

Action-packed as the first trailer for Netflix’s upcoming Invader Zim movie Enter the Florpus was, it dropped during San Diego Comic-Con with nary a detail as to when folks would be able to watch it. Now, though, we know exactly when everyone’s favorite alien is going to be right back on TV screens where he … Continued

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Here Are the Bad Things NASA Thought Might Happen to the First Astronauts on the Moon

Fifty years ago this week, humankind landed on the Moon for the first time. It was one of the most impressive technological feats ever pulled off, filled with peril and uncertainty. Given that, it’s fair to wonder just what exactly NASA scientists were worried could have happened to the astronauts during and after their lunar … Continued

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How to Infiltrate Area 51 Like a Pro

Amid renewed interest in UFOs following a series of articles detailing strange sightings by U.S. military pilots—and recognitions of those concerns by the Navy—over 1.2 million have signed up for a “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” Facebook event slated for Sept. 20, 2019. Attendees are asked to breach security at the … Continued

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A Narwhal-Beluga Hybrid, Hong Kong Protests, and Jean-Luc Picard: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Another week, another crisis—The U.S. is reportedly launching cyberattacks on assets tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, including a group of hackers believed to spy on ships passing through the Gulf of Oman and on computer-controlled rocket and missile launchers, in retaliation for a series of allegedly Iranian attacks on tankers passing through the region. … Continued

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Those UFOs Spotted Over Kansas City Last Night Were Darpa Test Balloons

What were those two strange objects flying over Kansas City, Missouri last night? Plenty of people took to Twitter yesterday to speculate that they might be anything from internet balloons for Google’s Project Loon to slimy green aliens. But in reality, they’re almost certainly Darpa’s new test balloons. What was Darpa testing? How to fly … Continued

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Trump Says He Doesn’t ‘Particularly’ Believe in UFOs and Come On, Would He Lie About Something?

Donald Trump mumbled his way through a response to a softball question on UFOs and extraterrestrial life in an interview with Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos in a clip released on Saturday. Trump told Stephanopoulos that he had attended a “very brief meeting” on the matter, but that he is not in fact all that … Continued

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13 Truly Terrifying Female Horror Antagonists

Traditionally, villains in horror movies tend to be male, but there have been tons of vicious female characters over the years—both mortal and supernatural—who’ve terrified victims and audiences alike. With the excellently versatile Octavia Spencer currently spawning nightmares in Ma, we decided to count up our favorite scary-movie antagonists who just so happen to be … Continued

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Learn the Ridiculous Name of Every Animal in the Star Wars Universe

Don’t you want to know what a falumpset is? I bet you do. In the latest video in the Star Wars By the Numbers series, the Star Wars Kids YouTube channel runs down the name of every single non-sentient animal seen in the films. There’s the ones you’ve heard of, y’know, your tauntauns and your … Continued

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Commemorate the Moment Man Met Alien With This 40th Anniversary Lego Sculpture

When Alien hit theaters, 40 years ago today, it taught us one important lesson. If you end up on an alien world, stay away from strange eggs. To commemorate the xenomorphorific (I’m so, so, so sorry) anniversary, creator Iain Health (aka Ochre Jelly) decided to recreate, in Lego form, that moment of first contact. Crouching … Continued

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Archer: 1999 Shows Off Its ‘Late ‘70s, Early ‘80s Sci-Fi Vibe’ in This New Behind-the-Scenes Peek

FXX has just released a “first look” detailing the sci-fi themed 10th season of Archer, also known as Archer: 1999. Of course, all the cast and crew are going to be enthusiastic about their own show, but it’s pretty undeniable how kick-ass this season (said to be the animated cult favorite’s final) is looking: Space … Continued

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Sigourney Weaver Gives a Rave Review to the High School Alien Play in a Behind the Scenes Video

In space, no one can hear you scream. But in a high school auditorium? That’s a whole different story. Alien Anthology has released a new behind the scenes look at that high school play about Alien, whose encore performance got a surprise visit from Alien series star Sigourney Weaver. And yeah, she thinks the whole … Continued

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Tom Holland Still Hasn’t Seen Empire Strikes Back, Somehow

From Lego Death Stars to name dropping those “walker-thingies,” it’s clear the Peter Parker of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a bit of a Star Wars nerd. But despite the galaxy far, far away being a recurring thread for the MCU’s Spider-Man, Tom Holland himself still hasn’t seen the iconic film his cinematic counterpart loves. … Continued

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That Alien High School Play Got to Put on an Encore Performance for Ripley Herself

One of the coolest fan works in recent memory is a stage adaptation of the original Alien movie, performed by a New Jersey high school drama program, complete with locally sourced props and a decently convincing xenomorph. We’ve already covered that play on io9, and so it was a delight to find out that, last … Continued

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Alien Is Getting a Tabletop Roleplaying Game

At the gaming table, no one can hear you scream. io9 can exclusively reveal that Tales From the Loop creator Free League Publishing has teamed up with 20th Century Fox to create an original tabletop roleplaying game series set in the world of Alien. And it’s coming out this year. Free League is currently developing … Continued

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Two Friends Speculate About the Unknown in This Funny, Scary Clip From Something Else

Indie horror is a treasure, and Something Else, an indie horror comedy from filmmakers Jeremy Gardner and Christian Stella, seems like quite a treat. In a clip of the film, which is set to premiere at Tribeca Film Festival, two friends hunt an alien while debating what, actually, an alien is, and how justified it … Continued

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A High School in New Jersey Turned Alien Into a Gigerific Stage Play

Generally speaking, creating unlicensed adaptations of film properties is frowned upon in local theater scenes. But sometimes, you get away with it by creating something super rad, which is what happened in the case of Alien: The Play, a full-length adaptation of Ridley Scott’s Alien helmed by Perfecto Cuervo, an English teacher at North Bergen … Continued

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Captive State‘s Backstory Was Fueled by More Great Sci-Fi Ideas Than the Film Could Contain

Just because your movie is about the aftermath of an alien invasion doesn’t mean you ignore the alien invasion. In fact, Captive State co-writer and director Rupert Wyatt has a very, very clear idea of how the off-screen alien invasion before the events of his film went down. It mirrors how he believes an invasion … Continued