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io9Open Channel: Show io9 Your Quarantine-Appropriate Halloween Costumes
Like everything else this year, Halloween is weird. But that doesn’t mean we can’t dress up! So, dear nerds of io9, we want to know: what are you dressing up as this year? Are you still going full costume or are you improving something smaller for a nice Halloween lounge? Either way, we want to … Continued
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io9MoviesThe Scariest Scenes in Star Wars
Fear may be a path to the Dark Side but it’s not something most people associate with Star Wars. When you think Star Wars you think sweeping sci-fi adventure or maybe even laid back Western swagger. You rarely think of nail-biting dread or shocking jump scares. They’re in there though and this Halloween, we’ve gone … Continued
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io9Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s Goofy, Ghostly Truth Seekers Is Well Worth a Binge
Truth Seekers, a new series whose co-creators and stars include noted nerds Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead), hits Amazon tomorrow. It would be a welcome arrival any time of year, but since it’s all about the paranormal (and the humans who’re obsessed with it), it’s the perfect binge for Halloween. Though … Continued
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io9Tim Curry’s Gloriously Bad Halloween Song From The Worst Witch: A Scholarly Analysis
As Halloween approaches, it is paramount that we all take a moment to remember—or discover—Tim Curry’s “Halloween Song” from The Worst Witch. Since HBO aired its extremely low-budget, TV movie adaptation of Jill Murphy’s children’s books in 1986, it has remained one of the most wonderful, terrible, bizarre videos of all time, thanks to its … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsComics Personifications of Death Ranked in Order of How Overused They Are
As often as comic book publishers bring characters back from the dead, you would think comics themselves wouldn’t feature personifications of death as major players just a rule. It’s one thing to resurrect a person in order to make any particular series or story feel impactful, but when you bring in walking, talking embodiments of … Continued
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io9Movies6 Spooky Shorts to Get You in the Halloween Spirit
Halloween is nearly upon us, and while the world has its mind on certain things that are happening in early November, there’s still room to get in the spooky spirit—quickly!—with these six horrific short films. 1) Special Delivery Hulu’s “Bite Size Halloween” series brings us this three-minute cautionary tale from director John McPhail, about a … Continued
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io9MoviesThe 10 Scariest G-Rated Movies
Halloween is a time for horrors, haunts, and movies with a lot of blood. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the most terrifying films out there are the ones that are considered “safe” for all ages. Here are our picks of the 10 scariest G-rated movies in modern history. For the most part, we stuck … Continued
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io9MoviesStar Wars‘ Universal Monsters
No one can escape spooky season, not even Star Wars. While there are plenty of frightful things in the galaxy far, far away—the Dark Side and the Sith, the Empire and the First Order, when you watch your idealized Jedi savior just casually swig milk straight from an alien teat—Star Wars has a legacy of … Continued
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io9Games6 Video Games Where Dressing Up Is Part of the Fun
Video games are a great way to explore unique worlds and test the limits of your abilities—but let’s be honest, they’re also about wearingcool outfits. Some games have taken this to the next level by featuring not just great outfits but also fantastic costumes. Since Halloween is right around the corner, we decided to pay … Continued
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io9GamesHaunted Mansion: Call of the Spirits Welcomes Foolish Mortals to a Charming, Simple Game
Disney theme park rides continue to be a source of entertainment—even outside of the parks themselves. The Jungle Cruise movie is set to come out (at some point) and Disney recently announced Space Mountain and Haunted Mansion were getting films. But first, a new board game is inviting creepy ghosts to come out and socialize…in … Continued
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io9GamesWelcome to My Sims House of Horrors
The Sims is a great way to create fun, unrealistic versions of everyday life—a blessing in disguise for the times we’re living in. But it has another purpose: Finding out how evil you can be to digital strangers. For this unholiest of months, I decided to create a virtual house of horrors, trying to unlock … Continued
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io9GamesPokémon‘s Spooky Lore Is Better the More Messed Up It Is
In Pokémon Sword and Shield’s upcoming DLC expansion, The Crown Tundra, trainers are pulled into yet another adventure in the Galar region, this time in a frozen expanse where a number of previously unseen, legendary Pokémon are said to live. Like The Isle of Armor before it, The Crown Tundra’s meant to represent a trainer’s path … Continued
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io9Stranger Things Is Getting a Socially Distant Drive-Through Haunted House
The scariest part is knowing you can’t leave your car. Netflix has teamed up with Fever and Secret Cinema to debut a drive-through immersive Stranger Things adventure in Los Angeles this October, where fans will experience nostalgia and frights from the Upside Down…from the safety of their vehicle. According to an email press release, the … Continued
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ScienceBiologyMeet the ‘Halloween Genes’: Spook, Shadow, and Shade
Scientists who study Drosophila, the humble fruit fly, like to have some fun when naming newly identified genes and proteins. There’s the Sonic Hedgehog protein (which looks spiky under a microscope), the Ken and Barbie genes (when they’re mutated, fruit flies don’t develop external genitalia), and the hangover gene (which is key for alcohol tolerance). Nobel … Continued
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Tech NewsBritish Town Blames Spiders for Ghostly Sound of Children Singing at Night
Can you think of anything creepier in the middle of the night than the distant, melancholy sounds of children singing? It’s pure nightmare fuel, but it was also the reality for a small family in eastern England who for months reportedly had to endure a haunting rendition of “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring” from children who … Continued
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SciencePhysics & Chemistry
Canada’s Defense Department Is Funding a Quantum Radar System
Cutting-edge physics has driven military innovation for over a century, from Marie Curie’s x-ray machines of World War I to the quest for the atomic bomb during World War II. But these days, government defense departments are funding even more esoteric pursuits. We learned recently that the US Department of Defense is funding time crystals, … Continued
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Tech News
Scientists Discover a Tiny Monster in Canada’s Arctic Ice
No one said that monsters needed to be big or even scary. But when James Dwight Dana first spotted one strange plankton species back in the 19th century, he knew he had something weird on his hands. “Little monster,” Monstrilla seemed like as good a name as any. After all, scientists can name species after … Continued
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ScienceSpace & Spaceflight
NASA’s Latest Venus Probe Concept Looks Like a Tim Burton Creation
Everyone forgets about Venus because it’s not Mars. Or Saturn. Or Jupiter, for that matter. Or, maybe it’s because Venus is a toxic wasteland. Still, the second planet from the Sun deserves a little more credit than it currently gets. Recently, a team of researchers NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory dropped their latest design for a … Continued
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