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Arcade Fire's new album's generating tons of excitement, but we're more stoked about their collaborations with genre film's leading lights. Spike Jonze is directing their science fiction short film, and Terry Gilliam's directing the webcast of their August 5 concert. More »
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The models of the Lithuanian fashion label Vergi wouldn't look out of place on a scifi VHS cassette box circa 1986. Whether it's post-apocalyptic or post-humanist, these women have a smoking B-movie aesthetic that channels the future and past simultaneously. More »
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Government spy cameras are a common feature in science fiction, suggesting a future where citizens are under near-constant surveillance. But in the upcoming film Eyeborgs, cameras cease to be a mere symbol of government oppression and step into the limelight as full-fledged villains. In a pair of new trailers, the errant eyeborgs try to take down Adrian Paul and Danny Trejo while broadcasting transmitting a very different image to the US government. More »
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Everything that producer/director Brian "Beyond Re-Animator" Yuzna does is carefully crafted to embody the perfect B-movie. Case in point is his production company Halcyon International's new flick Alien Uprising. This trailer makes the movie so uncannily similar to every other scifi horror movie that it transcends trash to become a kind of apotheosis of genre. More »
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OK, so it's like fifty years in the future and the planet is dying of pollution or war or something. And a corporate mogul guy invents teleportation technology that allows him to terraform a remote planet with some kind of mega-oxygen-producing plant. In indie B-movie Savage Planet, though, you can ignore the cool teleportation and terraforming and all that stuff. Because it's really about giant, savage bears. More »
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Now that it's official that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is venturing into science fiction territory, with funky Grateful Dead-skulls, there's no going back. Indy has a whole universe of "B" science fiction plots to explore. So where do you think he should go next? More »
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Though Cloverfield is definitely one of the great giant monster movies of recent years, it's best feature was also its worst feature: the reality-TV feel to the acting and camera work. I'm a fan of the jiggy-cam stuff, but I was one of many who had no sympathy at all for the entitled yuppie main characters who YouTubed their own demise. Now a new crop of truly indie monster movies may offer a corrective to the New York rich kid POV in Cloverfield. The forthcoming Blob-meets-illegal-pharmaceuticals flick Bio-Slime, whose trailer you can consume right here, is a good example of these new-style monster flicks, whose low production values look suddenly professional in light of the faux-low production on Cloverfield. Other indie monsters are rampaging in your DVD drive next year too. More »
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If you have ever willingly or unwillingly sought out science fiction in the movie theater, you know what dangers await. Sure, you may find yourself blown away by a 28 Days Later, but you might just as easily find yourself rolling your eyes through a Jumper or Transformers. But even if you do find yourself having to watch Hayden Christensen in front of a green screen, there is hope. Here to deliver the good news about surviving bad scifi movies is Sherilyn Connelly, who has for years been a ringleader of the weekly Bad Movie Night at San Francisco's Dark Room. She worked with her Bad Movie Night colleagues* to come up with a few ways you can turn a horrible movie experience into one the whole theater will enjoy. More »
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You can watch the Evil Brain From Outer Space and many other scifi B-movies for free. Right now, instead of being a productive employee, you could be watching Starman use his Globemeter to track the missing brain of Balazar. Other choices include Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, Bad Taste and Planet Outlaws Just go to BMovies.com and search by category or title. [BMovies.com] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=337452&view=rss&microfeed=true Decoys 2: The Second Seduction is a B-movie about sexy alien invaders who want nothing more than our precious homo sapiens DNA. Packed with great Canadian humor (yes, Canadians definitely have their own brand of humor), the movie follows a group of dorky college guys who are being stalked by blonds who want to impregnate them by sticking CGI tentacles down their throats and then freezing them to death. Don't believe me? Well, watch the clip. More »
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