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People have been trying to make a movie of William Gibson's Neuromancer since the mid-1980s, and now Splice/Cube director Vincenzo Natali is trying to make it happen. But for a few years, Joseph Kahn, the director of tons of music videos plus Torque and Detention, was hard at work on a Neuromancer film. More »
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It goes by many names: the hypercube, the 8-cell, or the octochoron. It is represented by many shapes; a small cube inside a larger cube, two cubes connected by a bridge, a cube with slightly skewed angles. All the tesseract's names and shapes are attempts to visualize what we can never understand. What does the fourth dimension look like? More »
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Looking for some thrillers that take place entirely in a single enclosed space? Agent Orange from Quiet Earth has counted down 13 of the most nail-biting flicks confined to four walls. More »
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Ever since ET for the Atari 2600 wowed gamers worldwide, science fiction and video games have been natural bedfellows. Here are 10 great scifi tales that embrace the aesthetics, technology, and popular tropes of the gaming world. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5624586&view=rss&microfeed=true Cube Zero, the prequel to Vincenzo Natali's Cube, is surprisingly great. And the best bit is this scene where one of the inmates reaches the "Exit." And faces the ultimate question: Do you believe in God? More »
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Forget watching blue people have hair-sex. Splice, the genetic-modification thriller featuring a human-animal hybrid, offers something much weirder and nastier. Watch two genetically engineered monsters experience "love at first sight," in a new clip from the Cube director's new film. More »
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Here's a fun game you can play at home: How many lab-safety regulations do Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley violate in this first clip from the gene-splicing movie Splice? And meet their baby human/animal hybrid, under un-controlled conditions. Spoilers below. More »
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Welcome back to Horrorhead, a column all about the connections between horror and scifi. On Battlestar Galactica, there's an ongoing theme of torture: humans gang-rape an imprisoned Cylon; the Cylons beat a man so badly he loses his eye (not to mention all the humans they kill outright); and there's even a little human-on-Cylon washboarding early in the series. These are not scenes that take place entirely offscreen. We see beatings; we see the bloody, freaked-out face of Six the Cylon after she's been raped so many times she can't stand up and has lost the will to eat. The question is, do we need to see these scenes? Would this series be as powerful without them? And by extension, would any torture-laced scifi flick like The Hills Have Eyes or Cube be as enticing if it lost the mutilations or the razor net that falls from the ceiling and reduces living humans to little cubes of flesh? (Spoilers ahead.) More »
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German railroad company Deutsche Bahn has its headquarters right in the heart of Berlin's Washingtonplaz. For a redesign, the company chose this cubic construction by Danish architecture firm 3xn. Very, very cube-y on the outside, but the inside is surprisingly airy. Go inside after the jump. More »
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Nothing warms the hearts and soothes the soul at holiday time like a hot laser slicing through your pain receptors. That's why we put together this list of the top seven torture scenes from science fiction, including one that spawned one of the lamest action figures in the world. (We didn't include the Star Wars Christmas Special, even though it features Bea Arthur singing, because it's only unintentional torture.) Real torture after the jump! More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=333072&view=rss&microfeed=true A new Spanish film features four rival scientists struggling to solve logic puzzles before the walls of the room they're trapped in squish them into jelly. Fermat's Room combines elements of Pi (brilliant new untried math theorems) with Cube (deadly rooms that'll kill you unless you figure out the puzzle) in this new movie that'll have you wishing you paid attention back in algebra class. If the classroom was about to kill us, you can bet we would have. Fermat's Room [Variety] More »
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